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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

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One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Advertisers do not pay for each ad view, but only when the ad is clicked on.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Advertisers do not pay for each ad view, but only when the ad is clicked on.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

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To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. It helps to understand how online advertising really works. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

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We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. With app marketing, instead of an advertisement, we're showing and application ad to mobile users.

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Savings.com: The California Internet Tax Law and Unintended Consequences

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This morning, we spoke to Thomas Swalla , the COO of Santa Monica-based Savings.com , the online coupon and deals site, to talk a little bit about how the move has impact at one of Southern California's many, many affiliate-dependent Internet businesses--and how the move might result in lost jobs, and the firm moving out of state.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. plus range.

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