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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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5 Ways the Wrong Domain Name Will Impact Your SEO

Tech.Co

Ward, O’Reilly author of The SEO Battlefield and CEO of CircleClick Media , said punctuation, top level domains, and even spellings can impact the ease of getting found online. Do Your Research. This is also important in the case of radio advertisements,” Ward said. Your domain name is part of your brand. For example, About.Me

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC).

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

Pay Per Click advertising. To learn how to advertise on Google to get traffic to your website or offline business read “ Advanced Google Adwords ” by Brad Geddes. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The best blogs to follow for search engine optimization are SEO Moz , SEO Book and Search Engine Land.

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. There is still a place for paid advertising. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites, such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. There is still a place for paid advertising. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters.