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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Tracking and performance reporting. Cost per action (CPA).

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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. Santa Barbara born companies such as DoubleClick, ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick are all leaders in the space (the last three are all now owned by ValueClick who’s founder is a major investor in Make It Work).

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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. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Tracking and performance reporting. For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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