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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per click (CPC). Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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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. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. 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. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. Cost per click (CPC).

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google.

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