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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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 Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per action (CPA). Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud).