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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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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

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. 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? Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market?

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web.

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