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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). Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. Cost per action (CPA).

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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). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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

Eric Greenspan

Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. We all get emails daily offering various products and we do buy them from time to time, me included. Some affiliates will sell anything to make a buck. Thanks in advance.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. Do you have any issue pulling information from the search engines?

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

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. We have spam filters for our email. If we continue our success we will have strong competition. So why not put up those Halloween Costume ads when I’m on Facebook? Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then? Why do you believe Ad.ly

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