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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Page 3: Competition. Tempus Fugit.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Campaign setup and ad copy writing. There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. Everybody gains.

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