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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.” Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud).

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! Summary notes, as always, provide below.