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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). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). This is a tough business.

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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). Cost per click (CPC). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. Cost per click (CPC). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.