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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. Their computers then merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised.

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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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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

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We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We're putting more focus on the consumer, to create great destination sites in high potential, niche markets.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. Paid Product Metrics. Free Product Metrics. Conversion Rate.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. Paid Product Metrics. Free Product Metrics. Conversion Rate.