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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. With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale).

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. It's the eBay of professional documents.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple.

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