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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. Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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

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How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? 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.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last couple of years. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last two years. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully took the firm public in 199, and ended up selling to Anderson Media, to provide Walmart.com's music service.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). 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. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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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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