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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” 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). Marty Zwilling.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Marty Zwilling.

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MomentFeed Partners With Location3 Media

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Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the startup which is developing software to provide analytics on such things as check-ins and customer interaction at retail locations, said this week that it has partnered with digital marketing firm Location3 Media.

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10 Ways to Ensure Creative Ideas and Results at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Develop habits that increase creativity. A key habit to develop is one of asking multiple questions that push the limits of your thinking, rather than taking the first idea that comes to mind and running with it. Evaluate ideas for pluses, potential, and concerns (PPC).

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. In 2001, I started ABCSearch, which as been in the PPC space for a number of years. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. I was simply BLOWN AWAY by the quality of innovation by 3rd-party Twitter developers. Just ask MySpace.

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