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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). Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. Cost per action (CPA).

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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). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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Creating A Better Digital Marketing Strategy For Your Business

Tech Zulu Event

It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them. You could raise your profile by simply advertising cheap shirts on a Google PPC campaign, but that’s only going to get you so far. But what exactly does that entail? Kill Unsuccessful Channels.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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 Search Engine Marketing (SEM). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. We have spam filters for our email. Why do you think this form of advertising will be effective?

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