Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. How do people drive SEO growth? Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. We're the first on the market, and it's completely insane that in 2020, everything is organic and this segment of the market is not. We have a device which is a machine with different hoses and handles which you use for different procedures.

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

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APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through affiliate deals? Do you have a customer referral program?

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. It does not happen.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

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JULY 16, 2013

What you really want to know is which campaigns drove “bottom of funnel activities” such as: Purchases, newsletter signups, subscribers, comments and so forth in the same way you’d be tracking this on Google Analytics for your SEO / SEM campaigns, direct referrals, etc.

Marketing 307

Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285