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Covario: Paid Search Spending Up

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San Diego-based Covario , a provider of paid search and search engine optimization software, reported this week that its analysis has found that major U.S. advertisers have upped their spending on paid search by almost 8 percent in Q3. Tags: covario paid search engine advertising. READ MORE>>.

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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). Tracking and performance reporting.

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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). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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The Search Agency: Smartphones, Tablets Now One-Third Of Google Clicks

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According to Los Angeles-based search marketing company The Search Agency , more than one third of the total clicks on Google are now being driven by smartphones and tablets. The company''s report found that click volumes on smartphones increased by over 50 percent, and clicks increased by 63.4 percent year over year.

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WebVisible: Small Business Advertising Increases, But Slowly

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Irvine-based WebVisible , which provides local search marketing and ad placement for small businesses, reports that its latest quarterly advertising report shows that search advertising spending by small business is increasing, but is doing so more slowly that recent quarters. READ MORE>>.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results.

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Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

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Henry Blodget , was once the darling of Wall Street covering Internet securities at Merrill Lynch’s and reporting on businesses such as Infospace, Internet Capital Group and Amazon. In 2002 Blodget’s salary was $12 million. Ultimately GoTo.com went with Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith Barney and U.S.