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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. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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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.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. This is a tough business. Face reality.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. This is a tough business. Face reality.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.

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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. 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. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. What is Scour? People are so used to the Google mold.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Pay per click (PPC).

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