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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.” Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). Marty Zwilling.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). Advertisers normally prefer CPC, since they don’t like to pay when you ignore their ad.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC). Advertisers normally prefer CPC, since they don’t like to pay when you ignore their ad.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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Cost per click (CPC). For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per action (CPA). Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud).

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised.