SoCal CTO
MAY 1, 2007
I just saw a Forbes article talking about Google Hell - getting placed in the secondary index. Bottom line - if you are basing your business on high rankings via organic search, there's pretty incredible risk. It doesn't prevent Google Hell, but it certainly reduces the chances.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 9, 2011
5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. The single largest source of growth is organic search. We get referring site traffic.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.
socalTECH
JUNE 7, 2017
According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP said the new product provides local businesses with a mobile responsive, content-rich website, supported by a full range of SEO services designed to improve rankings on Google and other search engines.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 4, 2021
What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 28, 2020
In addition, in this new digital first world, nearly every type of purchase from what's for lunch, to where's the nearest ATM, starts with a 'near me' search on Google, Yelp, or one of the many other discovery networks.
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