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We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organicsearch. We’ve got a very search-friendly site; we are starting to see what Google calls ‘authority’ for terms like ‘list’ and ‘top’ and ‘best’. We haven’t had a down week for organicsearch traffic all year.”.
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.
And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organicsearch it’s a HUGE business (as you know). See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.
It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organicsearch results or to get covered by a major blog site.
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