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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. 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.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Tracking and performance reporting. If you do all these things right as a search results advertiser, you will make money from selling your product.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did. It all made sense.