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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per action (CPA).

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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. Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? It's pretty much been all organic.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. 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). Search engine marketing (SEM). Viral marketing. Streaming video.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Pay per click (PPC). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results.