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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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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. Cost per action (CPA). Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. If this were your data, start with questioning your PPC landing page strategy and then move to looking at your top SEO landing pages, and then look at bounce rates and next page analysis for those that stay. Your SEO team can do the begging, if required. :).

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

MonetizePros explains the benefits of affiliate networks well… To over-simplify, the network exists to: Match up merchants and affiliates; Handle the administrative aspects of an affiliate-merchant relationship; Protect affiliates. Try asking your affiliates… “How is the campaign performing compared to similar campaigns?”.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). If you are doing SEO then you are likely paying for someone.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Integrate” is part of the company name, but is also meaningful to how the agency works and approaches all client campaigns. This might sound stupid, but I simply named my company a combination of my name and my job description: “Micah Fraim, CPA”. #21 – How We Work & Our Approach. Image Credit: Allie Danziger.

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