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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” 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).

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. Now back to the revenue realities.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. Until you get a million page-views per month, your revenue will be negligible, and advertisers won’t be interested in your site. Now back to the revenue realities.

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7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns

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To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Here are some stats: With their regular ad spend being quite high, their retargeting added an additional 15% in revenue. Wanna know how they did it?

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue.

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