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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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 Search Engine Marketing (SEM). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page of search results for widgets. 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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