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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). Marty Zwilling.

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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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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). Here the advertiser pays only if a customer has been delivered to a website and takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form.

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Funding a Startup from Advertising is a Vain Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). Here the advertiser pays only if a customer has been delivered to a website and takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form.

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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). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

I'll close with a custom attribution model into which you can insert all your biases – sorry, I mean expertise – and get something better than good to make incremental progress from where you are today. Customized/Personalized Attribution Model. Last AdWords Click Attribution Model. Linear Attribution Model.

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

Occam's Razor

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps. Or compressing my experience into custom reports and advanced segments I've shared. You spend money on SEO and PPC.