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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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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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). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per action (CPA).

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

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Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. For anyone with any PPC in their background, I’d expect some discussion around Quality Scores and landing page optimization testing. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. Google SEO.

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