Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Transformify uses powerful ML ( machine learning algorithm) to suggest those profiles that are a good match to the employers. This technology is applied in the matchmaking process in order to get the best match in skill relevance, work history, soft skills, and other competencies.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” PPC vs SEO — What’s the difference? The most notable difference between PPC advertising and organic digital advertising efforts such as SEO (search engine optimization) or organic social media marketing is how the cost is determined. PPC or SEO?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Young Entrepreneurs and Digital Marketing Are a Match Made In Heaven. In this article by Drip Digital, explaining what Digital Marketing is , we can see clearly that it is not rocket science, but rather it is quite simple. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing. Lead generation. Content marketing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If This week they answered the question by “punting.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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). Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In order to match the best Digital Marketing Channel Mix to your business objectives, it is important to have a good understanding of each of the channels available, how they work, and how to best leverage them. Do you know how to intervene at the moment they are most likely to make a purchase? So, let’s go back to basics, shall we?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

You can increase your influence—and charge higher fees—if the quality of the presentation matches the data within. SEM and SEO templates. Tip: Always adjust the color pattern to match clients’—or your own—corporate colors. Let’s say your company invests a lot in Instagram content as well as in SEO. Supermetrics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Not surprisingly, Google Images is the largest of these systems, allowing users to either type in a term or expression or to upload an image and let the network search for a visual match. Other companies are moving in this direction, and recommendation engines are becoming more and more common. Search is personalized.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

SpyFu is a great tool that allows you to compare your own SEO/SEM tactics against those of your competitors. By allowing a peek at the competition’s most profitable keywords, you can tailor your own to match or exceed their efforts. The tool is simple to use and the results are intuitively displayed for simple analysis.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix? That means a SEO friendly site and domain name to match your image so people find you before they find any potential detractor(s).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

They think broad matching on their key terms will take care of the tail. The reality is the best broad matches will pick up 500 or a 1000 queries, the tail has hundreds of thousands. * It is important to know these are not match typed in any way, these are actual search queries of google.com users.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel. I put in place a couple ad groups per campaign, two ads per ad group, and about 30-50 broad match keywords per ad group. Week 2 - Quality Score woes. Not good.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

Here's how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel. I put in place a couple ad groups per campaign, two ads per ad group, and about 30-50 broad match keywords per ad group. Week 2 - Quality Score woes. Not good.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

If you’re unable to find a URL that matches your small business name, you can consider changing the name or finding an alternative URL that includes the name – or or one that complements the name. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Use a responsive design.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Although not every single person that buys from your company will match these personas to a tee, establishing a sense of who you want to engage with will help you refine your messaging to speak clearly to the type of person that you want your company to attract.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

SEO is simple. To most managers (and I absolutely include myself in this group) SEO is an opaque mess. This doesn’t diminish the importance of understanding the basics of SEO, nor does it excuse you from doing your homework and learning the basics. Related posts: 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I like reporting by Page Title (hopefully you are good at SEO and have taken care of this). Paid media (PPC, Display etc), Earned media(Social Media), and Free media (SEO, Referring Sites etc). The SEM team, who actually spend all the paid search marketing budget day-to-day. The first tab is focused on the SEM team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you’re unable to find a URL that matches your business name, you can consider changing the name or finding an alternative URL that includes the name – or or one that complements the name. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Use a responsive design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

These are subjective elements, but there are specifics that even a computer program can evaluate to set your ranking, and thus determine whether your site is alive and a good match to a specific search request. The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

My emphasis was on getting Analysts to move outside the paid search silo, look more broadly at search engine marketing, and to not stop at keywords but rather dive into astonishingly important data elements like Ad Groups, Matched Query Types and more. 2: Campaign Optimization: Matched Search Queries Analysis.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

  This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   You can’t, or at least shouldn’t, have one without the other. last year to 1.9B

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

  This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   You can’t, or at least shouldn’t, have one without the other. last year to 1.9B

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Social Network SEM B2C Social Media 48

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

  This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   This matches our experience at Return Path , where a number of our largest clients are the biggest social networks.   You can’t, or at least shouldn’t, have one without the other. last year to 1.9B

Social Network 48

Social Network SEM B2C Social Media 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

SEM Rush – Find profitable key words. Ahrefs – Combination tool that allows you to work on your own SEO and spy on competitors. Raven Tools – Suite of SEO and online marketing tools. Further Reading: SEO Category on Duct Tape Marketing. Six SEO Rules for 2016. AgoraPulse – Full social media management tool.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Rand is a well-known expert in search engine optimization (SEO) and digital marketing, with deep insights into the evolving landscape of Google search and the rise of the zero-click internet. 02:11] How Has Zero Click Impacted Search [06:33] How Should SEO Professionals Adapt? [08:34] 08:34] How Do Content-Reliant Businesses Survive?

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