Get Your Paid Search On, If You Dare!

I did not mention the paid search part of marketing in earlier chapters, and that is simply because it is something that doesn’t need a lot of preparation.

A paid search is when you pay a search engine company to provide a location for your product’s web site. You may notice that when you do a Google search for something, you might see a few entries hovering above the search results. Figure 10-5 shows a search that I did for “Dog Food.”

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Figure 10-5. What you will see if you run a search on “Dog Food.” Note the ads before the first entries, and the ones in the right sidebar.

What you are seeing in Figure ...

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