Key Takeaways
What’s more likely, someone searching for your small business and some other cash rich business buying the ad space and stealing your customer.
Or a small business buying the keyword for a large competitor and stealing their business?
As a small business,I would prefer the world in which I can bid on my larger competitors key words than not be allowed. How many small web apps are basically wrappers with a better UX on top of standard AWS services?
As a result, I’m losing sales — people keep telling me they can’t find my site directly. The only current solution seems to be paying Google $5–$10 per click to show up in search.
I would scour the Google Search Console to see if there's just something off about your pages. Totally could not be this, but it could be!
Seems surprising if you have a bunch of third-party links that you wouldn't rank higher.
Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201637 - 19 days ago (25 comments)
But it's extremely expensive. I am paying sometimes $20-40 per click. Just to sell a $5 product.
It's insane.
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