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SEM Mystery: The Case of the Missing Leads

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Originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in December 2008. Sugar wasn’t going to like this, and as the old saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman with an underproducing SEM campaign. I tried running the numbers by campaign, by CTR, by landing page—everything seemed random. “Care for a drink? Tweet This!

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Web Marketing Research, Part 1

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Eyeing Prices as Search Keeps Growing by eMarketer This article summarizes a recent SEMPO study detailing "multiple reasons for SEM spending growth, including advertiser demand, rising keyword and pay-per-click campaign costs, small-to-midsized business SEM use and increased behavioral and demographic targeting."

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Looking Back at 300: Top 10 Posts

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. #10: The 8 Layers of a B2B Web Marketing Plan , October 8, 2008 The most recent post to make this list presents B2B marketing as a series of concentric layers, with SEO at the core then moving outward from highly measurable online direct response tactics to broader brand advertising. #9:

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3 More Tips for Optimizing SEM Campaigns

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The previous post on this topic advised search engine marketers to bid on their own company name and branded terms, keep keyword lists clean and cross-pollinate SEO and SEM efforts. Here are three more tips for optimizing results from SEM programs such as Google AdWords. Tags: Web Marketing. Keep your content network clean.

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Looking Back at 400: Top 10 Posts

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10: Best of 2007: Website Design , February 4, 2008 Reviews of articles and tools on website design, including a couple of pieces from the brilliant and frequently cited Stoney deGeyter. Social Tagging Sites, Part 4: B2B Traffic Building , May 15, 2007 Original research on the quantitative impact of social bookmarking on b2b site traffic.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

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5% of Americans had heard of Twitter in 2008; that figure rose to 87% last year. And email messages that include at least one social sharing option generate a more than 30 percent higher click-through rate (CTR) than emails with no social sharing options. B2B Marketing: Red-Headed Step-Child of SEM World? by aimClear.