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How to Save Up to 50% on Your PPC With Quality Score

Hubspot

In my experience, looking at thousands of Google AdWords accounts and billions in combined spend, there are two metrics that correlate most strongly with success: Account Activity: You get out what you put in. And it makes total sense -- Google’s main goal is to keep users happy so they keep using Google, and keep clicking results.

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Why You Might Want to Be More Negative in Your Marketing

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Does Google Hate Small Businesses? For a great example of using multiple villains in your marketing, just check out Career Builder's 2009 Super Bowl commercial, brought to my attention via Graeme Newell and 602 Communications. 13 Hilarious Examples of Truly Awful Stock Photography. Your Mom Hates This Blog Post.

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6 Tactics For Overcoming The High Cost Of Clicks In B2B PPC

Online Marketing Institute

Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google & Search First Time Here? In the last MarketingSherpa Search Marketing Benchmark Guide (2009), data indicated that the average CPC for B2B lead generation efforts was $3.33, vs. $0.78 for B2C retailers and $1.93 for B2C lead generators.

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7 Common (and Dangerous) Misconceptions About SEO

Hubspot

What are the differences among Google+, Google''s +1s, and Google Authorship when it comes to search? With the release of Hummingbird , Google is getting much better at understanding full queries in addition to just single keywords, which means placing your keywords at the very front of your title may not be as important.

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Looking Back at 400: Top 10 Posts

WebMarketCentral

9: How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy , March 4, 2009 A summary of research from MarketingSherpa , Eloqua's Steve Woods , and green marketer Lorna Li on how marketers should approach social media strategically. Based on recent data, the average CTR for b2b AdWords programs remains in the 1.1%-1.3%