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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

Get the answers to these questions and many others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on search engine marketing (SEM) from the past year. Sami Carroll shows why branded terms are important in both SEO and SEM efforts, along with tactics for maximizing results with a limited budget. What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?

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(Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009

Webbiquity

Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. So in case you missed any of these, here are almost 100 of the best blog posts and articles covering social media strategy and tactics, measurement, monitoring, research, pitfalls to avoid, policies, tools and more from 2009. by SEM ClubHouse.

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 1

Webbiquity

What’s the real optimal cost per lead for your SEM program? Patricio Robles reports on a study which showed that contrary to other research indicating that paid search results get 25-30% of all search query clicks, the actual number is closer to 15%. How can you improve conversion rates?

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. Tags: lead gen demand marketing SEO appointments b2b SEM.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Search Engine Marketing

WebMarketCentral

What's the real the optimal cost per lead for your SEM program? Researchers: paid search ads don't get as many clicks as believed by Econsultancy Patricio Robles reports on a study which showed that contrary to other research indicating that paid search results get 25-30% of all search query clicks, the actual number is closer to 15%.

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. Outbound: Telemarketing, Email, Events).

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Can social media be the new white hat SEO technique?

Biznology

Besides, back in late 2006 (and as late as 2009), Search Engine Optimization was considered to be snake oil, especially since Google was obviously omnipresent and had compensated for silly things such as ALT, Description, and Meta tags, right? Well, I will have case studies out the wazoo and we'll go through how this all works.