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Failing at Paid Search? Maybe You’re Just Measuring It Wrong.

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Google, for example, provides basic tracking services – impressions, clicks, cost per click – automatically and at no charge as part of their default set-up. Excerpted from the Spear white paper: “ Top 10 B2B Paid Search Mistakes: Why Your Google Adwords™ Campaign Isn’t Working and What to Do About It.” It’s easy to see why.

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7 Creative Demand Gen Tactics to Drive Trade Show Booth Traffic

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Plus, as a physical medium, direct mail provides creative options to drive booth traffic and track response – for example: “be one of the first 50 people to bring this postcard with you to our booth and get a free [insert free gift here].” (Tip: Google AdWords – place ads on AdWords using the show name (and variations) as keywords.

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5 Simple PPC Landing Page Changes that May Improve Your Quality Score

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As with most things, Google doesn’t disclose the precise algorithm by which quality score is calculated, but they do identify contributing factors – for example: expected click-through rate, the relevance of ad copy to the search query, and (notably) what Google calls “landing page experience”. Promoting transparency and trustworthiness.

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26 Must-Have Negative Keywords for B2B PPC Campaigns

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Conversion rates, for example, the rate at which clicks convert to leads (and a key metric for B2B campaigns), can be improved significantly by reducing the number of irrelevant clicks. For example, “enterprise” might be a negative keyword for a small business ad group, but not for your product line as a whole.).

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B2B Display Ads with Demographic Targeting: Why Doesn’t Google Do This?

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Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase announced its “ Company Targeted Advertising ,” a new platform that allows B2B marketers to target online display advertising either to specific companies (by name) or those that meet specific corporate attributes (company size for example, or vertical industries).

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An Email is Not a Campaign: the Case for Integrated Marketing

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One prime example of this – and something we see too often in our work with tech companies – is the tendency to execute campaigns in very one-off, siloed fashion. Sometimes this is because different groups “own” different campaigns (the Web team owning SEM , for example) and so those programs tend to be managed independently.

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Broad Match is Not Your Friend: Using Match Types to Get More from Your PPC Campaign

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Selective and proactive use of match types (broad, phrase, exact) is a key technique in optimizing the performance of Google AdWords™ campaigns. If you enter your keyword surrounded by quotation marks, your ad will appear only when a user searches only on the phrase “network software,” for example, with the words in that order.

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