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The Ultimate Guide to SEM (Search Engine Marketing)

Hubspot

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is one of the most effective ways to grow your business and reach new customers. SEM, or search engine marketing, is using paid advertising to ensure that your business's products or services are visible in search engine results pages (SERPs). What is SEM?

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How Your Web Page Speed Effects Your SEO and Adwords Performance

Stevens & Tate

How Will Google’s Speed Update Impact Your AdWords Account? The Quality Score algorithm, the algorithm that determines how much users pay per click to serve an ad on the Search Network, is heavily influenced by landing page experience. Fetch on Google – allows users to see how crawlers view the site and adjust accordingly.

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Inside Adwords: Exploring The Differences Between Smart Display Campaigns & Custom Intent Campaigns

Stevens & Tate

It’s why Google AdWords continues to be popular with advertisers. Let’s take a closer look inside AdWords to discover some of their newer PPC options, including their smart display ads and their custom intent ads. Inside AdWords’ Smart Display Ads Smart display ads are ads that are automated by Google.

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4 AdWords Tips Your Small Business Can’t Live Without

BenchmarkONE

Investing in Google AdWords can be great for your ROI — if you know what you’re doing. Google owns an impressive — and unsurprising — 74% of the search engine market (the second place leader, Chinese search engine Baidu, owns just 11%). Read on and start getting more out of your AdWords efforts.

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8 Actionable Tips to Optimize Your AdWords Performance Today

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The fact that Google receives the most global ad revenue every year tells advertisers that AdWords reigns as the ultimate acquisition channel. It also highlights that competition is stiff in search engine marketing. As marketers, we’re always looking for a way to get ahead of the competition. Courtesy of Evergage.

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Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

QuanticMind

If you are a performance marketer (like me) you would agree that we often pay too much attention to our set of top keywords. However, many marketers are still relying on the bid optimization tools that Google and Bing provide, even those with decent SEM budgets (~$50k). The good news, though, is that marketers have options now.

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Best Practices

Webbiquity

Search engine marketing (SEM) can be a powerful lead generation source, or a complete waste of money. B2B marketers often get less from their SEM programs than possible by overlooking basic but critical steps. Your goals—how many leads or sales are you planning to drive from search marketing?