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Infographic: Top 10 B2B Paid Search Mistakes

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If your Google AdWords campaign isn’t generating the type of lead volume, lead quality, or ROI that it should, it’s highly likely that the campaign is suffering from common missteps that plague many B2B paid search programs. Based on our experience, here are the most common paid search mistakes made by B2B marketers.

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

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The lack of an appropriate and complete tracking system is one of the most common errors, or omissions, that B2B marketers make in setting up a paid search program. The foundation of a strong search campaign is knowing what you want to achieve. Your search campaign should measure: 1. It’s easy to see why.

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Video Tech Company Leverages SEM to Drive Enterprise Leads

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In 2015, JW Player piloted a small-scale, in-house SEM program on Google AdWords to gauge the potential efficacy of using search advertising to drive qualified leads for its enterprise video platform. What I’ve appreciated in working with Spear is that they share that same ROI focus – which you don’t always see in search agencies.

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5 Reasons to Include Branded Terms in Your Paid Search Campaign

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A client writes: “If we include our company and product names as keywords in our PPC (paid search) campaign, won’t we simply be cannibalizing our SEO effort, i.e. paying for clicks that we otherwise would have generated for free?” Answer: It’s true that you may have generated Web traffic from the same people anyway, but there [.].

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An Accident of Timing: The Case for Always On Marketing

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Cue the advent of search marketing and Google AdWords.). Think Google AdWords, paid social advertising on LinkedIn and Facebook, Content Syndication , account-targeted display ads. Well now the pendulum has swung yet again, and the same experts are all waving the flag of outbound marketing.

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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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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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It seems only yesterday that “PPC advertising” was synonymous with Google AdWords. Google still dominates search advertising – at last count, it handles roughly two-thirds of all Web search queries , a market share that won’t be decreasing any time soon. Its top 25 US-based search advertisers alone spent more than $1.3