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Seven Expert Search Engine Marketing Guides

Webbiquity

Done properly, search engine marketing (a.k.a. SEM, paid search, PPC) is a powerful complement to SEO and an effective tactic on its own. How can test to increase conversion rates while reducing the cost per conversion? How to quadruple a conversion rate by Google Website Optimizer Blog.

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 1

Webbiquity

How can you improve conversion rates? Keep your search marketing program growing? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in some of the best posts on search engine marketing of last year. Finding The Optimal Cost-Per-Lead by Search Engine Land. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

What are the best ways to reduce the bounce rate from landing pages? What’s a “conversion path&# and how can you use that knowledge to increase conversion rates? 10 tips for extending paid search growth by iMedia Connection. 7 Steps to Improving Conversion Rates by Search Engine Guide.

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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?

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SEM Mystery: The Case of the Missing Leads

Webbiquity

Door-busting CTRs, conversion rates as respectable as that lady always sitting in the front row at church, nice ROI. Sure, the CTRs were decent, but the conversion rate was uglier than the business end of a sharpee. That, and dodging bullets in the rough-and-tumble world of search engine marketing.

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B2B Marketing Thought Leadership: Tom Pick

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I started experimenting with social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us and StumbeUpon for B2B marketing in early 2007. Everyone loves search engine marketing (SEM) because it's so measurable: impressions, clicks, conversions, conversion rate, cost per click — it's all there on one nice screen.

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Book Review: Website Optimization

WebMarketCentral

Author Andrew King, president of Internet marketing firm Web Site Opimization, LLC has really done it. In Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets , he gives away all the secrets of creating a website and search marketing program that effectively sells products and services.