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6 SEO KPIs Every Search Marketer Should Know

Hubspot

Aja Frost, the head of SEO content at HubSpot, says, "Any metric—in isolation—can be misleading. For example, HubSpot's SEO team used to obsess over organic traffic. For HubSpot, we track content leads and user signups in addition to organic traffic. Cost-per-click (CPC). Cost per acquisition (CPA).

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How to Determine a Bidding Strategy for Different Types of Ads

Hubspot

In the video below, HubSpot Academy reviews how to build your first Google Ads campaign and explains how the Google Ads auction system works. Manual Cost Per Click (CPC). With manual CPC, you select the price that you're willing to pay for each click. Target Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). Enhanced CPC.

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How to Align Inbound and Paid Media Strategies to Hit Your MQL Goals

SmartBug Media

Here are some examples of metrics that focus on inbound and paid media alignment: If you are tracking at a 50,000-foot view, you may be measuring the number of qualified leads coming from paid media, the conversion rate from lead to opportunity or customer, and the cost per acquisition (CPA).

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How Do Your Google AdWords Metrics Compare to Industry Averages? [New Benchmark Data]

Hubspot

The study reveals a ton of helpful industry-specific benchmarks for both search and display ads, including average clickthrough rate (CTR), average cost-per-click (CPC), average conversion rate (CVR), and average cost-per-action (CPA). Average Cost-per-Click (CPC). The average CPC across all industries is $2.32

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The Ultimate Guide to PPC

Hubspot

This means more clicks and a greater chance of conversion.” - Laura Mittelmann, Paid Acquisition at HubSpot. Cost-per-click (CPC) is the amount that an advertiser pays for each click on your ad. CPC acts as your bid in an auction that determines where your ad will be placed. You can set a CPC for each ad group that you create.

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How to Save Up to 50% on Your PPC With Quality Score

Hubspot

In 2009, Craig Danuloff crunched some numbers to show that a Quality Score of 10 could save you 30% on cost per click, or CPC. I used this data to re-run the calculations and see how much a Quality Score higher than 5 saves you on CPC compared to the average advertiser. Now, a Quality Score of 6 decreases your CPC by 16.7%.

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How to Optimize Your PPC Campaign Under a Tight Budget

Hubspot

The answer is, you should be paying less attention to volume metrics (like number of clicks and number of impressions) and more attention to performance metrics like cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-acquisition (CPA), and conversion rate. Connect with HubSpot :

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