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6 Tactics For Overcoming The High Cost Of Clicks In B2B PPC

Online Marketing Institute

Home Members Only News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google & Search First Time Here? In the last MarketingSherpa Search Marketing Benchmark Guide (2009), data indicated that the average CPC for B2B lead generation efforts was $3.33, vs. $0.78 for B2C retailers and $1.93 for B2C lead generators.

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Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website?

Online Marketing Institute

If you were to look at my company’s Google Webmaster Tools (screenshot below) you would see that most of the links to our site are to our blog. I typically recommend that a company set up their blog on a subdirectory of their site (www.sitename.com/blog), so that links are attributed to belong deep within the root domain.

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The 8 Layers of a B2B Web Marketing Plan

WebMarketCentral

Since Google is the dominant search engine , it's AdWords search program is the place to start. Level 5: Banner Advertising Unlike search marketing and targeted network ads, which are priced on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis, banner advertising is sold on a cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) basis.