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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. Here are some best practices to optimize your results from SEM campaigns: 1.

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How to Avoid Underspending and Overspending Your SEM Budget

QuanticMind

Balancing your SEM budget is one of the major challenges of marketing management today. It can also frustrate the leaders who put you in charge of SEM in the first place. It can also frustrate the leaders who put you in charge of SEM in the first place. Numerous factors can contribute to poor SEM budget spend.

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11 Expert PPC Guides, Tips and Techniques (and One Rant)

Webbiquity

With all of the hype surrounding inbound and content marketing, it’s easy to underrate the continued importance of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, a.k.a. search engine marketing. Organic search experiments can take weeks to show results. SEM changes take effect in a matter of minutes. •

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How to Practice SEO and Accomplish a Strong ROI

Golden Spiral

When discovering which keywords to use throughout your search engine marketing (SEM) strategy, you need to uncover the keywords’ value for the potential customer and your company. A starting place for KPI writing will be your month-over-month or year-over-year statistics. The click-through rate (CTR) is 4%.

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SEO vs. PPC: When to Optimize and When to Pay for Traffic

Hubspot

Is it better to pursue an organic-first approach and find consumers through search engine rankings, or is it better to invest in an advertisement at the top of a keyword results page? Just as you turn to your favorite search engine to look up a new marketing acronym or where to get good pizza, so do your consumers.

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SMX East 2017 Day 1 – Online-to-Offline, Shopping, Display

QuanticMind

Reporting & Analytics: “Must-Have Reports for Search Advertisers” by Bradley Giddens. O2O: “Offline Attribution in SEM: Getting From Good To Great” by Aaron Levy. Some statistics about online-to-offline conversions: 90% of retail sales take place at physical storefronts.

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26 Awesome Search Engine Marketing Guides

Webbiquity

Search engine marketing (SEM) accounts for roughly three out of every eight dollars spent on digital advertising , with Google alone commanding 31% of the market. So how can search engine marketers maximize their click-through rate (CTR) and conversions from paid search?