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SEM Mystery: The Case of the Missing Leads

Webbiquity

Originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in December 2008. Sugar wasn’t going to like this, and as the old saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman with an underproducing SEM campaign. Tags: Search Engine Marketing CTR Google AdWords ROI SEM. “Care for a drink? Or something like that. Tweet This!

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Best of 2008: SEM Landing Pages

WebMarketCentral

Here are a few of the best posts about SEM landing page design from last year. Tags: Web Marketing. Good and bad landing page examples by CDF Networks Chad Frederiksen gets right to the point with this brief but helpful post on what separates bad landing page design (e.g.,

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. HubSpot 's survey, made up of companies of all sizes, shows that in 2008 the average marketing spend from b2b companies on outbound telemarketing efforts to be 12%. Their study covers a much wider spectrum of b2b companies and sizes, and reports 21% invest in similar outbound efforts in 2008.

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Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics

WebMarketCentral

Even features unique to AdWords often "migrate" to other services over time, so search engine marketing (SEM) mastery begins with AdWords. tags: Google AdWords, search engine marketing, SEM, Yahoo! tags: Google AdWords, search engine marketing, SEM, Yahoo! Tags: Web Marketing.

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Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing

WebMarketCentral

Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? What steps should take to optimize SEM campaigns—and which mistakes should you avoid? Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008. How do you write a killer search ad?

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

tags: social media marketing Facebook fan pages SEO? Twitter HubSpot Rick Burnes Inside Facebook Justin Smith Mark Walsh Jim Connolly LEADSExplorer Pravda on Media and Technology Kfir Pravda Social Media Today Martin Edic Disqus IntenseDebate BackType icerocket tags: social media marketing Facebook fan pages SEO? Social Tagging.

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Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Flowchart by PPC Blog One of the most bookmarkable posts ever on the topic of search engine marketing, this handy chart guides you through creating an SEM campaign from strategy and keyword research through keyword grouping and ad copy writing to measurement, analysis and optimization.

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