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Will Your SEO Strategy Be Impacted By Google’s Removal of Right-Hand-Side Ads on SERPs?

Content Standard

Clicks Are about to Get a Whole Lot More Expensive. With less room on SERPs for ads, brands are likely to start battling it out over the top 3-4 ad spots on SERPs, competing over keywords and driving up the cost per click. It’s gonna get ugly.” ” Did I just compare Google Ads to The Sims?

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Will Your SEO Strategy Be Impacted By Google’s Removal of Right-Hand-Side Ads on SERPs?

Content Standard

Clicks Are about to Get a Whole Lot More Expensive. With less room on SERPs for ads, brands are likely to start battling it out over the top 3-4 ad spots on SERPs, competing over keywords and driving up the cost per click. It’s gonna get ugly.” ” Did I just compare Google Ads to The Sims?

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SMX Advanced Day 1 – Google + Bing Keynotes, Conversion Optimization, Audience Targeting and Social + PPC

QuanticMind

This panel opens with discussion of exact match close variants – a functionality that debuted on Google in 2012 to allow phrase and/or exact match keywords, became mandatory in 2014 (requiring advertisers to use negative keywords) – and most recently had exact match close variants announced in March 2017. The Mad Scientists of Paid Search.

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

QuanticMind

A recent case study showed one merchant recorded +71% clickthrough rate (CTR), +76% conversion rate (CVR) and +22% return on ad spend (ROAS). Last year, the Carousel extension went through a limited holiday beta, and participating merchants saw a 10-13% CTR lift with no observed cost-per-click (CPC) increase.

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How to Promote Your Content Using Paid, Earned & Owned Media

Hubspot

Outbrain reports a 6% clickthrough rate across its network of 100,000 publishers. Cost per click can vary between $0.25 If you pay for native newsletter distribution, your rate can be a part of a broader sponsorship package, cost per click, cost per action, or cost per lead.

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Become an Expert on Google Shopping, Chapter 1: Google Shopping, Then and Now

QuanticMind

Now that right-rail ads are a thing of the past, PLAs are arguably the biggest winner in paid search, with top placement on search engine results pages (SERP) and massive clickthrough rate (CTR). PLAs for Google Shopping have only grown in popularity – digital agency Merkle estimates that by 2014, PLAs accounted for 20% of all Google clicks.

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How to Use Facebook for Business: 25 Facebook Marketing Tips and Tricks

Hubspot

To add milestones, click on the "Timeline" section of your Page, and click the "Offer, Event +" option in the page update composer near the top of your page. Facebook added a very handy feature in December 2014 : the option to place a simple call-to-action button at the top of your Facebook Page. Choose a call-to-action button.