The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post. Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges.

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Martech

JANUARY 23, 2023

Search marketing is a very big deal. Any way you slice it, it amounts to millions of searches per minute , all day, every day. Search is a huge component of digital marketing and ecommerce. We’ll look at challenges facing marketers and best practices to meet them and the future of search marketing.

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is one of the most effective ways to grow your business and reach new customers. While it's critical you employ organic strategies to attract traffic over the long-term, sometimes, you can't properly compete on the SERPs without putting money behind it -- and that's where SEM comes into play.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 27, 2022

This is why strategies like search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) play such an important role in digital marketing. Moreover, both strategies rely heavily on good content, which is why the three should work seamlessly together to create a bigger impact.

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Ahrefs

AUGUST 24, 2023

There are two ways to do SEM. You can pay for ads to show up in the search engine’s paid results or optimize your pages to show up in organic results. And you can do both too. That said, there’s … Read more ›

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Online marketing is evolving each day with newer trends and challenges. But thankfully, marketing isn’t a lonely ride. There are several internet marketing experts and online marketing professionals who have thrived in the recent times. Table of Contents 1. Social Media Marketing + Michael A.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 1, 2016

On May 24, Chinese search engine Baidu made significant changes to the configuration of its paid advertising, including limiting the amount of ads that appear on the search engine results page. These changes will have lasting implications for B2B marketers. The advertising on the right has been eliminated.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing is an advertising model where advertisers pay a fee each time a user clicks one of their ads. LinkedIn Ads is typically the best paid social media channel for B2B while many online marketers go to Google Ads for search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. At our agency , we’re seeing great results across a broad swath of clients from LinkedIn Sponsored Updates in particular, at a cost per lead similar to, or sometimes better than, traditional search marketing. Click To Tweet.

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ConvertKit

AUGUST 14, 2018

How many times a day do you search for an answer on Google? Knowing this causes us to trust Google and come back to its search engine again and again. Knowing this causes us to trust Google and come back to its search engine again and again. What is SEM (search engine marketing)? SEO vs PPC.

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Brightedge

MAY 7, 2021

Using SEM and SEO together will drive traffic using both organic and paid strategies. Creating data-driven content that is fresh, unique and informative for users, not bots, will help drive ranks. Well-developed content that provides real value to readers is one of the most crucial parts of SEO. What is SEM?

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. The Risks of Over-Reliance on Late-Stage Content Click To Tweet.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2016

Search remains the cornerstone of digital and content marketing efforts. The average B2B website gets 40% or more of all visits from organic search, and 81% of B2B purchase cycles start with a web search. Of course, search, like all other digital marketing tactics, continues to evolve. Internet users.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 28, 2021

As you build your career in content marketing, you should challenge yourself to create new desirable skill sets. Over the past several years, becoming SEO and SEM savvy has grown in importance to remain relevant and build a lucrative career. How SEO and SEM work together. What SEM is. How SEO and SEM are alike.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 6, 2020

The most effective SaaS marketing departments employ paid, owned, and earned media channels. For growing SaaS organizations that are doing inbound marketing , paid marketing channels can give you the awareness to put all of that great content to work. Paid Search. Display Ads.

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

?SEM for B2B is a different space than consumer marketing. Here, we’ll discuss some of the tactics and ad types you can use today in SEM for B2B. SEM for B2B (business-to-business companies) is a bit different than what marketers normally think about when they discuss search engine marketing.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Great SEO can get sites to the top of organic search rankings, provide valuable traffic from long-tail or high-traffic keywords and play a crucial role in driving growth to your company. That pitfall is paid search. That’s why the best digital marketers supplement SEO tactics with targeted PPC to yield top results.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The lack of an appropriate and complete tracking system is one of the most common errors, or omissions, that B2B marketers make in setting up a paid search program. The foundation of a strong search campaign is knowing what you want to achieve. Your search campaign should measure: 1. It’s easy to see why.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2017

This is especially true for technology marketers, and doubly true for those in nascent or emerging categories, when much of the marketing challenge may consist of convincing buyers that they have a problem to solve in the first place. The post Expand your Offer Strategy to Increase SEM Performance appeared first on The Point.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 30, 2018

The recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal has called into question the way Facebook uses its customers’ personal data to help advertisers with precision marketing on the platform. If you advertise on Facebook, you may be wondering how changes to the social media platform will impact your reach and ad results.

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DemandBase

JANUARY 8, 2019

Can search engine marketing (SEM) target specific accounts and minimize waste from unqualified respondents? SEM by definition is a top-of-funnel, quantity-focused channel. No technology currently exists that uses SEM to target accounts. How can you leverage SEM to aid and abet Account-Based Marketing?

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Engagio

OCTOBER 14, 2021

When it comes to B2B ad strategies, there’s no one better to talk to than Jennifer Hughes, Director of Digital Marketing for Demandbase. . Serving the right accounts the right content. Serving the right accounts the right content at the right time. Identifying and closing any gaps in your content library.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 13, 2013

If you’ve been thinking Facebook’s Ad Exchange (FBX) as just a source of display, prepare to have your conceptions flipped on their head. Facebook has just integrated Page Post link ads into the News Feed, and the result is the most precisely targeted social advertising the marketing world has ever seen. Bing and Google.

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Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2019

If Googling has ever let you down, you may have come across another search engine called Bing. This search engine is powered by Microsoft and strives to outdo Google at every turn. Bing wants to revolutionize digital search and rival the industry's long-standing powerhouse. According to our guide.

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Over the last decade, there has been an extraordinary growth of technology that empowers marketers to collect and then leverage troves of data across each of the varying stages of their buying cycle. Of course, being data-driven is much trickier than it would first appear.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 23, 2013

A recent study released by eBay, “ Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment ” refutes the value of paid search and claims an overall ineffectiveness both of branded and non-branded keyword ads. Brand Advertising. Study Takeaways. This is probably true.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 17, 2021

Social media platforms continue to evolve and grow, and so do their respective user bases. That’s why it’s vital to keep up with the demographic and usage data for the platforms you use in your digital content strategy. Ultimately, your ROI for social media marketing depends on how hard you have to work for that engagement.

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Spiralytics

MARCH 24, 2019

Nowadays, digital marketing is something you really should explore to achieve your bottom line, and a channel that you may consider utilizing is Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or search advertising. It takes a solid strategy to grow your small business.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 23, 2015

Social may be sexy, but search still pays the bills. As reported below, organic search drives 51% of all visitors to both B2B and and B2C Web sites, while paid-search drives 10% (and social 5%, on average). 89% of customers begin their buying process with a search engine. Digital Marketing Philippines ).

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Hubspot

JUNE 26, 2019

In fact, businesses make an average of $8 for every dollar they spend on Google Ads. If you’re a PPC marketer, you might know how time-consuming these campaigns can be. If you have a lot of other marketing tasks on your plate, this process can seem daunting. Integrations: Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 4, 2019

For today, we will be focusing on the front-end channel metrics in Google Ads. The ads absolutely need to be relevant to the landing page and keywords that are being put forth. This is the simplest way to improve your ad relevance, which increases your click-through rate, which in turn increases your quality score. Landing Page.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 2, 2013

One question we have gotten from our retail clients for years at The Search Monitor is: “How does my ad spend on SEM compare to the average for my retail category, and to other retail categories?” We wanted to find out how ad spend differed by retailer. But it’s free for a reason. It just isn’t precise.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One question we have gotten from our retail clients for years at The Search Monitor is: “How does my ad spend on SEM compare to the average for my retail category, and to other retail categories?” We wanted to find out how ad spend differed by retailer. But it’s free for a reason. It just isn’t precise.

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The Point

OCTOBER 7, 2014

It seems only yesterday that “PPC advertising” was synonymous with Google AdWords. Google still dominates search advertising – at last count, it handles roughly two-thirds of all Web search queries , a market share that won’t be decreasing any time soon. Billion with Google in 2013. Billion with Google in 2013.

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Atomic Reach

MARCH 18, 2019

What is more, the research by Disruptive Advertising suggests that 76% of people who search something nearby with the help of their phone will visit the business within the next few days. While conducting their search, about half of users cannot differentiate between PPC links and organic links in search engines.

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 12, 2016

What were the best & worst of search engine advertising in 2016? Search engine advertising remains a challenging field that is constantly changing. Call tracking: With cross-device becoming more prominent, this represents a huge opportunity as ads with phone numbers drive 300% more conversions.

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Webbiquity

JULY 19, 2016

What is true is that search engines have improved their semantic capabilities, meaning they look for the meaning in each block of text rather than just specific phrases. That is, search engine algorithms understand that words like “car,” “motor vehicle” and “automobile” are synonyms. 1) SEMrush.

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