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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. Your goals—how many leads or sales are you planning to drive from search marketing?

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How to use negative keywords to optimise B2B Google Ads

The Lead Agency

This way, if someone searches for “cheap luxury watches” or “affordable luxury watches”, your ad won’t show up, since it conflicts with your target market and could lead to wasted ad spend on unqualified clicks. The Lead Agency has worked on a number of successful B2B AdWords campaigns.

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SEM Mystery: The Case of the Missing Leads

Webbiquity

Government stuff, on AdWords. Door-busting CTRs, conversion rates as respectable as that lady always sitting in the front row at church, nice ROI. Two months down the road, the AdWords campaign was in trouble. Sure, the CTRs were decent, but the conversion rate was uglier than the business end of a sharpee. Went great.

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How B2B Companies Can Use Sitelinks For More Effective Advertisements

KoMarketing Associates

Just like other Adwords campaign links, all sitelinks are reviewed and can be disapproved, which would mean they would not be shown in advertisements. The CTR of sitelinks tends to be lower than those of regular ads, so results must be compared amongst sitelinks, instead of entire campaigns, according to Google’s Inside AdWords blog.

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36 Digital Marketing Experts You Need To Follow On Social Media

SocialPilot

Joe Pulizzi Joe is the founder of Content Marketing Institute, a leading content marketing resource. His book, Epic Content Marketing, was in Fortune’s ‘5 Must-Read Business Books of the Year’ in 2014. His podcasts entertain multiple video marketing experts. Her Twitter posts cover every aspect of SMM.

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Google AdWords Average CTR and Best Practices

WebMarketCentral

It's surprisingly difficult, however, to get meaningful data on the average click-through rate (CTR) for Google AdWords ads. That range includes both B2B and B2C ads (the latter tend to generate higher CTRs). On the B2B side, I'd place the average Google AdWords CTR in the range of 0.9-1.4%. 1.2%, 1%-2% and 3%-5%.

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7 Ways SEO & PPC Can Work Together in 2021

Hubspot

But if click-through rate (CTR) and engagement is low — even if it ranks on page one — you've now spent your time and budget running circles in an SEO hamster wheel. And, by the way, CTR is an indirect SEO ranking factor. Ultimately, marketers should craft a surround sound search engine marketing strategy.

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