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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. Poor Adwords budget management can lead to missed performance targets. 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.

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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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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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AdWords Nerd Alert: What Google’s Removal of Sidebar Ads Means for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Last week, it was reported by several sources, and confirmed by Google, that the AdWords ads that appear on the right hand-side of Google’s search engine results page will be removed from desktop searches in the near future. Currently, Google search displays their AdWords ads on the right side of the page: Say goodbye to these!

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

Webbiquity

SEM changes take effect in a matter of minutes. • How to Handle the AdWords Ad Rotation Changes by Search Engine Watch. ” Top 5 ways to use AdWords’ new Auction Insights tool by PPC Hero. ” Top 5 ways to use AdWords’ new Auction Insights tool by PPC Hero. Myth 6: Quality Score is All About CTR by PPC Hero.

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36 Digital Marketing Experts You Need To Follow On Social Media

SocialPilot

Bred has also written the book called ‘Advanced Google Adwords’. This official Adword seminar leader has a lot of interesting PPC insights on his Twitter profile. Bred’s KPI monitoring and diagnosis series is informative and must be followed, where he discusses changes in CPC, CTR, and click volume. Why should you follow him?

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

The Point

It seems only yesterday that “PPC advertising” was synonymous with Google AdWords. Almost all ad-serving platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google AdWords) run their auctions based on estimated yield to their network, not simply on bid level. Its top 25 US-based search advertisers alone spent more than $1.3 Billion with Google in 2013.