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The Ultimate Guide to SEM (Search Engine Marketing)

Hubspot

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is one of the most effective ways to grow your business and reach new customers. SEM, or search engine marketing, is using paid advertising to ensure that your business's products or services are visible in search engine results pages (SERPs). What is SEM?

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4 AdWords Tips Your Small Business Can’t Live Without

BenchmarkONE

Investing in Google AdWords can be great for your ROI — if you know what you’re doing. Google owns an impressive — and unsurprising — 74% of the search engine market (the second place leader, Chinese search engine Baidu, owns just 11%). Read on and start getting more out of your AdWords efforts.

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8 Actionable Tips to Optimize Your AdWords Performance Today

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The fact that Google receives the most global ad revenue every year tells advertisers that AdWords reigns as the ultimate acquisition channel. It also highlights that competition is stiff in search engine marketing. As marketers, we’re always looking for a way to get ahead of the competition. would take forever.

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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? Tweet This!

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

While more than 80% of companies now use paid search in some form (primarily AdWords), many of these programs are under-optimized and not delivering the results they could be. How can search marketers use techniques like testing and keyword match types to improve results? How important are branded terms in paid search?

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 1

Webbiquity

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in some of the best posts on search engine marketing of last year. Finding The Optimal Cost-Per-Lead by Search Engine Land. 9 things you MUST know before you start any conversion rate optimization by Search Engine People. Share this on Mixx.

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10 Essential Reports and Research for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Thankfully, as B2B marketers, we’re able to tap into the wants and needs of B2B consumers via online surveys, research reports, etc. As such, we’ve pulled together a list of 10 recent (free) reports and research data that could be beneficial for B2B marketers across industries. View the full report.