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Why we care about performance marketing

Martech

It’s important to note that performance-based marketing tactics like paid search, where advertisers only pay when a user clicks on an ad, is not performance marketing. While PPC/CPC campaigns focus on an action (the ad click), they don’t necessarily lead to a performance-based outcome like a sale or sign-up.

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SEO vs. SEM: Combining the Two to Maximize SERP Real Estate

Brightedge

This can be due to click fraud. Competitors may see your ad and click into it to inflate the number of clicks on your ad costing your company more ad spend. Because of this, you will see more quality traffic and leads coming to your site. If you’re looking to drive conversions. Leverage SEM to convert users.

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Interview with paid search expert Andrew Goodman

Biznology

Its little wonder cost per clicks—on the clicks you really want—have gone up as advertisers continue to measure results. After they begin adjusting for ROI, the growth in cost per clicks is going to be moderate but where it lands is anyone's guess.

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Hackers Are Draining Your Ad Budget: What You Need to Know About Digital Ad Fraud

Hubspot

If your marketing team is paying for online advertising, you want and expect the views and clicks on your ads to be coming from humans -- real consumers who could potentially buy your product or service somewhere down the line. Those are the basics of impression fraud. Now, let''s move on to the basics of click fraud.

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How to Get Started with Performance Marketing

Outbrain

Cost Per Click denotes the price paid for every time a viewer clicks on an ad. CPC is a better indicator of engagement than CPM, because the viewer has taken an action and actually clicked on the ad. A higher CPC usually means that the value of the conversion is higher.

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Best Paid Search Marketing Agency in 2022: Top 10 Choices

Single Grain

pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, search engine marketing (SEM) – is an auction-based advertising service provided by search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo, that allows businesses to run ads that they only pay for when someone clicks on their ad. This fee is called the cost per click (CPC).