Blue Flame Thinking

JANUARY 18, 2023

Any digital marketing conversation you’ve had recently probably included the topic of keyword research. Everything on your landing pages – from the copy to images, video, and graphics – is powered by keywords. Keyword Research Tools. Identifying the right keywords to use is not easy. Keywords Planner.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

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. Here are the five most common “fails” we see in B2B search campaigns: Not Bidding on the Correct Keywords.

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Conductor

OCTOBER 28, 2019

SEM is also… amazing. SEO includes anything done to a website for the sake of search rankings, which might include researching keywords and placing them strategically within a page, optimizing a page’s structure,, or using certain redirects in a site’s url hierarchy. What is SEM? SEM stands for search engine marketing.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 20, 2019

What is a Keyword? Keywords are phrases or ideas that relate to your business’ products or services. Keywords are essential for Search Engine Optimisation. In terms of SEO , keywords are the words that searchers enter into search engines in order to find answers to their queries. Why are Keywords Important?

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Why You Should Spy on Your Competitor’s Keywords In PPC, you compete in keyword auctions to determine ad placement. By analyzing your competitors’ keyword strategies, you can replicate their success, target missed opportunities, and drive more conversions. What is PPC Competitor Keyword Analysis?

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Data science is potentially one of the most powerful SEM tools in any paid search professional’s toolbox. Learn how to use data science to maximize profits and conversions while improving your efficiency in our full SEM tools eBook on data science. What if free SEM tools could do this for you? Yes, it could.

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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. Let’s get started.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 22, 2018

Financial services businesses have many opportunities to build brand awareness and attract new clients through search engine marketing (SEM). What Is SEM? With SEO, you create and keyword-optimize your website content to rank well in organic search results. Target long-tail keywords.

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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. For many companies, the bulk of the budget goes toward branded keywords. No technology currently exists that uses SEM to target accounts.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 4, 2016

Most digital marketers have a general SEO strategy such as tracking keyword performance and incorporating search terms into their blog posts. Believe it or not, SEO keywords are way more valuable than SEO itself. A sophisticated keyword strategy can help every step of your marketing funnel. Group Your Keywords.

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QuanticMind

MAY 14, 2019

The most powerful tool, though, is unquestionably keyword bids. SEM bidding optimization is the most significant way to achieve peak performance in paid search. A folder would optimize for a given goal in a simple and direct way: higher-performing keywords would be bid up, and lower-performing keywords in the folder would be bid down.

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QuanticMind

MAY 8, 2019

Balancing your SEM budget is one of the major challenges of marketing management today. 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. Numerous factors can contribute to poor SEM budget spend.

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QuanticMind

MARCH 27, 2019

Businesses today use a variety of approaches to SEM that each come with their own benefits and pains, but they all have one priority in common: to create the most effective SEM strategy while minimizing the effort and resources needed to achieve it. Dealing with Averages. Dealing with Data Scarcity. Answers on a postcard.

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For the past decade or more, in-house SEM campaigns have taken a back seat to SEM agencies for most small, medium and large businesses. A Common Misconception: SEM Is Where the Customer Experience Lies. Within SEM, most of the opportunity to iterate on the customer’s experience lies deeper in the funnel.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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. Higher goals require a larger budget.

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Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 8, 2024

SEO and SEM, data analytics, cross-channel consistency and user experience. Optimizing for relevant keywords is crucial to ensure that your content surfaces when consumers are searching during micro-moments, so an emphasis on smart SEO and SEM is a must. Let’s start a conversation. Relevance, relevance, relevance.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

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. When planning your B2B PPC campaigns, don’t forget the importance of keyword research for your paid search campaigns on Google or Bing Ads. What is your monthly budget?

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QuanticMind

JANUARY 3, 2019

Without a doubt, 2018 has been quite a year for PPC advertisers and the SEM industry as a whole. We’ve compiled some of the ways in which the developments of the past year have played a role in shaping the direction of SEM industry — and how they’ll potentially play out in the New Year. GDPR Sets a New Global Standard .

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For universities looking to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment, more and more the answer to that question is search engine marketing (SEM). Why Use SEM for Higher Education? SEM is a multifaceted marketing strategy that can’t be learned overnight. But which strategies and tactics should they use?

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

Using the time decay attribution model in Google Analytics will give you better insight into the channels leading your conversion rate. Time decay gives more credit to the action that happens closest to the conversion time than it gives to the initial ad interaction. Use SEO and SEM strategies to compete for rankings.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For universities looking to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment, more and more the answer to that question is search engine marketing (SEM). Why Use SEM for Higher Education? SEM is a multifaceted marketing strategy that can’t be learned overnight. But which strategies and tactics should they use?

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QuanticMind

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Such is the case when you use both your own inventory and lead capacity to optimize your SEM activities and increase ROI. The majority of businesses use search engine marketing (SEM) to sell products or attract leads to their business. How much stock you have of each product and when they might run out. Use Local Inventory Ads.

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Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Whether it is a website redesign or a new launch, gaining traffic is the first step on the path to lead generation and conversion success. Keywords: Each page of your website should focus on a certain keyword. Include your keyword in the H1, H2s and throughout, but be careful not to overoptimize.

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QuanticMind

APRIL 23, 2019

In SEM, we often encapsulate these customer checkpoints discreetly into what we call the “Conversion Funnel”. The Conversion Funnel is a useful conceptual model only in that it serves to maximize what goes out the bottom. In SEM, we assume: If more people show interest in your applesauce, more people will buy it.

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QuanticMind

JUNE 10, 2019

Each and every keyword is unique,” we concluded, “ they will all defy the average. For a summary example, say we have a set of 100 keywords and our task is to rank them in order of value. If we rank the keywords by one metric we’ll have a very different list than if we rank by the other. Volume) of each conversion?

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QuanticMind

MARCH 22, 2019

In this article, we list four tips for increasing SEM spend without taking a hit, ensuring your performance stays profitable. Keyword Expansion. The first step to increasing campaign spend is to expand your keyword focus. In many cases, remarketing ads produce higher conversion rates.

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QuanticMind

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Another major benefit of using Bing for SEM is lower competition. Some of the key differences include: Bing treats negative keywords differently. Both Bing and Google Ads allow you to include negative keywords at both the ad group and campaign levels. Automated rules do not transfer. Try Bing’s Dynamic Search Ads.

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Golden Spiral

JANUARY 25, 2017

We often work with B2B technology companies that have very low search volumes for their keywords. It isn’t always about one keyword providing all the value; it’s about having a good keyword profile and a great strategy for it. Those are what we call “conversion stop words.” That is a really good question!

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. Additionally, they should utilize multiple media channels including: Search Engine Marketing (SEM): 75% of searchers don’t go beyond the first page of their search results.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 17, 2010

Door-busting CTRs, conversion rates as respectable as that lady always sitting in the front row at church, nice ROI. No problem, I thought; knock out a keyword list, crank out a few ads, test a couple of different landing pages, keep an eye on things to weed out the bum search phrases and keep bids in line, piece of cake. Went great.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2016

When they inevitably find your content, condition the conversation towards your brand. Over the course of the podcast, David wondered out loud why more marketers don’t consult keyword data when writing and editing content. Any individual can do keyword research with readily available tools such as Google’s Keyword Planner or Trends.

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Martech

JANUARY 23, 2023

This article will walk you through the basics of search engine marketing (SEM), the umbrella under which search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search (a.k.a., Website owners use keywords and other strategies to push their websites as high as possible within a search engine’s results. pay-per-click or PPC) sit.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Conversely, Sears had a much lower ad frequency over the period, only showing their ads 25% of the time with an average rank of 5.4. This might have been a strategic decision if toy-related keywords are not that important to their business. Paid Search Search Marketing Slider Black Friday Kohl''s Search Engine Marketing sem Target'

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QuanticMind

APRIL 4, 2017

How did industry leader and e-commerce frontrunner Rosetta Stone use cutting-edge data science and machine learning to lift revenue +40% and conversions +50%, while cutting CPA in half? Conversion: lifted +50%. How can you use the power of data science and machine learning to massively lift your SEM and Google Shopping programs?

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Directive Agency

APRIL 13, 2018

Today we’re going to talk about SEM for B2B and the lessons that we’ve learned from 40+ accounts. In this particular study, what we looked at: Conversions. Conversion rate. Conversely, branded search was converting at $33. We found that the average display campaign’s cost per conversion was $187.

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QuanticMind

MAY 31, 2018

If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. That seriously limits your keyword targeting opportunities compared to SEO. Increase conversions. This will free up more of your budget and time for other SEM activities. Advantages of SEO.

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QuanticMind

MAY 31, 2018

If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. That seriously limits your keyword targeting opportunities compared to SEO. Increase conversions. This will free up more of your budget and time for other SEM activities. Advantages of SEO.

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