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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

QuanticMind

These results can then further improve cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-acquisition (CPA), and cost-per-view (CPV)—all cost-based metrics that depend on CPM. This keeps the probability of winning the auction high enough that it will not compromise pacing and target budgets.

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Programmatic Advertising 101: Conversion Tracking

QuanticMind

And because advertising budgets tend to be finite, advertisers will often measure the success of a conversion campaign by controlling for cost. prospecting, demographic, private marketplace deals) to cost per click or cost per landing page view.

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Programmatic 101: Driving Performance with Campaign Optimization

QuanticMind

In order to have something to optimize toward, you should look at your goals and translate them into measurable KPIs during planning (CPC, CPA, CTR, conversions, etc.) If the CPC goes up, and you’re tracking changes, you may notice you recently removed an exchange, and that could be the reason. Keep track of all your changes.

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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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Programmatic Advertising 101: Conversion Tracking

QuanticMind

And because advertising budgets tend to be finite, advertisers will often measure the success of a conversion campaign by controlling for cost. prospecting, demographic, private marketplace deals) to cost per click or cost per landing page view.

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Friend or Frenemy: the Synergy Between SEO and PPC

QuanticMind

A good SEO campaign raises the authority of your domain, garners ever-important backlinks, and makes your on-site experience as frictionless as possible for prospects. Raising the profile and authority of your website, as well as the experience, usually decreases your ads’ CPC and lowers your overall CPA.

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How to Easily Track Your Offline Campaigns

Ontraport

Custom landing pages/custom domain. Sending offline traffic to a custom landing page or custom domain is one of the best and most used methods for tracking offline campaigns. Medium: Type of campaign such as CPC, CPA, banner, email. utm_source=Magazine & utm_medium=CPA & utm_campaign=SpringRelease. &