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Report: Marketers Struggling with Both Paid & Organic Search

KoMarketing Associates

Despite the challenges that often come with paid search, new research indicates that marketers are still willing to work with this tactic in order to reap the potential benefits. Merkle recently published its “Digital Marketing Report” for the second quarter of 2021. year-over-year, despite a 19% drop in click growth.

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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Social media managers are actually (slightly) happier working in the office rather than hybrid or remote. And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising.

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How Machine Learning Is Dramatically Improving Paid And Organic Search

Marketing Insider Group

Machine learning is helping paid search to become insanely more effective. A recent report by Aquisio found that paid search accounts that are optimized for machine learning achieve 71 percent better conversion rates, using lower cost-per-click, or CPC.

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How to Determine Your Paid Media Budget

SmartBug Media

Paid media is a great way to supplement your inbound marketing efforts. Whether you’re in the beginning phases of your strategy or you’ve been executing a plan for some time, paid media can help you generate qualified leads quickly for your organization. What's the point of having a paid media budget?

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Improve Paid Search Results Through Routine, Scheduled Maintenance

Navigate the Channel

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks of optimizing paid search campaigns. From keyword sweeps and bid adjustments to audience targeting and ad refreshes, there’s always something demanding your attention. Should we be running brand campaigns?

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Cost Per Click Reduction Strategy in Google AdWords

NuSpark Consulting

As an experienced marketing executive, you understand the importance of being visible on search engines; whether it’s via 1 st page organic listings, or as an ad that serves based on a prospect’s query. We’ve seen click costs for many IT clients to be over $50 per click to be within the top 4 positions.

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Taking Our Own Medicine: Our Strategic Approach to Generating More Organic Traffic

Marketing Insider Group

As a content marketing consulting company, we here at MIG wouldn’t be authentic if we didn’t take our own medicine. If we’re going to be content marketing experts, we’ve got to walk the walk. We are keenly aware that one of the biggest struggles any company deals with is generating more organic traffic.

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