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Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

QuanticMind

However, many marketers are still relying on the bid optimization tools that Google and Bing provide, even those with decent SEM budgets (~$50k). These publisher optimization tools and best practices like “Estimated first-page bid recommendations” and “Smart bidding” end up increasing our CPA and thinning our margins on those top keywords.

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Seven Expert Search Engine Marketing Guides

Webbiquity

Done properly, search engine marketing (a.k.a. SEM, paid search, PPC) is a powerful complement to SEO and an effective tactic on its own. Discover the answers to these questions and others here in seven noteworthy search engine marketing guides from the past year. Dynamic Landing Pages by PPC Hero.

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5 Most Common Fails in B2B Search Campaigns

The Point

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. 5 Most Common Fails in B2B Search Campaigns #SEM Click To Tweet.

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Inside Adwords: Exploring The Differences Between Smart Display Campaigns & Custom Intent Campaigns

Stevens & Tate

This helps to make creating display ads much easier since all you’ll need to do is submit your creative assets (such as images, headlines, subheaders, and copy) along with your cost-per-acquisition (CPA) goal and Google will determine what the best possible combination of these elements are in order to meet your CPA.

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Master These Three KPIs to Grow Your Business

BenchmarkONE

To calculate your cost per acquisition, you’ll divide the amount of money spent on a marketing campaign by the number of new leads that campaign generated. So, if you spent $1,000 on a marketing plan and that plan helped you acquire 100 new customers, your CPA would be $10. . Is that good? Well, it all depends.

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Friend or Frenemy: the Synergy Between SEO and PPC

QuanticMind

When it comes to Search Engine Marketing (SEM) programs, the question of the synergy between SEO and PPC eventually comes into play. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO , is the process of getting traffic from the organic (unpaid) search results on search engines. Does it matter?

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Ego Bidding: Why Paying for #1 Position on Google Costs You More Than You Think

The Point

Additionally, if that domination can’t quickly or easily be achieved through organic means (via Search Engine Optimization), then at minimum the mandate is normally to ensure that the company’s search ad appears at the top of the page.