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A Behind-the-Scenes Look into HubSpot's Newest Content Marketing Strategy (Part 1 of 3)

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This post is a part of Made @ HubSpot, an internal thought leadership series through which we extract lessons from experiments conducted by our very own HubSpotters. We have some good ol’ quantitative data about how much search volume these keywords get and what the estimated CPC is for bottom funnel search terms.

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6 SEO KPIs Every Search Marketer Should Know

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Aja Frost, the head of SEO content at HubSpot, says, "Any metric—in isolation—can be misleading. For example, HubSpot's SEO team used to obsess over organic traffic. For HubSpot, we track content leads and user signups in addition to organic traffic. Cost-per-click (CPC). You'll track this in combination with other KPIs.

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The 8-Step Process HubSpot Uses to Optimize Google Advertising Costs

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Over the past three years, HubSpot has spent millions of dollars and ran over 1,200 controlled experiments on acquiring free CRM users through Google advertisements. For example, if we had a “Competitors” campaign, we’d have a “HubSpot Marketing Competitors” ad group and a “HubSpot Sales Competitors” ad group. HubSpot CRM").

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

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New sub-niches cropped up in the marketing discipline, around the ecosystems of marketing automation tools like Eloqua, Marketo and eventually HubSpot. Google, LinkedIn and Facebook are driving CPC up. Lead generation was at an all-time high. For a while, all was well in B2B marketing. But things slowly started to change. And why not?

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How to Determine a Bidding Strategy for Different Types of Ads

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In the video below, HubSpot Academy reviews how to build your first Google Ads campaign and explains how the Google Ads auction system works. Manual Cost Per Click (CPC). With manual CPC, you select the price that you're willing to pay for each click. Enhanced CPC. Target Cost Per Acquisition (CPA).

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Understanding the Ins and Outs of Google Ad Extensions

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Control your CPC cost. As you may guess, a higher Ad Rank typically results in a low overall CPC cost per auction. Implementing ad extensions offers a great opportunity for controlling your CPC costs without having to increase your budget. Hubspot offers native integration when syncing with your Google Ads account.

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The Complete Guide to Building Customer Personas

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Use this information as the template for the most specific persona you can create with HubSpot. HubSpot “Make My Persona” Tool. And now — HubSpot. If you want to create a more visual, detailed representation of your customer persona, use HubSpot’s “Make My Persona” tool.