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What Is Cost Per Click (CPC)? Definition, Calculation, Advantages & Examples

Martech Advisor

Cost-per-click (CPC) is defined as a form of digital advertising where you pay a publisher every time someone clicks on your ad. Cost per click (CPC) is an often-mentioned metric in the digital marketing world. Table of Contents: What Is Cost Per Click (CPC)? Types of CPC. Cost Per Click (CPC) Calculation.

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Accurate keywords are essential in contextual targeting

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A recent GumGum study found contextual targeting was more efficient than behavioral targeting when measuring cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-viewable impression (vCPM) metrics. Contextual targeting proved to have a 48% lower CPC rate and a 41% lower vCPM rate than behavioral targeting.

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Search Intent: The Key To Successful PPC Campaigns

Directive Agency

Only a few of those articles will mention the most vital and often overseen part of keyword research – search intent. Search intent is the other half of the story that many search marketers don’t pay enough attention to while doing keyword research. Simply put, search intent is the “why” behind the search. Number of Ads.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: Feb. 15

Martech

Users can access informative tooltips, data analytics, CPC calculation, tracking setup, and AI-generated creatives. Curated for You’s AI-driven lifestyle commerce platform launched its Purchase Intent Email and SMS Trigger platform, which uses advanced algorithms to predict and engage customers based on their lifestyle interests and events.

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5 essential Google Shopping optimizations Google won’t tell you by ShoppingIQ

Martech

This leads to unnecessary CPC charges, reduced ROI and frustrates customers when they arrive at pages with out-of-stock items. retailer, was unintentionally wasting its advertising budget on products that were out of stock during its Black Friday campaign when CPC rates were already soaring due to heightened competition.

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Campaign tracking in GA4: How to ensure your links are properly tagged

Martech

cpc, banner, email). All paid channels with “Traffic is Google Ads” in the requirements imply that the utm_medium value is either set to “cpc”, “ppc” or “paid.” For example, if your URL has utm_source=blogger and utm_medium=cpc , it will appear as “Paid Social” in GA4.

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Use Your Unspent Marketing Budget On Content Marketing For Next Year

Marketing Insider Group

Look at search intent such as commercial intent (see below). Identify competitive gaps and opportunities based on high CPC keywords. Bonus : Check out how we use CPC to identify high purchase intent and competitive gap keywords in my latest webinar. So with Semrush, you’re using search intent.