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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. Every other brand who wants to win those impressions will set their bids, and based on that and various other factors, Google may choose to display your ad to its users.

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The Ultimate Guide to Google Search Console in 2018

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It’s helpful on a macro and micro level -- both when I need to figure out what’s happened to a high-traffic blog post that suddenly dipped, and see how many impressions HubSpot is gaining month over month. I’m a content strategist on HubSpot’s SEO team, which means GSC is particularly useful to me. What’s average position?

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How to Perfectly Manage a PPC Campaign [Template]

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Once you do that, you'll be better positioned to maximize the return on your PPC investment. To understand search volumes and costs around each keyword you want to select, you can use free tools like the Google Ads Keyword Tool or -- if you're a HubSpot customer -- our Keywords tool. This is how A/B (and C and D) testing works.

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Content Marketing: Justifying the Costs and Benefits to the C-Suite

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These might amount to sending mass email campaigns, buying PPC or other display ads without any tailored content, participating in trade shows, or using product listing services—all which are behind the times. Content Marketing vs. Display Ads. How often do you (or your executives) actually click on display ads for real purposes?

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How to Audit Your PPC Campaign & Identify Metrics for Success

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Quality Score is Google’s measure of the relevance of your keywords, used to ensure that searchers see relevant ads and have a positive experience. The factors that determine your Quality Score include: The click-through rate (CTR) of the keyword and its corresponding ad. The CTR of the display URLs in the ad group.

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The Ultimate Guide to PPC

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When people search for your keywords, you know their search intent and can display the most relevant ad to your audience. This means more clicks and a greater chance of conversion.” - Laura Mittelmann, Paid Acquisition at HubSpot. This value determines the position of an ad on a search engine results page. Quality Score.

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Are Google's Featured Snippets Eating Your Blog Traffic?

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The HubSpot Marketing Blog has been around since 2006. The Marketing Blog has been a key part of HubSpot’s inbound business. It's displayed on top of the general results, and also includes the page's publication date, title, and URL. With a featured snippet, position #1 is, well, a losing result. Here's how we found out.

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