SmartBug Media

JUNE 12, 2023

As a business owner or marketer, you know that paid search advertising has the power to drive targeted traffic to your website. In this blog post, we will explore the key steps and best practices for creating an effective paid search strategy that maximizes your ROI and helps you achieve your business goals.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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seo.co

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many marketing experts like to work on SEO and PPC separately. While this isn’t a bad idea, incorporating SEO and PPC campaigns can make for a more effective marketing mix. When you’re looking to take a hybrid approach for your online marketing goals, you might want to incorporate a mix of PPC and SEO into your marketing strategy.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

There are three distinct types of media that make up any digital marketing mix: earned, owned, and paid media. Inbound marketing traditionally couples the latter two; it’s a method to draw in your audience with stellar website content, blog articles, premium content, and social media engagement.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Paid media has become a non-negotiable in demand generation. B2B advertising expenditures in the United States totaled $32 billion in 2022, an increase from the $28.9 The data paints a clear picture – paid media is here to stay, and businesses are increasingly aware of its power.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A marketer’s job isn’t done once a visitor converts on a landing page. Even the landing page itself has more work to do before we can start giving ourselves a high-five for scoring a conversion. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all landing page. Far from it.

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The Point

AUGUST 27, 2019

In a remarkably short time, LinkedIn has grown to become a major player in B2B advertising (at about 20% of total industry spend, according to industry watchers ), quickly rivaling search advertising on Google. Non-Content Offers. 8 Common LinkedIn Advertising Mistakes #paidsocial Click To Tweet.

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Brandpoint

JANUARY 23, 2020

Google AdWords – now named Google Ads – is one of the most useful methods out there for getting traffic to your website. It’s also a great investment for researching the keywords you can use to enhance and inform your traditional content marketing efforts. LarryKim | LinkedIn. He’s a contributor at CNBC, Inc.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 10, 2019

Crafting strong ad copy on Google Ads isn’t hard, but to do it right, we have to flex both art and science muscles. We’re only given a small number of characters on search engine results pages (SERPs), so we have to make them count. Keywords in Ad Copy. Keyword placement in ads can also play a large role.

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

Marketers who are judged by the number of leads they generate will push for quantity. But big-ticket purchases in B2C and B2B will help marketers see ROI with a small number of wins, which pushes some marketers toward quality. These purchase-minded consumers are also spending a great deal of time on social media.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you want to know the key content marketing metrics to measure your content marketing ROI (return on investment)? To effectively measure the success of your content marketing campaigns, it’s crucial to understand the relevant content marketing metrics.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. We are all tuning out advertising. We all know ads don’t work. The 3 Components of Content Marketing ROI.

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Velocity Partners

JUNE 7, 2024

Content as community: How content marketing is changing in the new B2B GTM This is one of a series of blogs about the changing B2B go-to-market. A few years ago, just after B2B content marketing morphed into, well, just B2B marketing , I got together with the senior team here.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 21, 2022

When launching your very first paid search campaign using Google Ads, getting your text ads to stand out can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, Google has equipped paid search experts with one more tool to help build a successful campaign: ad extensions ! What are Google Ad extensions?

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Kevin Indig

AUGUST 7, 2023

Expect timeless tips and strategies, as well as new insights into the future of search. Explore All Episodes SEO, content, and other non-paid channels can impact brand growth more than you think. We think advertising and a great product are the only ways. But, marketers can apply it to content and campaigns.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re still on the fence about social media advertising, we get it. Research shows that one of the top goals for marketers is increasing brand awareness, which is why more and more brands are achieving this with a paid social presence. Why run paid social media ads, anyway?

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing is an advertising model where advertisers pay a fee each time a user clicks one of their ads. Platforms include, but are not limited to Google, Bing, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and can be served on desktop, tablet or mobile devices. What is your monthly budget?

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When you’re looking for a product to buy, what’s the first thing you do? You Google it. And for most shoppers, the first result they see is the paid advertisement at the top of Google’s search results. Here’s how product listing ads can give your advertising strategy a boost.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Landing page SEO is a tricky proposition. Landing pages are potent tools to convert readers into customers, but the way most are designed is hardly SEO friendly. A landing page aims to direct readers down a specific path, focusing them on your call to action without offering other distractions.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 22, 2022

In paid media, there are some things that are crucial to your account’s performance that can be easily missed, especially when you're just looking at just one part of the whole picture. Google Ads can be a little complex to navigate if you don’t fully know your way around. What is ad rank? Ad Position.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You and a couple of friends have an idea for a product that fits a clear gap in the market. You pitch at a local startup event, which lands you in a growth accelerator, which also leads to your first seed funding. Procurify’s marketing team was under more pressure than ever to keep their growth going—even accelerate it.

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ConvertKit

JUNE 21, 2021

Posting a link to your social channels and crossing your fingers that sales pour in is not the product launch you deserve. After all the work you put into creating your incredible product, you need a proper marketing plan. Enter our product launch timeline. A solid launch process for a new product starts early.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 21, 2022

Are you looking for the best WordPress landing page plugins to boost sales and conversions on your website? A landing page narrows down your visitors’ focus on the important elements of your page, such as a call-to-action button for growing your email list, selling a product, promoting your webinar, and more.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

When you think of “B2B” marketing, you think of “Business to Business,” not “Business to Customer.” But this failure to focus on the customer experience or customer marketing is a crucial mistake that many B2B companies make. One of the main objectives of customer marketing is to build and solidify trust.

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Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

People don’t like ads. A quarter of online ad views are fraudulent, and ad-blocking software prevents brands from reaching parts of their audience. Google’s Ad campaigns are a great solution to cut through the digital noise and target the people who are already searching for answers relevant to your brand.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Cost Per Click Paid Search Agency 113

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

The search marketing industry is built to run like a macroeconomy. Search results are resources. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . As search marketers, we must assume that users on the internet are also rational. .

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Unbounce

JUNE 5, 2019

When it comes to launching a new product or business, my mantra is to “fall in love with the problem, not the solution.” Testing might sound like it requires a large investment of time, money, and other resources, but I’ve found the perfect low-effort, high-return workaround: building a landing page.

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Huptech Web

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Table Of Contents. Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedIn Ads: What’s The Difference? What Are Google Ads? Advantages & Strengths of Google Ads. What Are Facebook Ads? Advantages & Strengths of Facebook Ads. What Are LinkedIn Ads? Introduction.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people. Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 24, 2022

Your competitors are generating TONS of leads and sales through native ad campaigns. Not only did you spend thousands to run your native ad campaigns, but you even spent hours putting together the copy, and images, among other materials, only to be ignored by your audience. We’re about to take a deep dive into how native ads work.

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Golden Spiral

MARCH 24, 2022

Is the issue with B2B ad conversions an industry-wide phenomenon or do some companies not produce ad content that works? I once read a stat that said: “You’re more likely to get bitten by a shark than click on a display ad.”. Researched content for a blog article? So then why did display ads account for 85% of U.S.

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Choozle

MAY 5, 2021

How many times a day do you search for something online? Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Jump to: What is search advertising? How does search advertising work?

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s the worst fear of every ecommerce marketer. You’ve got a great new product—khaki pants for dogs—and you’re ready to unleash it on the market. The Google and Facebook ads. The product page on your website. What’s an ecommerce landing page? And… crickets.

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Bannerflow

MAY 12, 2023

Google Optimize, a powerful tool for website optimization and A/B testing, has long been a go-to solution for advertisers seeking to enhance their online marketing strategies. One key consideration is the company’s continuous efforts to streamline their product offerings and consolidate resources.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 4, 2019

For today, we will be focusing on the front-end channel metrics in Google Ads. The ads absolutely need to be relevant to the landing page and keywords that are being put forth. This is the simplest way to improve your ad relevance, which increases your click-through rate, which in turn increases your quality score.

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