Webbiquity

JULY 19, 2016

Despite some misleading chatter to the contrary, SEO is not dead , and keywords still matter. And of course, keyword stuffing, as an SEO tactic, is long dead. But keywords (more precisely, keyword phrases) still matter in the sense they reveal searcher intent. That’s where keyword research comes in. Here are 17 of the best keyword research tools according to expert reviewers. 2) Google Keyword Planner. 11) Live Keyword Analysis.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2016

Over the course of the podcast, David wondered out loud why more marketers don’t consult keyword data when writing and editing content. Even the tech people are confounded by the sheer variety of data they need to integrate to take full advantage of keyword data in marketing activities. Any individual can do keyword research with readily available tools such as Google’s Keyword Planner or Trends. The system would be all less complicated without the keywords.

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Spiralytics

MARCH 27, 2018

For searchers, their ability to identify the relevant keywords makes it possible to find the content that they need fast. Meanwhile, marketers and advertisers can leverage search to get their messages in front of consumers through search engine marketing (SEM). SEM KeywordsPeople are searching the internet by the second. Statistics say that Google alone processes about 3.5 billion searches every day.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2017

In an era when the average business buyer only contacts a brand when he/she is 67 percent through the buying process , there’s every reason to make sure that you’re reaching prospective customers at every stage of their research, not just when they’re ready to buy. It’s puzzling, therefore, why so many SEM campaigns in the high tech space focus exclusively on late-stage offers, namely trials and demos.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 20, 2019

What is a Keyword? Keywords are phrases or ideas that relate to your business’ products or services. Keywords are essential for Search Engine Optimisation. In terms of SEO , keywords are the words that searchers enter into search engines in order to find answers to their queries. In order to be found for the keywords that are most relevant to your business and customers, your keywords should be used across your website in page content, images, videos and blogs etc.

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seo.co

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Online keyword competition is fierce. It all starts with keyword research, the process of uncovering keyword opportunities for your brand to rank higher in search engines. Brainstorm your “seed” keywords. Add seed keywords into your preferred keyword tool.

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Last year we published some tips and secrets on how to expand your SEM strategy using Bing Ads. If you want to maximize the value of Bing Ads for SEM in 2020, here are 13 new tips and strategies to consider. Bing’s Keyword Planner. Product Negative Keyword Conflicts Report.

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

?SEM for B2B is a different space than consumer marketing. Here, we’ll discuss some of the tactics and ad types you can use today in SEM for B2B. SEM for B2B (business-to-business companies) is a bit different than what marketers normally think about when they discuss search engine marketing. Specifically, many marketers consider SEM to primarily be a B2C (business-to-consumer) space. The importance of brand keywords for B2B search marketing campaigns.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 28, 2021

Over the past several years, becoming SEO and SEM savvy has grown in importance to remain relevant and build a lucrative career. But if you’re a little confused about the differences between SEO and SEM, don’t sweat it. How SEO and SEM work together. What SEM is.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM) can be a powerful lead generation source, or a complete waste of money. B2B marketers often get less from their SEM programs than possible by overlooking basic but critical steps. Here are some best practices to optimize your results from SEM campaigns: 1. If you’re uncertain, start your campaign with search, then expand to the content network once your keywords and messages are optimized. Optimize your keyword bids.

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Fathom

APRIL 12, 2013

When creating a PPC campaign from scratch and estimating performance for projections, Google Keyword Tool and Google Traffic Estimator are two great tools for research. Google Keyword Tool is a great tool to find monthly search volumes, average cost-per-click (CPC), analyze the competitive nature of a specific query, find additional keywords, a quick snapshot of seasonality, and more!…

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For universities looking to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment, more and more the answer to that question is search engine marketing (SEM). So while it’s easy to grasp why for-profit businesses need to invest in search engine marketing (SEM) to get more reach and drive sales online, until recently it was unclear if SEM really is a necessary investment for higher education institutions. Why Use SEM for Higher Education?

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Blue Flame Thinking

JANUARY 18, 2023

Any digital marketing conversation you’ve had recently probably included the topic of keyword research. Everything on your landing pages – from the copy to images, video, and graphics – is powered by keywords. Keyword Research Tools. Keywords Planner.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 22, 2018

Financial services businesses have many opportunities to build brand awareness and attract new clients through search engine marketing (SEM). According to Brandpoint’s State of Content Marketing for Financial Services report, reaching the right audience is the biggest challenge for financial services marketers, followed by generating traffic and keeping up with the competition: These challenges can all be addressed when you develop a targeted, comprehensive SEM strategy.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For your perusal, here are the quick hits: Brand SEM insight from “Brands Talk Search Marketing”: Featuring: Daniela de Simone, @erinever , @jknob8 , @simonheseltine , @CJSherman. Every brand is at a different point in its SEM journey – for some, SEO departments manage keyword lists, while others are starting to focus on secondary search engines. Panelists discuss the ups and downs of various SEM tools, particularly on a finite budget.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Keyword research is the foundation of pay-per-click advertising. Thus, growing a keyword list is the first step to launching new campaigns or expanding existing ones. If you’re looking for new keywords to target, the following ideas will help you find a variety of potential terms. Do Keyword Research from Your Own Site’s Traffic. The initial place to look for keywords isn’t in some keyword-generating tool but rather right on your own site.

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2019

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is one of the most effective ways to grow your business and reach new customers. While it's critical you employ organic strategies to attract traffic over the long-term, sometimes, you can't properly compete on the SERPs without putting money behind it -- and that's where SEM comes into play. When this is the case, it's critical you invest in a SEM strategy. What is SEM? Best SEM tools. Google Ads Keyword Planner.

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Brightedge

MAY 7, 2021

Using SEM and SEO together will drive traffic using both organic and paid strategies. While keyword research and implementation are still a ranking factor, search engines are ranking content more predominantly based on the information provided to a user and the user experience.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For universities looking to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment, more and more the answer to that question is search engine marketing (SEM). So while it’s easy to grasp why for-profit businesses need to invest in search engine marketing (SEM) to get more reach and drive sales online, until recently it was unclear if SEM really is a necessary investment for higher education institutions. Why Use SEM for Higher Education?

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SEM Education Keyword PPC 40

QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you’ve advertised on platforms like Google Ads or Bing Ads, you know by now that they try their hardest to make the SEM account maintenance process as easy as possible. The more time, money and resources your marketing teams invest into SEM account maintenance, the more difficult it is to create enough efficiency and momentum to steadily increase ROI. SEM Account Maintenance = Managing Your Bid Strategy. Clicks and conversions are the relevant bidding options for SEM.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 31, 2018

You simply need your SEM strategies to be more effective than your competitors. But what if I told you that there is a relatively easy way to get into the minds of your competitors in SEM? What if, in other words, someone handed you the SEM playbook for crushing your competition? Read on to get the most comprehensive SEM playbook for crushing your competitors. The final step to fully understanding your competitor’s SEM strategies is analyzing their PPC campaigns.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Great SEO can get sites to the top of organic search rankings, provide valuable traffic from long-tail or high-traffic keywords and play a crucial role in driving growth to your company. With pretty minimal effort and investment, competitors can start driving traffic from the same keywords you spent months attempting to rank for. If you want to fully capitalize on search results, it is a good idea to supplement keywords of value with targeted PPC ads. Keywords Explorer 2.0

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QuanticMind

MAY 31, 2018

If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. That seriously limits your keyword targeting opportunities compared to SEO. If you host a blog on your website, you can target all sorts of long-tail keywords related to questions people ask about your industry. But as long as you target relevant keywords with quality content, you should be able to quickly realize a return on your investment.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 26, 2011

The SeoQuake team, the group behind the SEMRush tools for SEO and keyword research, recently released a new tool to help SEM consultants and agencies find local clients. Clicking the SEMRush icon within the pop-out or sidebar opens a new window displaying the keywords bid on by that company, and for each keyword the average cost per click, destination URL, percentage of AdWords traffic driven, percentage of AdWords costs and more.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Search engine marketing (SEM) is comprised of both search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns. Your PPC campaign will be designed around a keyword strategy, just like your SEO. That's far too broad a keyword. Your SEO strategy will return the most relevant visitors to you if work with long tail keywords (LTKs) that are queries containing the language your ideal students use to search for what they want.

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QuanticMind

JUNE 15, 2017

Day 2 of #SMX Advanced includes tips and tactics on branded keywords, audience targeting, expanded text ads and Google Shopping. QuanticMind has a wrap-up of Day 2’s SEM sessions from SMX Advanced 2017, including more quick hits on branded, audience, ETAs and Shopping: Protecting Your Branded Keywords . It’s estimated that competitors running ads against branded keywords can cost up to a 10% drop in clicks and 20% higher CPC.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

PPC analysis should be an ongoing, iterative practice, as should your keyword research. Beyond using modern techniques like geo targeting , device targeting, time segmentation, and a real-time bidding algorithm , maximizing your ROI through long-tail keywords is a smart strategy to keep your search marketing campaign relevant and profitable. Long-tail keywords – which are often indicated by queries of 4 terms or more – deliver little traffic on an individual basis.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

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. Add in the fact that B2B sales cycles are typically long and complex (meaning that advertisers may not see ROI for weeks or months), and it becomes clear that thriving in today’s SEM landscape requires getting a lot of things right.

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QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

PPC analysis should be an ongoing, iterative practice, as should your keyword research. Beyond using modern techniques like geo targeting , device targeting, time segmentation and a real-time bidding algorithm , maximizing your ROI through long-tail keywords is a smart strategy to keep your search marketing campaign relevant and profitable. Long-tail keywords – which are often indicated by queries of 4 terms or more – deliver little traffic on an individual basis.

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Conductor

OCTOBER 28, 2019

SEM is also… amazing. SEO includes anything done to a website for the sake of search rankings, which might include researching keywords and placing them strategically within a page, optimizing a page’s structure,, or using certain redirects in a site’s url hierarchy. What is SEM? SEM stands for search engine marketing. SEM includes paid search and organic search. Does SEO help SEM? Does SEM help SEO? So which is better, SEO or SEM?

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Choosing the right keywords to include in your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy requires combining an intimate knowledge of your industry with SEO best practices. Recently, we shared how to choose keywords with buying intent , which is critical if your purpose is to generate leads.

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TrustRadius Marketing

MAY 30, 2018

SEO stands for search engine optimization , and SEM stands for search engine marketing. SEO experts focus on generating traffic and leads through organic search whereas SEM experts aim to generate traffic and leads through organic and paid search. When it comes to practicing SEO and SEM, it’s not an either/or–SEM actually includes SEO tactics. We’ll explain what both SEO and SEM experts do, rather than soley their differences, to help paint the picture for you.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 14, 2012

Consider just one category of searches: students conducting research projects. Whether its a junior high, high school or college student, researching anything from the paintings of Pablo Picasso to the writings of William Shakespeare to the mating habits of zebras, the odds of such of search resulting on a paid ad click are virtually zero. Discover the answers to these questions and many more here in 17 of the best AdWords and SEM guides of the past year.

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

To adapt to the rise of digital, the company needed a highly efficient platform to manage its massive portfolio of keywords and drive a higher volume of quality leads. Rather than attempting to manually manage its keyword portfolio, Lear Capital used QuanticMind’s intelligent automation to manage the company’s bidding for paid search advertising. The post How Predictive Advertising Management Massively Lifts SEM Profits, Revenue and Volume appeared first on QuanticMind.

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QuanticMind

MAY 31, 2018

If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. That seriously limits your keyword targeting opportunities compared to SEO. If you host a blog on your website, you can target all sorts of long-tail keywords related to questions people ask about your industry. But as long as you target relevant keywords with quality content, you should be able to quickly realize a return on your investment.

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QuanticMind

JUNE 20, 2017

As researched by BusinessInsider, US adults shopping for retail products spend more than half their shopping time on mobile but spend only 15% of their money via mobile. Social is also higher in the funnel, but research suggests a close correlation. SEM professionals have a variety of tactics and tools to target and shape their audiences, including Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSA) , Customer Match and retargeting via Google Display Network.

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Digilant

APRIL 24, 2019

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is the solution that, when navigated correctly, can increase a brand’s awareness by 80%. SEM is an effective, low-cost solution that marketers and media planners across industries are using to increase site traffic. By using Google Ads, (a popular SEM management platform,) any business has the ability to double their marketing investment. Long-Tail Keywords : Longer queries that are recorded in a website’s search bar.

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QuanticMind

AUGUST 2, 2016

One of the most important search engine marketing strategies is choosing the right keywords. Are you using these important SEM tools properly? As a search engine marketing pro, you’ve hopefully done your homework on keywords. Come to think of it, can you ever do enough when it comes to keywords, because keywords can be oh so fickle? That’s why all search engine marketers worth their salt are organized and diligent when it comes to minding the keyword farm.

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Webbiquity

JULY 10, 2018

Keyword Research Tools for SEO and SEM. Keyword research tools help you understand the specific words and phrases your potential future customers are using when they are seeking to solve the kinds of problems your product or service addresses, or for information about specific types and features of products relevant to your offerings. Among the most popular general keyword research tools are Wordtracker , HitTail , and KWFinder.

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ConvertKit

AUGUST 14, 2018

What is SEM (search engine marketing)? This is usually a line of keywords or a question that describes what they’re looking for. By optimizing your SEM (search engine marketing) strategy, you’re able to capture the attention of people who already are interested in what you offer. Let’s walk through what’s involved in each SEM tactic so you know how to use them to your advantage. This is why you need a bigger SEM strategy so you are spending advertising dollars wisely.

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