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The Ultimate Guide to SEM (Search Engine Marketing)

Hubspot

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.

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The importance of accurate keyword difficulty scores

ClickZ

Keyword difficulty (KD) is an essential metric to assist marketers in formulating an effective SEO strategy for reaching the top of search engine results pages (SERP). Focusing on a keyword with a low KD score can achieve faster results with traffic from search engines as there is less competition.

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Baidu Limits PPC Ad Space: What This Means for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Take a look at the new layout of Baidu’s search engine results page: Implications for B2B Marketers. These major changes have only been in place for about a week, but it will affect search engine marketing in China going forward for B2B marketers. Recommendations for Search Engine Marketers.

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SEO vs. SEM: This is a Silly Fight. They Are Both Amazing

Conductor

SEM stands for search engine marketing. Search engine marketing is the full umbrella of search marketing. SEM includes paid search and organic search. With paid search, there is opportunity to explore buying broad or broad modified keywords. What is SEM? Does SEO help SEM?

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How Can Paid Media Boost Your Inbound Marketing Efforts?

SmartBug Media

Using Google Ads to accelerate inbound marketing is an extremely effective way to target keywords that our products don’t organically rank in the top placement of SERPs for,” Sara Breeding , director of marketing at Axosoft, said. Use SEO and SEM strategies to compete for rankings.

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7 Ways SEO & PPC Can Work Together in 2021

Hubspot

You need to study the search results closely if you want to master the art of understanding keyword intent. Google often signals their own interpretation of a search term, based on the types of results. Remarkety - hoping that a subset of searchers might be interested in SMS marketing solutions. What's the bottom line?

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Balancing SEO and PPC to Maximize Search Results

Webbiquity

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. That pitfall is paid search. Guest post by Max DesMarais.

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