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Why Content Marketing Beats Advertising (Almost) Every Time

Marketing Insider Group

While many marketing tactics can generate quantifiable business results, some do it better than others. A recent survey supports this, as 70% of marketers believe SEO is much better than PPC at generating sales. Positive ROAS (return on ad spend) is minimal for companies. Content marketing ROI wins this round.

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5 Simple Steps to Develop an Effective PPC Strategy

QuanticMind

Okay, you’ve just landed your dream job as an SEM professional and your boss is now asking you to deliver your “PPC strategy” — you know that brilliant, airtight strategy you put together that’s going to help your boss (and your company) not only to meet their business objectives, but also exceed them? But there’s one small problem.

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How to craft a winning Search Engine Land Awards entry: Past judges share their advice

Martech

It sounds simple, but the entries that are goal-oriented rather than focused on tactics are always strongest.” “When entries have a new take on a situation or feature and talk about into how their strategy is different from the norm, and demonstrate why is their strategy or tactics are award-worthy.”

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Why is My PPC Performance Bad? Part III: How to Ensure You’re Optimizing Towards the Correct Metric

QuanticMind

At this point, you should be a wizard (or wizardess) when it comes to troubleshooting PPC performance issues. Taking the same principles as ROAS, you would bid higher on keywords generating more conversions, and down on keywords generating fewer conversions. Why is My PPC Performance Bad? The post Why is My PPC Performance Bad?

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SEO vs PPC: How to Prioritize Your SEM Strategies

QuanticMind

Prioritizing investment in SEO vs PPC is far from a new challenge for marketers today. If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. PPC has its strengths and so does SEO, but very few businesses are prepared to invest 100% in both from day one.

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You’re Doing Retargeting Wrong: Here’s How to Fix It

Convince & Convert

Did you know that of all the targeting options you have when it comes to PPC, retargeting can be the most effective one? In a study by InSkin Media and RAPP, retargeting a redundant message across multiple PPC channels was found to frustrate visitors more than delight. In fact, this tactic will work with content promotion, too.

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SEO vs PPC: How to Prioritize Your SEM Strategies in 2018

QuanticMind

Prioritizing investment in SEO vs PPC is far from a new challenge for marketers today. If you want to start improving your SEM strategy overall, here’s everything you need to know about prioritizing SEO vs PPC in 2018. PPC has its strengths and so does SEO, but very few businesses are prepared to invest 100% in both from day one.

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