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Inside Adwords: Exploring The Differences Between Smart Display Campaigns & Custom Intent Campaigns

Stevens & Tate

It’s why Google AdWords continues to be popular with advertisers. Let’s take a closer look inside AdWords to discover some of their newer PPC options, including their smart display ads and their custom intent ads. Inside AdWords’ Smart Display Ads Smart display ads are ads that are automated by Google.

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8 Actionable Tips to Optimize Your AdWords Performance Today

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The fact that Google receives the most global ad revenue every year tells advertisers that AdWords reigns as the ultimate acquisition channel. It also highlights that competition is stiff in search engine marketing. As marketers, we’re always looking for a way to get ahead of the competition. would take forever.

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Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

QuanticMind

However, many marketers are still relying on the bid optimization tools that Google and Bing provide, even those with decent SEM budgets (~$50k). These publisher optimization tools and best practices like “Estimated first-page bid recommendations” and “Smart bidding” end up increasing our CPA and thinning our margins on those top keywords.

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What B2B’s Need to Know About The Adwords Live Stream

EMagine B2B Blog

Two weeks ago was the most exciting day of the year for paid search nerds! May 4th felt similar to the night before Christmas as search marketers around the globe anxiously awaited the first Adwords live stream event in years. Better CPA Bidding. Dynamic Search Ads. Talk about a time saver.

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How to Avoid Underspending and Overspending Your SEM Budget

QuanticMind

Poor Adwords budget management can lead to missed performance targets. Problems that Cause Adwords Overspending and Underspending. Here’s how to address some of the biggest problems that cause Adwords overspending or underspending: Setting Your Budget Too Low. Numerous factors can contribute to poor SEM budget spend.

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Ego Bidding: Why Paying for #1 Position on Google Costs You More Than You Think

The Point

Additionally, if that domination can’t quickly or easily be achieved through organic means (via Search Engine Optimization), then at minimum the mandate is normally to ensure that the company’s search ad appears at the top of the page.

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Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing

WebMarketCentral

Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? How do you write a killer search ad? What should you look for when hiring a paid search agency? Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008.