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Report: Marketers Struggling with Both Paid & Organic Search

KoMarketing Associates

Merkle recently published its “Digital Marketing Report” for the second quarter of 2021. Statistics suggested that marketers’ spend on paid search rose 8.7% year-over-year, despite a 19% drop in click growth. On the other end of the spectrum, organic search is not yielding ideal results for marketers.

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Seven Expert Search Engine Marketing Guides

Webbiquity

Done properly, search engine marketing (a.k.a. SEM, paid search, PPC) is a powerful complement to SEO and an effective tactic on its own. Discover the answers to these questions and others here in seven noteworthy search engine marketing guides from the past year.

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Client Spotlight: Launch Delivers Search Engine Marketing Results

Launch Marketing

Launch’s client is a mid-market security organization that protects devices, data, applications and users from evolving cyber threats with proprietary technology, algorithms and expertise. With momentum and effective measurement now in place, the organization is poised to continue getting more from its search engine marketing efforts.

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Video Tech Company Leverages SEM to Drive Enterprise Leads

The Point

Spear’s engagement began with an audit and assessment of the pilot campaign, to gauge what learnings could be gleaned from the experiment, and also to help provide baseline data on which to project Cost Per Click (CPC) and potential ROI. Average Cost Per Click decreased by more than 60 percent.

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Survey: 70% of Digital Marketers are Measuring the ROI of Campaigns ‘Too Quickly’

KoMarketing Associates

According to the survey, only 4% of digital marketers measure ROI over a period of six months or longer. In addition to measuring too soon, marketers appear to be mixing metrics. Nearly 42% of marketers with a lead generation objective claim to use Cost-Per-Click (CPC) as a metric.

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5 Most Common Fails in B2B Search Campaigns

The Point

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. Thanks to Spear Digital Media Director Tim DiSabatino for authoring this week’s post.

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The Website Redesign Guide for Search Engine Marketers

QuanticMind

Website redesigns often require reconstructing at least part of a site from scratch, which can send search engine marketers back to square one. Given this, if you’re a search engine marketer in charge of a site that’s going to be redesigned, you need a plan for surviving the website redesign.