The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

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

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Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Campaigns Cost Per Click 235

The Point

AUGUST 27, 2019

In a remarkably short time, LinkedIn has grown to become a major player in B2B advertising (at about 20% of total industry spend, according to industry watchers ), quickly rivaling search advertising on Google. Non-Content Offers. 8 Common LinkedIn Advertising Mistakes #paidsocial Click To Tweet. Stale Creative.

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Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks of optimizing paid search campaigns. From keyword sweeps and bid adjustments to audience targeting and ad refreshes, there’s always something demanding your attention. Should we be running brand campaigns?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Long Tail Marketing Cost Per Click 65

SalesIntel

AUGUST 14, 2023

As marketing leaders, we often find ourselves navigating the challenging landscape of justifying ad spending to our CFOs. The age-old debate of whether marketing efforts genuinely contribute to the bottom line can leave us feeling like we speak a different language. But fear not, my fellow marketers!

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ClearVoice

JUNE 27, 2022

This is why strategies like search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) play such an important role in digital marketing. Moreover, both strategies rely heavily on good content, which is why the three should work seamlessly together to create a bigger impact.

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SEM Paid Content Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 52

Search Engine Journal

MARCH 1, 2023

Learn how organic strategies can help drive paid marketing strategies that will boost your overall ROI. The post 5 Ways To Combine SEO & SEM For More Effective Marketing ROI appeared first on Search Engine Journal. And vice versa.

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Brandpoint

JANUARY 23, 2020

Google AdWords – now named Google Ads – is one of the most useful methods out there for getting traffic to your website. It’s also a great investment for researching the keywords you can use to enhance and inform your traditional content marketing efforts. She regularly contributes posts for Search Engine Watch and The SEM Post.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Online marketing is evolving each day with newer trends and challenges. But thankfully, marketing isn’t a lonely ride. There are several internet marketing experts and online marketing professionals who have thrived in the recent times. Table of Contents 1. Social Media Marketing + Michael A.

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Search Engine Journal

JUNE 23, 2022

Follow the best practices outlined in this article to maximize the reach, impact, and value of your paid search campaigns. The post 6 SEM Best Practices Growth Marketers Need To Master appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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SEM Growth Marketing Practices Best Practices 96

DemandBase

JANUARY 8, 2019

Can search engine marketing (SEM) target specific accounts and minimize waste from unqualified respondents? SEM by definition is a top-of-funnel, quantity-focused channel. No technology currently exists that uses SEM to target accounts. How can you leverage SEM to aid and abet Account-Based Marketing?

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Account Based Marketing DemandBase SEM Paid Search Agency 58

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 23, 2013

A recent study released by eBay, “ Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment ” refutes the value of paid search and claims an overall ineffectiveness both of branded and non-branded keyword ads. Brand Advertising. Study Takeaways. This is probably true.

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Paid Search Agency Search Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Webbiquity

JUNE 23, 2015

Social may be sexy, but search still pays the bills. As reported below, organic search drives 51% of all visitors to both B2B and and B2C Web sites, while paid-search drives 10% (and social 5%, on average). 89% of customers begin their buying process with a search engine. Digital Marketing Philippines ).

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing is an advertising model where advertisers pay a fee each time a user clicks one of their ads. LinkedIn Ads is typically the best paid social media channel for B2B while many online marketers go to Google Ads for search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns.

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Paid Content PPC Optimization B2B Marketing 113

Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2016

Search remains the cornerstone of digital and content marketing efforts. The average B2B website gets 40% or more of all visits from organic search, and 81% of B2B purchase cycles start with a web search. Of course, search, like all other digital marketing tactics, continues to evolve. Internet users.

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ConvertKit

AUGUST 14, 2018

How many times a day do you search for an answer on Google? Knowing this causes us to trust Google and come back to its search engine again and again. Knowing this causes us to trust Google and come back to its search engine again and again. What is SEM (search engine marketing)? SEO vs PPC.

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. The Risks of Over-Reliance on Late-Stage Content Click To Tweet.

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Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Buying Cycle Demand Generation Agencies 207

Brightedge

MAY 7, 2021

Using SEM and SEO together will drive traffic using both organic and paid strategies. Creating data-driven content that is fresh, unique and informative for users, not bots, will help drive ranks. Well-developed content that provides real value to readers is one of the most crucial parts of SEO. What is SEM?

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Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 8, 2024

The last time you took an objective look at your company’s business marketing strategy, what was your takeaway? If using micro-moments, storytelling and video aren’t part of your plan, let’s re-visit these digital marketing trends and their importance in every business strategy now. What’s working?

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Trends Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Paid Search Agency 123

ClearVoice

JUNE 28, 2021

As you build your career in content marketing, you should challenge yourself to create new desirable skill sets. Over the past several years, becoming SEO and SEM savvy has grown in importance to remain relevant and build a lucrative career. How SEO and SEM work together. What SEM is. How SEO and SEM are alike.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The lack of an appropriate and complete tracking system is one of the most common errors, or omissions, that B2B marketers make in setting up a paid search program. The foundation of a strong search campaign is knowing what you want to achieve. Your search campaign should measure: 1. It’s easy to see why.

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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. That pitfall is paid search. That’s why the best digital marketers supplement SEO tactics with targeted PPC to yield top results.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2017

This is especially true for technology marketers, and doubly true for those in nascent or emerging categories, when much of the marketing challenge may consist of convincing buyers that they have a problem to solve in the first place. The post Expand your Offer Strategy to Increase SEM Performance appeared first on The Point.

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Search Engine Journal

MARCH 18, 2021

SEO and SEM together can produce better results than one or the other. Learn more about paid search incrementality and see it in action. The post How Paid Search Incrementality Impacts SEO (Does 1+1=3?) via @jonkagan appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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SEO SEM Search Marketing Analytics 95

SmartBug Media

MAY 6, 2020

The most effective SaaS marketing departments employ paid, owned, and earned media channels. For growing SaaS organizations that are doing inbound marketing , paid marketing channels can give you the awareness to put all of that great content to work. Paid Search. Display Ads.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Channels Effectiveness 109

Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I just discovered that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) isn’t just a rebrand of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a marketing discipline that is almost universally damned as being shifty, black-hat, and more than just a little shady.

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Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing SEM Enterprise Management 80

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 1, 2016

On May 24, Chinese search engine Baidu made significant changes to the configuration of its paid advertising, including limiting the amount of ads that appear on the search engine results page. These changes will have lasting implications for B2B marketers. The advertising on the right has been eliminated.

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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. Write your ads.

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Over the last decade, there has been an extraordinary growth of technology that empowers marketers to collect and then leverage troves of data across each of the varying stages of their buying cycle. Of course, being data-driven is much trickier than it would first appear.

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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.

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Martech

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Content has become the primary tool we use to create a dialogue with our prospects and cultivate online customer relationships. That content must be relevant, valuable and interactive to win their attention and draw them into a conversation. In reality, content has always been the best way to do marketing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 7, 2016

Search marketing done right lands your site the first listing on Google or Bing results, but the consequences of search done wrong are much, much worse: In January 2016, the founder of a search agency in Texas was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his shady practices. The search industry changes quickly.

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Search Marketing Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Ethics 110

Spiralytics

MARCH 24, 2019

Nowadays, digital marketing is something you really should explore to achieve your bottom line, and a channel that you may consider utilizing is Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or search advertising. It takes a solid strategy to grow your small business.

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SEM Small Business Marketing Business PPC 54

QuanticMind

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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. Paid advertising marketer.

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Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing SEM 43

Spiralytics

JULY 8, 2018

Full-fledged marketers know better than to think that search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) operate in a silo, as if they don’t affect one another, however indirectly.

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SEM SEO Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing 69

Conductor

OCTOBER 28, 2019

SEM is also… amazing. What can they help you achieve with your marketing? SEO stands for search engine optimization. The ultimate goal of search engine optimization is to create a consistent flow of traffic from searchers to the pages that address their queries. Content does not create itself. What is SEM?

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SEM SEO Long Tail Marketing SERP 68

Biznology

DECEMBER 2, 2013

One question we have gotten from our retail clients for years at The Search Monitor is: “How does my ad spend on SEM compare to the average for my retail category, and to other retail categories?” We wanted to find out how ad spend differed by retailer. But it’s free for a reason. It just isn’t precise.

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Spending SEM Advertising Agencies Verticals 80

Biznology

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One question we have gotten from our retail clients for years at The Search Monitor is: “How does my ad spend on SEM compare to the average for my retail category, and to other retail categories?” We wanted to find out how ad spend differed by retailer. But it’s free for a reason. It just isn’t precise.

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Spending SEM Advertising Agencies Verticals 80