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[Infographic] Is SEO Or SEM Better For Online Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEM for Beginners.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. Do you have a customer referral program?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Similarly, it probably makes sense for everyone to take advantage of SEO (hey, its nearly-free traffic). But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can be split into two search strategies: Pay-Per-Click (PPC) refers to how your company bids on keywords that represent the intent of what the customer is looking for, leveraging marketing spend to gain visibility by securing placement at the highest ranks within the search engines. Social Marketing.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. This person is also creative, curious and always looking for new ways to engage our customers.

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Small Business Marketing Guide: Types of Traditional and Online Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC). SEO focuses on optimizing the site to increase the site’s ranking in search engine results (SERPs) so that more customers will click on the results and visit the company’s site. Display Ads.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. While it has a direct impact on traffic it also helps with overall SEO, brand recognition, and it allows you to brag on your website and on your ads, which improves conversion rates. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive).

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