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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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Search Engine Optimization Algorithm Changes For 2017

YoungUpstarts

Search engine optimization is a practice used to help your website rank higher in the search results fields of major search engines. Although keywords are important, it is more important to understand what your audience is searching for and how they are using these searches.”. PPC is Essential.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

If you’ve ever thought about running a PPC campaign for the first time, there’s a good chance you were wondering which PPC channel to use. The PPC targeting options that Facebook has available are different from Google AdWords, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the abundance of other PPC marketing networks you have available.

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Why Keyword Themes +Modified Broad Match = Winning PPC Strategy

ConversionXL

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Relevance of Keywords to Search Queries. Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Does the user’s search query appear in the landing page?

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Want to Reduce CPA? Try Machine Learning–Driven Retargeting.

ConversionXL

From Google’s Session Quality and Conversion Probability reports to related smart retargeting platforms, machine-learning segments users like no PPC manager can. For the report above, compare Paid Search and Display. But Display’s average Session Quality is way higher than Search, even though Search resulted in more transactions.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

E.g. Message match / headline match from PPC ad to landing page. Search dropdown. Jakub Linowski: Searching for Repeating Conversion Patterns: What Can Multiple Tests Tell Us? Test functionality before you try to harvest fruits. Start typing a search term. Look for discrepancies between paid and natural search.