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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

ConversionXL

However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough. For example, if my PPC advertising is consistent over an 8 week period, I can make a flawed but useful comparison of the before and after effects – because I’m comparing a segment rather than ‘all traffic behaviour’. Word-of-Mouth.

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Why Your Business Needs An App

YoungUpstarts

In our internet-obsessed world, business owners need to understand things like search engine optimization (SEO, which is the practice of making a web presence as appealing as possible to search engines ) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements. Having an app is a key part of reaching customers in the age of smartphones.

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How To Prepare Your Business For Black Friday

YoungUpstarts

In addition, the national unemployment rate is down, and jobless claims recently fell to their lowest level since 2007. With pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, you cre­ate small ads that promote your Black Friday specials and place them on search engines. All of this adds up to increased consumer confidence and spending.

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Blending Paid Social with Organic Social :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

While initial social media initiatives were focused primarily on building and engaging in organic ways, smart marketers are now adding paid campaign support to the social mix very much like search engine marketing relies on PPC ad support. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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How To Convert Visitors Who Are Considering Switching From a Competitor

ConversionXL

When it won the Grand Effie in 2007, jury chair John Butler said (emphasis mine): “They managed to do it with humor, class, and honesty without falling into the trap of overtly negative competitive advertising” This is perhaps the most important element when doing any kind of competitive testing in your campaigns.

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The Complete Small Business Marketer's SEO Toolkit :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

This is where you can get reports on the pages Google is crawling, where you might have broken links, the status of your site maps and any issues Google might be encountering with your site. [link] SpyFu – As the name implies this tool aims at helping you understand what a site is doing related to PPC advertising and specifically AdWords.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Tip#4: Make Your Analysis/Reports "Connectable" Tip#3: Turbocharge Your SEM/PPC Analysis. 2007 Predictions: Web Analytics. Web Analytics Demystified. Six Data Visualizations That Rock!

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