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How to Get Your SEO and PPC Teams on the Same Page

ConversionXL

You wouldn’t hire a brain surgeon to treat your heart condition. PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? It’s the same for search engine marketing.

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

Occam's Razor

A lot of the keywords I used to add to my campaigns came from the long, long tail I saw in my organic search data (I would take the best performers there and use PPC to get more traffic) and from competitive intelligence research. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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Why Paid Search Must Be Part of Your Mix

Duct Tape Marketing

And I discovered that the first page of results on Google was filled with paid search and aggregator results (things like Angie’s list and Yelp). While it might be tempting for you to hand over full control to a PPC firm, that’s risky. Do you research on PPC firms. Focus on Purchase Intent.

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What is Structured Data & Schema for Websites & SEO?

Duct Tape Marketing

A common (and highly coveted) example of a rich snippet is when you see a star rating review or aggregate rating review show up right on the Google search results page. Aggregate Star Review Ratings in search results. Product ratings in Search results. Event details that appear in search results.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Tip#4: Make Your Analysis/Reports "Connectable" Tip#3: Turbocharge Your SEM/PPC Analysis. Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try! Find Love (/Insights).

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Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and For All

View from Seed

Similarly, the value of a blog is how much work each post does for you in aggregate. Show me a PPC campaign capable of doing that. Either way, the value of your blog is actually all of those posts working together in aggregate, especially in the longtail, not the head. Now that’s ROI! So what was happening?

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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