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7 PPC Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them)

ConversionXL

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. For starters, if a non-parent Tweets out, “you gotta check out this baby stoller&# it’s obvious that it won’t be very authentic.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

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Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Conclusion.

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How to Generate More Sales From Your Email Marketing Campaigns

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Compared to social media and content marketing, email is a mature channel for engaging online consumers. While you should not use social share buttons on your actual landing page because it introduces a competing call to action, the thank you page presents a great opportunity to increase awareness through social sharing. read more

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. No amount of great multi channel tracking will save this company, they suck at the basics. They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. All free from Compete. That's sucking.

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Two Amazing Bar Charts: % Content Consumption, % Share of Search

Occam's Razor

But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. An obsession with SEO and PPC is pretty much warranted in most companies, across platforms (desktop, mobile – it is particularly heartbreaking how poor most companies do on mobile platforms). I understand.

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

Occam's Razor

As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. So three valuable metrics, and two distributions ppc/organic (though I have to admit this is weakest element in SimilarWeb) and traffic sources.

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