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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per action (CPA).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per action (CPA).

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PPC Automation: Is the Future of Paid Search Already Here?

ConversionXL

Will PPC look like this in 2020? Nonetheless, there are some amazing automation opportunities that make the life of Marketing Managers, CMOs, and PPC experts quicker and more efficient—especially for fast-growing companies that need to scale their campaigns. PPC automation is a massive topic. Probably not. Ad Testing.

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7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns

ConversionXL

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Achieved CPAs that were 34% cheaper than non-brand search campaigns. Here are a few of them: Lead volume went up 81% despite a 30% PPC budget cut.

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

searchengineland.com

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Conversion. Search & Display.

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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. Identifying other indicators for intent will help you reach more ready-to-buy people with a CPA that’s similar to your best-performing audiences. Ease of implementation.