The eternal question for businesses both large and small: should you run your marketing in-house, or should you hire an expert? There are numerous factors to take into account including level of expertise, the complexity of the campaign, existing internal…
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Drive customer retention with Google Dynamic Remarketing
With all this gushing about PPC and Google Remarketing campaigns, I strongly feel the need to let you know that I am not to be romanticized or this isn’t a sponsored post. I enjoy following remarketing best practices, and I’d…
Using automation to boost PPC performance
Learn how automating bid management, scripts, error checking, reporting and ad copy can help marketers harness the power of automation to succeed in the fast-paced world of PPC. The number of advertising networks, features and management tools available to PPC…
Bing’s ‘Quest for Intelligent Search’ at SMX East
Search has come a long way and, in a keynote talk Wednesday, Christi Olson and Frederic Dubut painted a picture of what the future might hold. The first SEO-related keynote at SMX East this week came from the Bing team…
Search engines still dominate over social media, even for millennials
New research suggests when information gathering really matters, users turn to search engines. For many years people have been proclaiming the demise of traditional search traffic and the death of the SEO industry that supports it. While Google has posted…
SMX East session recap: Aligning marketing with your customer journey
The session offered a sophisticated blueprint to calibrate marketing, sales and content for different personas at each stage of the buyer journey. NEW YORK – Aligning Your Messaging and Marketing With the Customer Journey, a session at the SMX East…
Loose match types, bid-caching, and getting what you pay for in digital marketing
When a lack of advertiser control — whatever the platform’s motives — results in unintended purchases, trust inevitably erodes. As new close variants start trickling into search query reports, paid search marketers are still peeved at Google’s decision to expand…
The future of negative SEO, Part 6
Now that you know how to identify, prevent, stop and recover from a Negative SEO attack, here’s a look toward possible future threats you should arm yourself to fight. Now that you know how to identify, prevent, stop and recover…
When your ad testing strategy is just plain wrong
Rigorously testing your ads is a good thing… unless you’re testing the wrong things and tweaking your campaigns based on flawed conclusions. It’s a truism you often see repeated here at Search Engine Land and at industry conferences: You need…
New SEM Trade Organization?
A very detailed oriented thread is going on at Cre8asite Forums named After SEMPO: Should we Start a Trade Association?. With over a 146 replies so far, this can be the real thing. So join the discussion and have a…