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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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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Marty Zwilling.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? You may be getting a lot of conversions, but the CPA can kill you. Notice above I only have two CPA values. It is not possible to force people down that path!

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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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.

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Website Ads are Not a Revenue Stream for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you live in this world every day, you are probably as confused as I was by the different advertising models, so let me outline the common ones: Pay per click (PPC). The advertiser side is called cost per action (CPA) or cost per lead (CPL). To better understand these realities, let’s clarify some terminology.

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. But identification is not organization.

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