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Why Keyword Themes +Modified Broad Match = Winning PPC Strategy

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Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Having Broad and Modified Broad keywords increases your odds of Google interpreting your keyword as a match to someone’s query.

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PPC Basics Explained — PPC Management for Small Businesses

Up and Running

Because pay-per-click advertising (PPC) needs to be an option you consider in order to reach your customers and stay competitive online. In this article, we will cover what exactly PPC marketing entails, why PPC marketing is a beneficial tool for small businesses, and some PPC basics and best practices to get you started.

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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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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

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That’s called a broad match modifier, and it’s one of four match types: Broad match. With a broad match type, someone could type your keywords out of order in the search bar, and your ads will still display. Broad match will generally generate the most traffic, but your ads will be less targeted. Phrase match.

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

Occam's Razor

But the first thing you'll note are the big mis-matches. Now, be aware that we are not looking for a perfect straight line match. But, you don't want vast mis-matches either. Yet your magnificent search strategy (SEO + PPC) resulted in you capturing such a small percentage of the demand! Not good either.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

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So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Still not convinced?

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Amazon SEO Isn’t Google SEO: 6 Differences That Matter

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You search for a product, and the first result is the perfect match for your needs. They’re the primary way that search engines match user needs to web content. Google has always pushed webmasters to optimize for the user—to match intent and solve user problems. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was.

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