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Vote Now for Search Marketing Madness Sweet 16!

After a crazy week of voting, the final 16 entrants in this year’s Search Marketing Madness have been decided (you can see the full bracket here).  It’s now up to you to decide who should move on to the Elite …

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Google AdWords Picks the Final Four Champion

Okay, so it’s not AdWords directly who’s picking the winner, but I put together a new statistic to rank each and every team in the NCAA Men’s Tournament by some of the metrics that matter in PPC: namely search volume …

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Finalist: Optimizing and Targeting for User Behavior

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Jeremy Estes currently works on the paid search team at Standing Dog Interactive in Dallas, Texas. When I first started building PPC campaigns, 7 or 8 …

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Finalist: The Secret PPC Matrix Before the Click

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Raymond Smit is Co-Owner of Nico’s Kitchens in South Africa. Many Adwords users are trapped inside a matrix they don’t yet know exists. They choose keywords, …

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Finalist: Man vs Machine: Is Automated Bidding Software Right for You?

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Jacob Sterrett is the digital marketing specialist for Pioneer Services. In theory automated bidding systems are a great tool. You set your target metric, assign it …

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Finalist: Are You Using Google’s Negative Broad Match Keywords Correctly?

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Lauren Page is a Senior Paid Search Manager at Vivid Seats in Chicago, Illinois.   Keyword match types are one of the first things you must …

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Finalist: Labeling Your Search Funnel

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Bruno Giosa is a paid search manager with Eotica in Brazil. Lately there is a lot of talk about search funnels, how do they work, how …

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Managers & Software – Search Marketing Madness Round One

Only two days into this year’s bracket things are already heating up.  If you want to vote on blogs and conferences, you can still do that until Monday, March 18th. Today the competition begins for both PPC managers and PPC …

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Search Marketing Madness is Upon Us! Vote for Round One.

It is officially tournament time. This week is round one of 2013 Search Marketing Madness.  Voting will commence today in the conference and blog regionals (in the content half of the bracket).  Votes will be accepted until Monday, March 18th …

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Write in Your Nominees for Search Marketing Madness

While it may be more obvious to us here in Bloomington, Indiana than to a lot of the world, March Madness is ramping up.  Conference tournaments next week, the committee meets and breaks the hearts of/delights a handful of teams …