Podcast 283 - Search Engine Marketing

Episode31 min2015-08-26

Search engine marketing combines SEO and PPC to target customers at every stage of a complex sales funnel, and CMOs should use SEM for testing, remarketing, branding, and tying online campaigns to offline efforts.

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Key takeaways
SEM is a highly controllable and highly customizable channel.

About this episode

Welcome to the most popular internet marketing podcast on iTunes, hosted by E-Webstyle! Join us this week as we talk about:Is NAP Consistency Really ImportantSearch Engine MarketingSearch Intent

Questions this episode answers

How can remarketing be used beyond following users with ads for products they already viewed?

The episode explains you can use remarketing for branding with display ads showing your logo and color scheme, for promoting new services to existing audiences, and for showing past buyers ads about related products, covering nearly every stage of the sales funnel.

In their words

today you can use SEM for awareness, consideration, purchasing, nurturing, amplification, recalling, upselling, reselling, and so on.

Charles Lewis

Quickest way to test the market. Designate a specific demographic you want to go after. Throw some Google AdWords budget to it. Create some nice ads. Create your landing page. And watch it for 30 days.

Charles Lewis

your offline marketing and your online marketing should co-exist. And they can, especially with search engine marketing.

Charles Lewis
Terms defined in this episode
SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
The combination of SEO and PPC, covering any active effort to target keywords and run paid campaigns through search engines.
Attribution
The process of crediting a sale or conversion to the correct channel or touchpoint, such as a PPC ad, social click, or direct visit, in a multi-step user journey.
Remarketing
Showing targeted ads to users who have previously visited your site, used to nudge purchases, build brand awareness, or promote related products at multiple funnel stages.
NAP Consistency
Keeping a business name, address, and phone number identical across all online directories and citation sources to support accurate local search indexing.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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