Search Marketing
Search Marketing is the process of acquiring traffic or customers via search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others.
Search marketing generally involves two disciplines: SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing).
The former focuses on acquiring customers via visibility in natural/organic search results, and the latter focuses on acquiring customers by placing paid ads on search result pages.
Marketing Land covers major search marketing news and strategic advice in the area. Our sister-site, Search Engine Land provides in-depth news coverage, analysis and lots of tips and tactics.
Our wake-up call to improve an industry
If you change nothing, nothing will ever change. We’re making it our primary goal to improve advertising technology. We’re facing down the...
Should marketers own programmatic accounts as they do with SEM & Social?
Contributor Kevin Lee discusses the pros and cons of large brands bringing some elements of programmatic media...
SMX Advanced recap: Audience targeting in a privacy-centric world
Contributor Keri Morgret recaps a session covering new developments in audience targeting and how tracking changes will affect the way you use...
Turning Your Data Into Compelling Stories – SMX Advanced Recap
Want to know how to turn unorganized data into compelling presentations? Contributor Keri Morgret recaps three SMX Advanced speakers as they...
Ask the #SMXpert: Smart B2B SEM Tactics
If you have a question on A/B split testing or are having challenges with ABM targeting on paid search, read on. Contributor Brad Geddes answers...
SMX Advanced 2018 Session Recap: Storytelling with Social Ads that Sell
Contributor Joe Martinez recaps a session of rock-star paid social media marketers sharing how you can use social media to engage, entertain and...
LiveRamp brings its search targeting to Bing Ads
A year after offering its people-based search targeting through Google, the identity resolution provider is now providing a similar service for...
Google updates ‘Ad Settings’ to allow users to turn off targeting signals
Google is also extending 'Why this ad?' notices to all services that display Google Ads, including YouTube, Google Play, Gmail, Maps and partner...
How will GDPR affect PPC marketers in the US?
Those in the US may think, 'This won’t affect me, I only do paid search marketing.' Contributor Manny Rivas suggests you reconsider and...
If you’re not updating ROAS and CPA targets frequently, you’re missing out
Our founding CEO, Fred Vallaeys, has written extensively about how the role of PPC experts will change as more of the day-to-day ad management...
Ask the #SMXperts series — Advanced audience targeting
In this extended Q&A from SMX West, #SMXperts Jillian Nagle and Ben Wood look at creative ways to create audiences, leverage search and social...
Search is more than Google: Mastering vertical search optimization
Vertical search engines, mobile and voice trends seem to be reshaping the search landscape, says contributor Jim Yu. Create a cohesive content...
Six Google Shopping opportunities you may be overlooking
As of Q1 2018, Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend, eclipsing text ads in markets around the world. As these...
Ask the #SMXperts series — B2B SEM: Meeting challenges with smart tactics
Three very smart SMXperts share their knowledge on cross-channel tracking, LinkedIn strategies and more in this extended Q&A session from SMX...
Ask an #SMXpert: LinkedIn ads and search — The ultimate knockout punch
How much should you spend testing LinkedIn ads? Does search intent trump social engagement? Ask the SMXpert and contributor AJ Wilcox gives...
Attention + intensity: Tips for navigating the new age of media strategy
Contributor Mark Williams says marketers must evolve the metrics they monitor to keep up with the changing media-consumption environment....
Link building is complicated: A rebuttal
Contributor Andrew Dennis (kinda) disagrees with a previously published SEL article and offers his view on why link building may be...
Has Amazon ended its Google Shopping campaigns?
Reports from digital marketing firm Merkle show Amazon's Shopping campaigns slowed after end of Q1, stopped abruptly April...
The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling — Part Two
Next up in a series on bots and why crawl budgets are important, Columnist Stephan Spencer explains how to direct the engine bots to what's...
How to use good ol’ PPC to support fun and creative branded content
Contributor Kevin Lee looks at creative synergies and the power of collaboration to increase the efficiency of branded content using PPC...
