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Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela	Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data.
Search Engine Watch September 14, 2010 Garry Przyklenk	The MEGA List of Free and Paid SEO Tools the Professionals Use Rankings, link analysis, trends, keyword research, metrics, and beyond -- we've compiled a list of must-have free/paid tools, toolbars, and browser plug-ins for all SEO professionals.
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Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson	Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.
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