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Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 David Szetela	PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do.
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Search Engine Watch January 24, 2007 Patricia Hursh	Don't Click Here! Should You Pre-Qualify Clickers? B-to-B advertisers often pay high click costs to reach a very small and very specific group of potential buyers. More than anyone, they need to be sure the right people are clicking on their ads.
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Search Engine Watch July 9, 2010 Dan Yomtobian	Remarketing: Online's Misunderstood Conversion Tool Despite unfounded or exaggerated fears, remarketing actually works! Get educated on retargeting and turn your prospects into customers.
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Search Engine Watch October 7, 2004 Catherine Seda	Contextual Ads: Vital to a Search Marketing Campaign? Are you bidding on keywords through Overture's Precision Match, Google's AdWords or another pay-for-placement service? If so, you're eligible to participate in their contextual advertising programs.
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Search Engine Watch January 14, 2004 Christine Churchill	Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular keyword-based search results and ads has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community. Will Google follow suit?
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Search Engine Watch July 25, 2006 Jennifer Slegg	Analyzing the Google AdWords Landing Page Algorithm Google's pricing for AdWords includes a component that looks at the content of landing pages, and a recent change that has caused price increases is proving controversial in the search marketing community.
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