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🔍 International PPC tips

Aug 03, 2020

Good morning Search Marketer, are you ready to go international?

If you're looking to tap into or support international markets with paid search and or social campaigns, be sure to take the time to plan accordingly. Expanding search campaigns into international markets involves quite a bit more than duplicating your existing campaigns and changing the targeting.

Costs, CPAs and lead quality can vary widely by country, so be sure you have measuring and reporting processes in place to ensure you're achieving value from these new regions, says Tim Jenson of Clix Marketing, along with other tips for making your international expansions more successful.

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Ginny Marvin,
Editor-In-Chief

Pro Tip

SEOs should care about brand, says Robin Lord, a consultant at Distilled/Brainlabs.

As an SEO, you're likely judged on how many valuable sessions you can bring to the site through Google organic traffic.

If you are just reporting on total organic sessions, that number will include the sessions where people have searched -—x generic product name— or —y topic we've targeted by a blog post—. But they will also include sessions where people have searched for your brand and, understandably, clicked through to your site.

That means that if more people start searching for your brand, you get more traffic. Great, you look good. It also means that if fewer people are searching for your brand then you look bad.

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