Search Engine Marketing Budgeting

[mandy]

In your battle to budget for paid search, you are likely to run into challenges from colleagues and superiors, including some of the following:

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      Search doesn't bring us new customers; all our orders come from searches on our brand name.
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      We have a strong organic presence on a number of keywords; it's a waste of money to pay for traffic when we are already getting it for free.
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      We can spend less by just moving our ads down from position 3 to position 7; we can still get the same amount of search traffic and look how much money we'll save.

The challenges are numerous, largely because paid-search marketing is an arena of infinite scenarios, and you simply cannot plan for all of them...

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