DMNews essential guide to search marketing

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Use “click bot” or “doorway page” as party conversation and, unless you’re at an industry function, you’ll probably get blank stares. But you’ll want to know all this juicy jargon as you move forward with any search marketing campaign. These are just a few terms to make you sound like a search expert. By Jonathan Mack results pages (SERP) to augment click amounts. :c`Zbk_ifl^_ When a user enters a Web site from a hypertext link listed on a SERP. :c`Zb$k_ifl^_ iXk\ :KI The percentage of people who actually click on a link out of the all the users who view the link.

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