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How To Promote Your Business Using Thematic Campaigns: Semrush Case Study

How do you promote your product when there’s nothing new to report? In this post, you‘ll learn some of the cheapest and quickest ways to entertain your users and get them to test your product. Explore the power of occasion-based marketing with Semrush!

Nadia NazarovaOct 15, 2018

Technical SEO

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Keyword Cannibalization: How To Keep It From Harming Your On-Site SEO

This post will describe the phenomenon of keyword cannibalization, show you how to see if it is occurring using Semrush, and how to protect against it in the future to maintain high rankings in the SERPs.

Ryan GouldOct 10, 2018

Ecommerce

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What Is Amazon PPC?: A Complete Beginners Guide to Optimization

Amazon advertising is the best way to get ahead of your competitors by bringing traffic to your product page. Getting started doesn‘t have to be complicated. Your Amazon PPC journey starts with the launch plan outlined in this article.

Michael Erickson FacchinOct 09, 2018

How To Use Instagram Stories To Build Your Audience

Social Media

6 min read

How To Use Instagram Stories To Build Your Audience

If you haven’t used Instagram Stories in your marketing strategy yet, you’re missing out on a lot. Learn how to leverage them successfully to create greater brand awareness, engagement, and conversions. In this post, I’ll be discussing the best ways to engage more people on Instagram Stories.

Shane BarkerSep 20, 2018

6 Smart Bidding Tips That Will Take Your Google Ads To the Next Level (with less of your time!)

Paid Advertising

13 min read

6 Smart Bidding Tips That Will Take Your Google Ads To the Next Level (with less of your time!)

Over the past couple of years I have cut down the amount of time I spend in Google Ads by 75%, and yet the results I’m achieving have gotten better and better. How? A solid strategy combined with clever use of automation. In this article, I run through my 6 biggest pitfalls when running automated Google campaigns and how you can avoid them to take your own campaigns to the next level.

Matthew SiddleSep 14, 2018

General SEO

14 min read

How To Identify Search Intent in Organic Results: A Complete Guide

Understanding and matching the searcher‘s intent has become fundamental for SEOs. This article focuses on how to identify intent by dissecting queries into their component parts, to glean meaning and segment queries by intent stage. This is the first of three articles in this series.

Anna CorbettSep 13, 2018

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Keyword Research for SEO: What It Is & How to Do It

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Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights

Semrush Copilot helps you save time in common SEO analysis and planning. It does this by automatically analyzing several key Semrush tools and reports to offer actionable recommendations and present a prioritized list of SEO activities.

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Learn how to do a competitive analysis and compare your brand against your competitors.

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Banner Ad Sizes: Choosing the Right Size

Knowing your options is important so you can visualize how your ad will look, and how easily people will be able to see the ad.

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Ecommerce

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What Is Ecommerce? How It Works & Getting Started

Ecommerce is selling products and/or services online via websites and apps instead of in physical stores.

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What Is Marketing? [Simple Definition, Purpose, & Types]

Marketing is all the activities your brand uses to reach your target audience and turn them into buyers.

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How to Make an Ad, Step by Step

A great ad doesn’t bombard audiences’ in their newsfeed, it conveys a clear brand message, offers value, and earns users’ attention.

Grace BrennanSep 05, 2024

Social Media

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How to Find YouTube Influencers

Need help finding influencers on YouTube for a partnership campaign? Follow these steps.

Grace BrennanApr 18, 2024

Original Research & Studies

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10 Small Business Trends for 2025

Learn the top small business trends for 2025 to stay ahead of the competition and keep employees happy.

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Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

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Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

Learn what companies spend the most on advertising across 12 separate industries—and how you can gather competitive ad intel for your own niche.

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Average CPM for Display Ads: Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

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Average CPM for Display Ads: Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

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Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

Original Research & Studies

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Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

By partnering with AdClarity, we’ve investigated ad types, ad channels and ad spend so you can plan and strategize with the kind of competitive edge that other players don’t have in your industry.

Luke HarselOct 10, 2023

Original Research & Studies

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This post uncovers the top 100 most visited websites in the US, deep-diving into a few industries — Media, Retail, and Streaming Services — that show the biggest position changes.

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