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EyeforTravel Feature: The importance of monitoring for hotel price parity

August 16, 2016 | Agencies, Marketing Teams, Travel

The Search Monitor was recently featured on the Eye for Travel website. Our CEO, Lori Weiman, was interviewed about the importance of  hotel advertisers monitoring for price parity. The topic was OTAs vs. Hotels, a story that continues to keep hotel marketers awake at night. What You’ll Learn From the Article: Learn what is keeping three US-based hoteliers awake at night […]

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Seasonality and CTRs: What’s the connection?

September 30, 2015 | Agencies, Automotive, Finance & Insurance, Marketing Teams, Retail, Telecom, Travel

How does seasonality impact clickthrough rates (CTRs)? The chart below shows CTR benchmarks for five key PPC verticals—Retail, Finance, Travel, Auto, and Telecom—during the past four quarters, and for two important benchmark groups: The Search Monitor’s top-tier advertisers (the group of 10 advertisers who received the most clicks during the quarter) The Search Monitor’s middle-tier […]

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How do your CPCs compare to the industry benchmarks?

September 21, 2015 | Agencies, Automotive, Finance & Insurance, Marketing Teams, Retail, Telecom, Travel

Cost Per Click is another key performance indicator that every search marketer should monitor on a regular basis. The chart below shows CPC benchmarks for five key PPC verticals: Retail, Finance, Travel, Auto, and Telecom. Further, we included benchmarks for both top-tier and middle-tier advertisers. Why the need for two tiers of benchmarks? For starters, you […]

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The Search Monitor reveals how industry affects ad rank

September 17, 2015 | Agencies, Automotive, Finance & Insurance, Marketing Teams, Retail, Telecom, Travel

The chart below comes from Q2 2015 PPC Benchmark Guide for Search Marketers and provides ad rank data for five important PPC verticals. For each vertical, we show the ad rank for US Google and Bing searches (desktop and mobile) for both our top-tier and middle-tier advertisers. The Search Monitor’s clients use this benchmark data by tier […]

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