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Search Engine Marketing: SEO & Paid Search
Search engine marketing captures buyers at the moment of search: earning organic rankings (SEO) and buying high-intent clicks (paid search) for the queries your buyers type. It is the highest-intent demand capture there is, and increasingly includes optimizing for AI answer engines.
Where it sits in the funnel
Search engine marketing mainly works 2 stages of the funnel. Each links to its hub: the plays, the metrics, and the channels.
What makes it distinct
Search mostly harvests intent rather than creating it, which makes it demand capture, not demand creation. SEO is owned and compounding but slow; paid search is rented and instant but stops the moment you stop paying. The strongest programs run both against the same intent map.
Search engine marketing plays you can ship
- Map keywords to intent, then to the stage each query belongs in.
- Pair technical SEO with content that actually deserves to rank.
- Build programmatic pages at scale where the data supports unique value.
- Run branded and competitor paid search to defend and contest the SERP.
- Optimize for AI Overviews and answer engines, not just blue links.
How marketinque runs search engine marketing
marketinque does not run search engine marketing as a silo; it runs the stages it belongs to as part of one funnel. The agent drafts the work on autopilot, and every publish, send, and dollar of spend waits in your approval queue, logged to a tamper-evident chain.
Key terms: ROAS, Attribution.
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