The Truth About Pay Per Click Search Advertising

Everything you must know to optimize your search ads, increase your profits, and help customers find exactly what they’re searching for • The truth about the search tax • The truth about competitive and network click fraud • The truth about testing and expansion The Truth About Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising is a valuable resource for Internet marketers at both the tactical and strategic level regardless of company size. While PPC search engine advertising in Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other engines looks easy, competing successfully against competitors in a real-time auction for consumer's attention, clicks and dollars is no simple task. There are two kinds of PPC search marketers at the top of the paid placement results: brilliant marketers and irrational clueless amateurs. This book is designed to make sure that the reader becomes one of the brilliant marketers and learns how outmaneuver the competition. This book arms the reader with proven tactics and strategies that ensure success. This book provides concrete, easy-to-grasp concepts, strategies, and tactics designed for both the hands-on search marketer as well as the supervisor focused on strategy. However, a basic understanding of some key search marketing and Internet marketing fundamentals will be helpful, though not essential, to the reader. To empower readers of all levels, the book contains a basic glossary of often-used terms (CPC, CPM, MaxBid, SERP) to ensure accessibility to all readers. Conversely, even the most seasoned paid search marketing professional will learn a great deal from this book. To win in today's SEM PPC auctions and to continue to thrive, marketers need to figure out how to allocate budgets effectively and efficiently. The future of their business may depend on a good understanding of paid search and auction-based keyword-targeted media.

The complete guide to a winning pay-per-click marketing campaign Pay-per-click advertising-the "sponsored results" on search engine results pages-is increasingly being used to drive traffic to websites. Marketing and advertising professionals looking for a hands-on, task-based guide to every stage of creating and managing a winning PPC campaign will get the step-by-step instruction they need in this detailed guide. Using the popular An Hour A Day format, this book helps you avoid the pitfalls and plan, develop, implement, manage, and monitor a PPC campaign that gets results. Successful pay-per-click campaigns are a key component of online marketing This guide breaks the project down into manageable tasks, valuable for the small-business owner as well as for marketing officers and consultants Explains core PPC concepts, industry trends, and the mechanics that make a campaign work Shows how to perform keyword research, structure campaigns, and understand campaign settings and various pricing models Discusses how to write ads, develop and test landing pages, use ad groups, and leverage Google's content network Covers launching a campaign, bidding for position, monitoring, gathering results, and interpreting and acting on the data collected Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day provides the tools to make the most of this important marketing method.

Plan and launch your PPC campaign and keep track of its progress If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Pay Per Click just might do the trick. This book will help you decide! It tells you all about Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search, targeting your customers, watching out for fraud, assessing the pros and cons of Pay Per Click, and making Pay Per Click work for you. Discover how to Use the right keywords to trigger your ads Figure your breakeven point Write ads that reach your customers Calculate return on investment Use geo targeting Track your ad results

Millions compete for exposure on Google and Bing but 99% of them fail to get results. As the founder of leading digital intelligence firm AdGooroo, search advertising authority Richard Stokes is in a unique position to reveal what’s going wrong and provide solutions to fix it. Using proven strategies from today’s search advertising elite, discover how to drive significantly more traffic to your site, dramatically increase click-through rates, steal impressions from competitors, boost your conversions, and increase your sales by unbelievable amounts. Since the previous edition, there have been a number of revolutionary changes in paid search. First, we are increasingly searching from our cell phones rather than desktop computers. Second, Google is no longer the only game in town. Bing now accounts for 30 percent of all U.S. searches. Finally, "search extensions" have become a powerful new technique you can use to collect phone numbers and email addresses with your ads, limit your ads to certain times of day, deliver coupons to nearby customers, and even provide handy "call me" buttons that are displayed only on cell phones. In this new edition, Stokes details all this and more.

Mastering Search Advertising shares insight and professional guidance from an expert Internet marketer on how to launch, manage and improve already-existing pay-per-click campaigns, providing an inside look into a largely undiscovered and exciting industry. Richard Stokes, founder of AdGooroo, a leading search engine intelligence company, has over 15 years of experience in advertising and technology management and includes real-life examples, case studies and charts that reveal not only the basics of creating a pay-per-click campaign, but also break down the intricacies of the process into simple, easy-to-understand steps that will help any business leader focused on achieving a world-class marketing strategy. Successful tactics known only to a handful of elite search marketers are discussed in detail and include specific techniques on how to: Increase search traffic while simultaneously lowering costs Conduct keyword research Determine the best starting bid prices for new keywords Manage bids without expensive bid management software Launch a new campaign Understand the Google quality score algorithm Stop throwing your marketing dollars away and learn how to dominate Google AdWords today! "A well researched, truthful, and up-to-date guide for pay-per-click marketers." Mike Mindel, CTO, Wordtracker.com

Master the art and science behind Pay Per Click Advertising in a matter of hours. By investing a few dollars, one can easily increase the number of visitors to a Web site and significantly increase sales. Based on interviews with hundreds of PPC masters, this book is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas.

You've got products. You've got a website. You're ready to do business online. Now, how do you attract new customers? You'll find the answers in this book. In it, search engine advertising pioneers, Boris and Eugene Mordkovich, share their knowledge from the most basic information explaining how Pay-Per-Click works to why it is so extraordinarily effective, as well as offer detailed information on how to design a successful campaign, how to test concepts, determine what works, and fine-tune your campaigns to maximize the Return on Investment (ROI). It also delves into more advanced topics affecting advertisers today, including contextual advertising (getting your website listed on thousands of websites without paying a penny), localized search (targeting a specific local area through search engines), and click fraud (how to protect yourself against it). The book also offers tips, techniques, and ideas contributed by 14 top experts in the industry.

This book is designed to provide simple, practical and effective answers to the main questions concerning the creation of a well-drafted PPC (pay per click) plan and its operating mechanisms. The objective: to allow the reader a good understanding of the subject, using a text that is sufficiently short so that he or she can finish reading by taking advantage of the many moments of waiting and stalling during the day. Among the topics covered within it, you can find out - what pay-per-click is and how it is created; - how to properly organise your PPC activity; - what are the key points to leverage to get good results with this advertising strategy; - how to create a landing page that makes the most of the visits it receives; - how best to manage active campaigns; - how to turn keywords into customers; - Finally, what mistakes should be avoided when using paid digital advertising. In this guide you will find all the information you need to understand how pay per click works on search engines and social networks, what work is normally done by a paid online advertising expert and how long it takes to get the desired results. All of this is covered in a 7-word programme designed to enable the reader to quickly acquire a good level of competence on the subject, and thus be able to hold effective conversations with suppliers, colleagues and superiors.