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Google AdWords™ For Dummies®, 3rd Edition
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Google AdWords™ For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

by Howie Jacobson, Kristie McDonald, Joel McDonald
December 2011
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
11h 44m
English
For Dummies
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Improving Online Marketing

By now, we hope you get the general principle:

  1. Start with AdWords.
  2. Validate your keywords, ads, and landing pages.
  3. For your most popular keywords, split-test multiple ads and vary the ad text widely.
  4. Take the winning ad copy and put it to use everywhere.

To get your creative juices flowing, here's a list of media that can accommodate your winning ad copy:

  • E-mail headlines (to improve open rate)
  • E-mail content
  • Blog post headlines
  • Blog post content
  • Sales letter headlines
  • Sales letter testimonials
  • Sales letter calls to action
  • Captions under prominent images on your site
  • Banner ads on other networks
  • Organic Twitter posts
  • Invitations to join Facebook events and Fan pages
  • Descriptions of Meetup groups
  • Descriptions of your foursquare venue (and other location-based marketing media like Gowalla and Yelp)
  • Web page title tags
  • Web page description tags
  • Online press release headlines
  • Online press release calls to action
  • Coupons (on Google Places, Groupon, and other venues)
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