Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dear Reader,
- Advance Praise for Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The Art and Science of PPC Advertising
- 2. How the PPC Machine Works
- 3. Core PPC Skills and Objectives
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4. Month 1—Research Keywords and Establish Campaign Structure
- 4.1. Week 1: Research Keywords
- 4.2. Week 2: Create Your Campaign Structure
- 4.3. Week 3: Adjust Campaign Settings
- 4.4. Week 4: Use Conversion Tracking and Set Click Pricing
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5. Month 2—Create Great PPC Ads
- 5.1. Week 5: Take Stock of Your Advantages
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5.2. Week 6: Write Right
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5.2.1. Monday: The Fundamentals
- 5.2.1.1. Group Keywords Tightly
- 5.2.1.2. Talk to the Reader
- 5.2.1.3. Tell the Readers What You Want Them to Do
- 5.2.1.4. Make It Clear What You're Selling
- 5.2.1.5. Use Title Case
- 5.2.1.6. Call Readers to Action
- 5.2.1.7. Use Appropriate Punctuation to Emphasize Action
- 5.2.1.8. Know that Benefits Sell Better than Features
- 5.2.1.9. If You've Got It, Flaunt It
- 5.2.1.10. Stand Out
- 5.2.2. Tuesday: The Headline—The Most Important Characters
- 5.2.3. Wednesday: Line 1—Features and Benefits
- 5.2.4. Thursday: Line 2—Urgent Calls to Action
- 5.2.5. Friday: The Display URL
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5.2.1. Monday: The Fundamentals
- 5.3. Week 7: Explore Industry Examples
- 5.4. Week 8: Understand Ads for the Content Network
- 5.5. Good-Better-Best
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6. Month 3—Design Effective Landing Pages
- 6.1. Week 9: Understand the Differences between Site Pages and Landing Pages
- 6.2. Week 10: Create the Mock-up
- 6.3. Week 11: Lay It All Out
- 6.4. Week 12: Design for Testing
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7. Month 4—Advertise on the Google Content Network
- 7.1. Week 13: Understand Google Contextual Advertising
- 7.2. Week 14: Build Keyword-Targeted Ad Groups
- 7.3. Week 15: Build Placement-Targeted Ad Groups
- 7.4. Week 16: Launch and Refine Your Content Campaign
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8. Month 5—Launch Your Campaign
- 8.1. Week 17: Bid Your Brands
- 8.2. Week 18: Make Prelaunch Double-Checks
- 8.3. Week 19: Flip the Switch
- 8.4. Week 20: Perform Early Course-Correction
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9. Month 6—Optimize Your Campaign
- 9.1. Week 21: Review Your Top-Level Reports
- 9.2. Week 22: Review Your Deep-Level Reports
- 9.3. Week 23: Create Additional Useful Reports
- 9.4. Week 24: Act on Your Data and Optimize Your Account
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10. Month 7—Test Ads by Using Advanced Techniques
- 10.1. Week 25: Implement Advanced Text Ad Design
- 10.2. Week 26: Insert Ad Text Symbols
- 10.3. Week 27: Use Google Content Nontext Ads
- 10.4. Week 28: Perform Advanced Ad Testing
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11. Month 8—Test and Optimize Landing Pages
- 11.1. Week 29: Plan Your Tests
- 11.2. Week 30: Use Google Website Optimizer
- 11.3. Week 31: Conduct A/B and Multivariate Tests
- 11.4. Week 32: Report and Interpret Results
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12. Month 9—Migrate Your Campaign to Microsoft and Yahoo!
- 12.1. Why Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter Matter
- 12.2. Different Look, Same Strategy
- 12.3. Week 33: Understand YSM Differences and Advantages
- 12.4. Week 34: Understand Microsoft adCenter Differences and Advantages
- 12.5. Week 35: Create Google AdWord Exports
- 12.6. Week 36: Upload and Fine-Tune
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A. Advanced AdWords Editor
- A.1. What Is AdWords Editor?
- A.2. Getting Started
- A.3. Saving Time with AdWords Editor
- A.4. Spreadsheets Are Still Important
- A.5. Working with General Tools
- B. Facebook PPC
Product information
- Title: Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2010
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9780470488676
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