Pay Per Click Search Engines

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.

Learn the Success Secrets of Search Advertising

Millions compete for exposure on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search, but 97% of them fail to get results. Become one of the elite 3% who succeed. How? Search advertising specialist Richard Stokes reveals that and more!

Covering all major search engines, this powerful guide discloses:

• The “$100 Bidding Myth”: why outbidding competitors rarely results in more traffic
• Simple website changes that can increase sales by 500%
• How to drive 80% or more of online revenues with rare superconverter keywords
• Winning strategies of the world’s top search marketers
• The best ads on the internet and how to write them
• The real factors for driving high click-through rates
• How to find competitors’ budgets, ad copy, and best keywords
• How to manage bids without expensive bid-management software
• And more!

“Having Rich Stokes work on your Search Marketing is like getting Michael Jordan to play on your pick-up B-ball team. It doesn’t matter who you play – you’re going to win.”
Rick Carlson, CEO, Surf Secret

"Richard Stokes knows things about Google that hardly anybody else in the world knows. Far more than most Google employees. Why? Because he operates a market research company that constantly analyzes the search results of millions of keywords. I consult with hundreds of business owners who manage large Google accounts, but every time we get together, I learn something new from him.”
Perry Marshall, author and world's most-quoted consultant on Google advertising

“Rich’s unique perspective and deep analytical skill make The Ultimate Guide to Pay-Per-Click Advertising one of the must-read books of the year for every search marketer.”
David Szetela, CEO, Clix Marketing

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

Double Your Web Traffic—Overnight!

Google gets searched more than 250 million times every day—creating an unbelievable opportunity to get your business in front of thousands every minute…IF you know what you’re doing.

Google AdWords experts Perry Marshall and Bryan Todd uncover the fundamentals, techniques, tools, and tricks that Google should teach you, but doesn’t. Learn how to build an aggressive campaign from scratch, increase your search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double your website traffic, and increase your sales! No other guide is as comprehensive or current in its coverage of today’s fastest, most powerful advertising medium.

Learn how to:

• Build a powerful, streamlined campaign from scratch
• Develop high quality keyword lists
• Write killer advertising and website copy that gets clicks
• Get your ads in front of the best audience possible
• Keep your ads showing up with high quality scores
• Triple your traffic with site-targeted AdSense and Google image ads
• Earn high rankings in Google’s organic search results
• Slash your bid prices
• Gain more conversions and sales
• Avoid costly mistakes made by all Google advertisers
• Determine what’s working with Google’s conversion tracking
• And more!

Plus get FREE e-mail updates on Google’s ever-changing system!

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.

This is the ultimate guide for those who want to move beyond AdWords basics to learn and apply the advanced techniques and tactics that Google's expert consultant teaches to Fortune 500 companies in his seminars. Advanced Google AdWords will provide deep insight into AdWords' functionality and advanced features, explaining how they work and providing tips, tactics, and hands-on tutorials that readers can immediately use on their own PPC campaigns.

Improve Your Profits and Strategies

While this book gives advanced insight into every aspect of using AdWords to create and manage successful marketing campaigns, this books two mantra words are profits and strategies.

Advanced Google AdWords will help you create strategies to improve many aspects of your marketing including:

• Choosing and organizing keywords based upon user intent so your ads and landing pages are always relevant to the searcher.
• Controlling under which conditions your ad shows so you can save money and increases your conversion rate.
• Write ads that increase not just click-through-rates and profits
• Understanding quality score so that you can monitor and increase your quality score
• Learn how to set bids based upon ROI, time of day, profits, geography, and more
• Strategies for organizing your account based upon your goals
• Conversion tracking strategies to learn what parts of your account lead to sales
• Master testing ad copy and landing pages
• Follow step-by-step instructions to create action plans so you can easily monitor and manage your campaigns.
• Learn how to tame the content network so you can profitable expand your advertising goals.

Advanced Google AdWords is the ultimate step-by-step guide for developing advanced AdWords expertise. It is detailed, in-depth, and full of insights, techniques, tips, tactics and fascinating real-world case studies. The book will have very high visibility in the PPC community as it will feature a foreword from a Google AdWords insider, an AdWords coupon, and praise quotes from PPC industry notables.

Inside you will receive your free bonuses:

• A $25 coupon for Google AdWords
• Up to $50 off any officially supported Google AdWords Seminar for Success hosted by Brad Geddes
• Up to $100 off CertifiedKnowledge.com's online training and tools program

Google AdWords is a unique tool that allows you to set your own budget and create ads and choose keywords that are specifically related to your business. This handy guide walks you through the newest tips, tricks, and techniques for maximizing your AdWords campaign. Presenting coverage that is nearly entirely rewritten or revised, this practical guide adds chapters on topics such as ad extensions, feeds for e-commerce, mobile advertising, advanced ad writing, and the new Google display network. In addition, the author provides updates that reflect helpful new best practices.

• Boasts approximately 85 percent updated or new content
• Updates popular topics such as experiments, ad extensions, feeds for e-commerce, mobile advertising, advanced ad writing, and more
• Incorporates changes to the AdWords interfaces
• Shares best practices in split testing, opt-in landing page structure, and ad group structure
• Reviews new, free tools included in AdWords as well as new and improved third-party tools

With this handy reference by your side, you'll discover the best way to make a Google AdWords campaign to work for you!