Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

Over 120 practical recipes to set up, optimize, and manage profitable AdWords campaigns

Overview

• Set up your Adwords account and track results beyond the click
• Create relevant keywords and write compelling ads
• Learn about reporting, analysis, managing Adwords, and troubleshooting performance
• Optimize performance for maximum ROI and implement strategies for Remarketing to past visitors
• Step-by-step format with bite-sized, easy-to-digest, and implementable suggestions

In Detail

Google Adwords is one of the most effective ways to advertise today with unprecedented reach and potential to show your ads to millions of Internet users instantly. It helps in bringing highly relevant ads to customers who are searching for you in real-time, resulting in highly accountable and cost-effective campaigns that even the smallest advertisers can take advantage of.

Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook is a step-by-step guide with practical tips and everyday examples that will arm you with the tools necessary to run effective Adwords campaigns.

“Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook” is a collection of hands-on recipes for creating and optimizing Adwords campaigns The book begins with the research you’ll need to conduct before starting with Adwords, including figuring out how competitive your market is and finding out what your competitors are doing. It takes you through the account set-up process from the beginning to the end, including how to fine-tune your campaigns based on the rich reporting available.

You will also learn how to bid effectively so that you are not overspending and instead focus your budget on what is working for you. You will also see how to track ad results and act on the data to maximize ROI. This book highlights the most successful keyword building and ad copy writing techniques with real-life examples that will make your ads stand out. Advanced ad formats and campaign types are introduced with recommendations based on a decade of experience.

The book concludes with advanced strategies and features that the most successful advertisers are taking advantage of and account management tools to help you save time.

What you will learn from this book

• Tracking and reporting tips that will maximize your returns
• Take your Adwords account to the next level using the overlooked advanced features
• Research your market and competition to analyse budgets, calls-to-action and offers
• Measure the success of your ad campaigns
• Write compelling ads, choosing relevant keywords, and choose where to focus your money
• Learn using examples advantageous key ad strategies and little known industry tools
• Implement advanced strategies and tools to help you save time
• Recommendations include actual account snapshots and detailed instructions on how to implement each strategy
• Guidelines for budgets and effective bids and Strategies for running display ads

Approach

This book contains practical recipes on everything from creating an Adwords account, reporting, analyzing, bidding effectively to remarketing. The book is a guide to getting hands-on experience in Adwords strategies. It is extensively focussed on helping you build an Adwords account, which appeals to the visitors and attracts more clicks!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Researching the Market and Competition and Setting Goals
Chapter 2: Setting up Your Account
Chapter 3: Tracking beyond the Click
Chapter 4: Structuring Your Account
Chapter 5: Creating Relevant Keywords
Chapter 6: Writing Compelling Ads
Chapter 7: Budgets and Bidding
Chapter 8: Running Display Ads
Chapter 9: Remarketing to Past Visitors
Chapter 10: Reporting and Analysis
Chapter 11: Optimizing Performance
Chapter 12: Advanced Strategies and Features
Chapter 13: Managing AdWords