Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day

06/17/2011 · No Responses

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.

From the Back Cover
Craft, Implement, and Measure Winning PPC Campaigns
Praise for Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day

“Szetela and Kerschbaum have crafted a comprehensive how-to manual that should be on every marketer’s bookshelf. Read it to understand the phenomenon that’s moving from the search results pages to hot social media properties like Facebook and LinkedIn.”
—John Sculley, Venture Partner, Rho Ventures; former CEO, Apple Computer and Pepsi; and author of??Odyssey

“David Szetela has earned an enviable reputation as a no-nonsense teacher and practitioner of pay-per-click advertising. This book reduces this complex topic into simple, daily practices that bring more customers with superior return on your investment. This book includes advanced techniques and concepts that 90% of your competition has never seen.”
—Perry Marshall, author of??The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords

“David Szetela is like a mad genius of paid search, uncovering an enormous breadth of specific techniques you should be applying to your direct response marketing efforts. Unlike most mad geniuses, there is a remarkable clarity to David’s writing.”
—Andrew Goodman, President of Page Zero Media and author of Winning Results with Google AdWords, 2nd Edition

“David Szetela does a wonderful job in covering all aspects of creating an effective and efficient pay-per-click program. His book is likely to become a classic in the field.”
—Al Ries, coauthor of War in the Boardroom??and??Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

A Step-by-Step Guide

This detailed resource helps you develop, implement, measure, and manage successful pay-per-click ad campaigns by following a smart, proven, hour-a-day plan for success. The expert authors help you learn PPC basics and employ savvy strategies for everything from positive and negative keywords to click pricing, ad testing, conversion tracking, and more.

Understand the basics of the PPC machine—the auction model, ranking algorithms, and what happens after viewers click
Make sure you’re competition-ready with great ad copy and optimized landing pages
Master the tactics of bidding for position and for keywords, then launch your campaign and monitor results
Explore the art and science of pay-per-click advertising and see why content and search advertising complement each other
Set dates and budgets, research your competitors’ keywords, define your own, and set up Google Analytics
See how to leverage Google’s content network to make your strategy a success
Go mobile with targeted search and content for mobile devices
Understand the differences in the Big Three search engines—Google, Yahoo!®, and Microsoft Bing—and how they affect your campaign
Gather, interpret, report, and act upon the data you collect from your campaign
Download useful templates and tools from the book’s official site

You’ll also find:

Advanced tips and techniques for the AdWords Editor
Real-world “From the Trenches” case studies that illustrate successes to learn from and mistakes to avoid
A step-by-step introduction to Facebook PPC ad creation, targeting, and reporting