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.

 

As an added bonus with purchase of “The Truth About Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising” you will receive a $200 free search advertising credit from Microsoft Advertising. This offer is for new account holders only.  For details on the offer see kevinlee.net/book or the inside front cover of the book.

 

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Google has created numerous marketing and advertising products that are fast and easy to implement in your business today including Adsense, Adwords, and the Google APIs. This new book takes the confusion and mystery out of working with Google and its various advertising and marketing programs. Are you one of the many who think Google is simply a search engine? Yes, it is true that Google is the most popular search engine on the Web today. More than 275 million times a day, people use Google and its related partner sites to find information on just about any subject. Many of those people are looking for your products and services. Consider this even if you don't have a Web site or product. There are tremendous opportunities on the Internet and money to be made using Google. Through this book you will learn the secrets of working with Google without making costly mistakes. This book is an absolute must-have for anyone who wants to succeed with advertising on Google. This book teaches you the ins and outs using all of Google's advertising and marketing tools. You will instantly start producing results and profits. In addition to the extensive research placed in the book, we spent thousands of hours interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today s most successful Google advertising experts. This book contains their secrets and proven successful ideas, including actual case studies. ....read more

Techniques to triple search advertising traffic and boost profits

Expert internet marketer Richard Stokes gives you a peek inside the playbooks of the world's top search marketers and shows you how to up your Google game and get the visibility and the results you're after. Learn critical steps for properly planning and launching a pay-per-click advertising campaign as well as priceless techniques to help you drive significantly more traffic, dramatically increase click-through rates, steal impressions from competitors, boost your conversions, and more!

Covering Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search, this powerful guide discloses:

• How to properly plan and launch PPC advertising campaigns
• How to find rare super-converter keywords which can drive 80% or more of online revenues
• The real factors which drive high click-through rates
• The best ads on the internet and how to write them
• How to find competitors' budgets, ad copy, and best keywords
• Simple website changes that can increase sales by 500% or more
• Managing bids without expensive bid management software

Millions compete for exposure on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search, but 97% of them fail to get results. Search advertising specialist Richard Stokes reveals why and provides solutions. ....read more