Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this step-by-step guide shows you how to implement a successful Web analytics strategy. Web analytics expert Avinash Kaushik, in his thought-provoking style, debunks leading myths and leads you on a path to gaining actionable insights from your analytics efforts. Discover how to move beyond clickstream analysis, why qualitative data should be your focus, and more insights and techniques that will help you develop a customer-centric mindset without sacrificing your company’s bottom line.

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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. ....read more

Back and bracing as ever, Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, Second Edition offers brisk advice, bite-sized tasks, and smart tools to help you increase visibility for your website on the major search engines. In this new edition of their bestselling how-to guide, SEO consultants Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin offer surprisingly easy do-it-yourself techniques as well as the very latest SEO strategies for small, very small, and large businesses, as well as for bloggers and web designers. ....read more