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Optimizing AdWordsprovides the information marketers and future marketers need to harness the power of the Google's AdWords search engine marketing applications. It provides a big picture overview of the AdWords system, helping businesses and individuals decide how to advertise products or their clients' products. Optimizing AdWordswas written for those at every rung of the ladder, from Marketing Directors to small business owners to students just starting out in marketing. This volume is organized around accessibility and ease of use. Author Paige Miller, co-founder of MultiPlanet Marketing Inc., has written this how-to guide to be super easy and fast to read and absorb. It moves you straight to the salient points of the text, allowing readers to take on AdWords in overview before coming back and collecting the finer details. Chapters 1 through 4 cover the basics, while the rest serve as a reference readers can come back to in building and growing campaigns. Using this book, professional marketers and other business professionals can utilize Google AdWords and optimize it for existing marketing strategies, or create whole new campaigns based around the system. Today, given the level of competition for ad positions on Google search pages, success hinges on understanding Google AdWords well enough to outperform competition. This book will provide readers with the knowledge necessary to master Google AdWords.

Learning Google AdWords and Google Analytics is going to launch and advance thousands of successful careers in digital advertising and digital analytics around the world. Learn from an expert who designs and presents hundreds of courses, including courses for Google. Internationally recognised educator, digital course designer, consultant and conference speaker, Benjamin Mangold, shares his passion, experience and knowledge of real life campaigns and customers. Learn from an expert who cares and knows how to share.

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.

Breakthrough “semantic search” techniques are already transforming Google™’s search results. If you want to be found, yesterday’s SEO techniques won’t cut it anymore. Google Semantic Search tells you what to do instead—in plain English.

David Amerland demystifies Knowledge Graph™, TrustRank™, AuthorityRank™, personalized and mobile search, social media activity, and much more. Drawing on deep knowledge of Google’s internal workings and newest patents, he also reveals the growing impact of social networks on your SEO performance. Whether you do it yourself or supervise an agency, this is your complete playbook for next-generation SEO!

Keyword research can make or break a marketing campaign, an optimization strategy, and pay-per-click ad campaigns. Written by a keyword research expert, this essential resource drills home the importance of targeting the right keywords or phrases in order to get traffic from search engines and social media channels. Author Ron Jones imparts his wisdom and experience for determining which keywords will work based on a searcher's intent and he shows you how to research social, mobile, and video marketing tools that can ultimately become the foundation of a marketing campaign.

Solve your traffic troubles and turn browsers into buyers When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range of sites, they identified simple yet powerful solutions involving design, copy, appropriate analysis, classic optimization techniques, and targeted testing. You'll find the fixes easy to implement, and they're all right here. Understand the essentials - your market, your proposition, and your delivery. Create a site that is seen by the right people, provides a compelling experience, and generates the desired action. Learn how to use testing to improve your site's conversion rate. Discover the holistic nature of web site optimization and why multiplicity matters. Examine dozens of simple techniques for building traffic, engaging your audience, and crafting effective calls to action. Combine creativity with analysis for the best possible results. Ben Hunt is Principal Consultant for Scratch media Ltd. He operates webdesignfromscratch.com, which provides tutorials and advice to over 120,000 web developers each month. Ben has been designing, coding, and producing web sites for clients worldwide for more than 15 years, and is considered a leader in the web usability industry. Forewords by Ken McCarthy , founder of the System Seminar, and Drayton Bird , Drayton Bird Associates

Adeptly address today’s business challenges with this powerful new book from web analytics thought leader Avinash Kaushik. Web Analytics 2.0 presents a new framework that will permanently change how you think about analytics. It provides specific recommendations for creating an actionable strategy, applying analytical techniques correctly, solving challenges such as measuring social media and multichannel campaigns, achieving optimal success by leveraging experimentation, and employing tactics for truly listening to your customers. The book will help your organization become more data driven while you become a super analysis ninja!

This book addresses the underlying foundational elements, both theoretical and methodological, of sponsored search. Rather than focusing on the how, this book examines what causes the how. The book addresses keywords, ads, consumers, pricing, competitors, analytics, branding, marketing, and advertising, integrating these separate components into an incorporated whole. The focus is on the critical elements, with ample illustrations, and with enough detail to lead the interested reader to further inquiry.

Between these covers you’ll find practical advice and examples for people who build websites aiming to reach their target audience. Each chapter will introduce you to best practices and fresh perspectives on how to accomplish these simple, yet indispensable goals: Help more people find your site; Help users find content within your site; Encourage return visits

The path this book travels through the villages of Web standards, accessibility, and contemporary technologies like Ajax, APIs, Flash, and microformats. You’ll find the big ideas behind these technologies and real world examples, illustrating that you don’t have to compromise the user experience to create search engine friendly, findable websites.

Although this book illuminates a broad range of findability strategies, one common theme pervades:
Web standards + compelling content = improved findability = more successful sites