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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

You're reading from   Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook Cracking pay-per-click on Google can increase your visitor numbers and profits. Here are over 120 practical recipes to help you set up, optimize and manage your Adwords campaign with step-by-step instructions.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849685849
Length 372 pages
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Kristina Cutura Kristina Cutura
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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Researching the Market and Competition and Setting Goals FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Your Account 3. Tracking beyond the Click 4. Structuring Your Account 5. Creating Relevant Keywords 6. Writing Compelling Ads 7. Budgets and Bidding 8. Running Display Ads 9. Remarketing to Past Visitors 10. Reporting and Analysis 11. Optimizing Performance 12. Advanced Strategies and Features 13. Managing AdWords Index

Improving ad rank


Your ad position is going to heavily impact visibility and traffic, with the top-ranked ads receiving the most clicks. Obviously, the more competitive your keywords are, the more costly it will be to have your ads show in the #1 spot. However, there are specific short- and long-term strategies that will help you obtain the best possible ad rank.

Getting ready

First, isolate the keywords that are not ranked optimally:

  • Identify keywords that are not showing on the first page of Google's search results

  • If you have a specific ad position in mind, use filters in your Keywords tab to see which keywords are not meeting this criteria

Quickly diagnose your keywords to figure out if they are showing or are restricted by Quality Scores and bids. On your Keywords tab, click on Keyword details and select Diagnose keywords.

How to do it...

To improve your ad rank, you can:

  1. Increase your bid

  2. Improve your Quality Score

Increasing your bids is the easy fix short-term solution. However, continuing...

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