PPC books

The Internet is a vast collection of content and it's getting harder to get your website found. With shrinking budgets and a tough economy, the pressure is on marketers to make websites perform and find new business. The good news is Search Engine Optimization allows you to race ahead of your competitors, connect with new customers and create lasting relationships that will boost your brand and feed your bottom line. Take control and learn the new essential SEO techniques that will get marketers positioned to excel in 2012.

Get the most out of Google's trifecta of tools and optimize your Web presence!

Savvy marketers are always searching for new ways to attract and keep online customers. Google’s array of online tools plus the techniques and tips in this expert guide help you unlock the mystery of doing business in the digital age.

Learn the basics of Google AdWords, Analytics, and Website Optimizer—and then discover how to use this powerful trifecta together to help you track, extract, and analyze data and make necessary changes. Topics include cost-per-click advertising, conversion tracking, how to apply what you’re learning, and much more.

• Brings you up to speed on Google AdWords, Analytics, and Website Optimizer
• Shows how to use each tool individually—and then together as a powerful trio to track, analyze, and optimize your Web presence
• Topics include the basics of CPC (cost per click) and how to use Google's Ad Planner, the AdWords Editor, and conversion tracking
• Covers how to install tracking code in your Web site, what reports are available and how to use them, testing, applying what you learn, and much more

Start increasing ROI, online sales, and web site traffic quality with Google tools and the insights and techniques in this expert guide.

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.

Quality score has been confusing and confounding paid search managers for years. The basic facts are simple, but the details have been elusive. Quality Score in High Resolution is the advanced guide to AdWords quality score. Written by respected paid search expert Craig Danuloff, and supported by technical interviews with Google's Ads Quality Team, this is the first and only resource that demystifies quality score and empowers you to deliver more impressions, higher click-through rates, and larger profits.

This book dives deep, delivering details, explanations, and insights into the calculation, application, and management of quality score. You'll learn:

• All the forms of click-through rate Google tracks to calculate quality score.
• The secret of relevance.
• Why you can't trust the "quality score" number reported in AdWords.
• How landing pages really impact quality score.
• The goals you should set for quality score in your account
• A simple path to good or great quality scores

The success of every keyword in your account is all decided by this powerful little metric. This book is your key to deeply understanding quality score and truly optimizing your paid search results.

Advanced Reviews

"AdWords can be difficult at times; and no part of AdWords is more frustrating than Quality Score. For advertisers to optimize for quality score - they need to understand Google's motivations and calculations. Then, you need to learn from the advertiser's viewpoint how to increase your quality scores while still maintaining profitability. Craig has put together the definitive book that combines these two areas and will help you to understand and improve your quality scores. This is a must read book for anyone concerned about their AdWords performance."

-Brad Geddes, Certified Knowledge

"Quality score plays a major impact on AdWords account performance, yet the full picture on quality score has always been clouded in a degree of mystery. Craig has lifted the veil off AdWords quality score and provided a comprehensive guide to help us understand the why, how, when, and if, questions we ask ourselves daily. This book covers it all, and after reading it I feel an increased level of confidence in successfully managing my client's accounts."

- Kim Clinkunbroomer, ClinksWebService ("Mrs. C" in AdWords Help Forums)

"If you invest from $5,000 a month to over a $1,000,000 a month, this is the book you MUST invest some time reading. Google uses quality score to balance the needs of the advertiser, the searcher, and themselves. Don't you believe you should have some edge into how that equation is made? In Quality Score in High Resolution, Craig Danuloff invested hundreds of hours to decipher and share with you the most important metric Google uses in determining your PPC success."

- Bryan Eisenberg, New York Times bestselling author

Google AdWords, when it launched in 2002 signaled a fundamental shift in what the Internet was for so many people and businesses. What was once before a concept that could, technically be profitable, had seemingly overnight become a massive cash opportunity for millions, providing the worlds largest search databases in Google with more than 75 percent of Internet searches through their technology according to Pew Computer Research. Thats millions upon millions of visitors every day searching for keywords that may describe your business. For that reason alone, learning and understanding how Google AdWords operates and how it can be optimized for maximum exposure, boosting click through rates, conversions, placement, and selection of the right keywords, can be the key to a successful online business. This book was written for every business owner who has taken to the Internet in an attempt to market and promote their business through search and content advertising. The keys to success lie in understanding how these services truly work. In this book you will learn about the old methods of direct marketing and why, despite their lack of detail and time consumption, they worked so well. You will then learn how Google AdWords has revolutionized the industry, changing the very definition of direct marketing. You will learn the top advertising strategies used by firms and businesses around the world and how you can write an ad that captures the most possible attention. You will learn how to research keywords, choose a niche in which to market, and then sign up for AdWords and start posting ads. Learn what click through rates, conversion rates, ROI, and CPC are and why they are so vital to the performance of your ad campaign. The worlds top AdWords gurus were consulted for this guide, providing their insight into the best ways to write and present information to your target demographic in a short ad. You will learn how to use every tool provided by Google and a few more not provided by them to research and create your ads and then why things like split testing and demographic research are the fundamental things every business owner must do to succeed. You will finally learn what it takes to become certified in Google AdWords and to start using your knowledge of this revolutionary advertising system to start working as a top paid consultant. Anyone with a business or a great idea who has ever wanted to reach their customers directly and easily needs to read this book and start learning today how Google AdWords can change your advertising methods forever.

Ten minibooks cover all you need to know about search engine optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential tool for getting a handle on web site promotional tactics and tools. With this complete reference, you'll explore issues not covered anywhere else, including international SEO, how to optimize servers for SEO, and much more. Ten separate books join forces to provide you with a comprehensive, straightforward guide to the benefits, details, and tricks of SEO.

Coverage devotes time to topics such as keyword strategy, competitive positioning, SEO web design, search marketing, and more. You'll also look at how search engines work and how to create content, link, optimize the foundations, and analyze results.

• Details the capabilities and benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) for gauging the success of online promotional tactics and tools
• Explains how search engines work, nuances of keyword strategy, how to deal with competitive positioning, and more
• Walks you through working with SEO web design, creating content, linking, optimizing the foundations, and analyzing results
• Touches on topics not covered anywhere else, including international SEO and optimizing servers for SEO

Search no further! This book is one-stop shopping for everything you need in order to start your engine and embrace the potential of SEO today.

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.
Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.
Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

Develop, implement, and measure a successful Facebook marketing campaign

The social networking site Facebook boasts more than 300 million users worldwide. Its ability to target users who have provided real data about themselves and their interests makes Facebook the ideal platform for marketers, and marketers everywhere recognize the importance of Facebook and are eager to successfully tap Facebook's potential. This book shows you how.

Quickly get up to speed on today's Facebook conventions and demographics, and then gain an understanding of the various strategic and implementation issues you must consider from start to finish.

• Guides you through crafting a successful presence on Facebook and takes you through each step for developing an overall marketing strategy
• Explains each step for setting realistic goals, defining metrics, developing reports, and acquiring corporate buy-in
• Shows how to execute your strategy while incorporating all of Facebook's relevant features
• Addresses Facebook's pay-per-click platform, Facebook Connect, and more

Packed with tips and tactics not documented anywhere else, the book serves as the ultimate step-by-step guide to developing a winning Facebook marketing campaign.

“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. But as journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion, the Internet is a tool that both revolutionaries and authoritarian governments can use. For all of the talk in the West about the power of the Internet to democratize societies, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. Social media sites have been used there to entrench dictators and threaten dissidents, making it harder—not easier—to promote democracy.

Marshalling a compelling set of case studies, The Net Delusion shows why the cyber-utopian stance that the Internet is inherently liberating is wrong, and how ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of “Internet freedom” are misguided and, on occasion, harmful.

As a businessperson, you know that the online market presents a vast, largely untapped opportunity. But how do you go about making the most of that opportunity?
Whether you're one of the many merchants already using PayPal--or thinking about becoming one--this book will show you how PayPal can help integrate services like credit card payments, subscription billing, online invoicing, and more to help grow your business and improve the bottom line.
Both casual sellers and established business owners will learn how to use PayPal to:

• Assist customers--from accepting credit cards to allowing bank payments
• Manage money--from getting paid to helping you avoid fraud
• Apply reports--from assessing inventory to tracking profits
• Maximize growth--from expanding marketing to increasing sales

PayPal has the tools and this book shares the skills you need to learn, apply, and grow your business.