ppc week 1 part 1
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USING PAY-PER-CLICK MARKETING
PROFITABLYJeff Coleman
Internet Marketing Geek
Why PPC Marketing?
The Appeal Advertise only to people who are looking
right now for what you are offering Pay only when they click to show their
interest
The Challenge It’s easy to start a PPC campaign,
but it is not easy to make it profitable
Goals of This Class
Provide you with a basic understanding of PPC
Give you the tools to create profitable PPC campaigns for generating sales or leads
Guide you to resources that will allow you to take your PPC knowledge to the next level
Things You Will Learn
How PPC works How to build a PPC campaign properly
Keyword researchOrganizing keywords & building ad groupsWriting adsBidding strategiesLanding page optimization
How to measure the success of your PPC campaign
About Me
Why should you listen to me? Formal education: doesn’t matter
(Wharton School at UPenn if you care, but it really doesn’t matter)
On-the-virtual-street educationMillion dollar PPC campaigns that determined
whether a company was profitable or notDirector of Search for Geary Interactive –
oversaw 100+ campaigns at a timeLearned from Perry Marshall – e-books,
courses, in-person seminars
What is Search?
Keyword phrases Search engines (U.S. market)
GoogleYahooMicrosoft/Live/BingAsk
Search engine results pages (SERPs)
How People Currently Search Multiple keywords (2-5 words)
server backup solution
Product specific Panasonic cordless phone dect AT&T cl82359
Service and location specific san diego landscaper
Answering a question How do I re-finance my home?
Organic Search Results
Organic Search Results
Paid Search Results
The Dominant Search Player
• ~70% of searches in US and worldwide• >70% of PPC traffic• All about relevance• Figure out Google Adwords and the others
fall into place
Evolution of PPC AdvertisingThe Players GoTo/Overture - 1998 Google Adwords - 2002 Yahoo Search - 2003 Microsoft AdCenter - 2006 MicroHoo! (or is it YaSoft) - 2009
Evolution of PPC AdvertisingThe Mechanisms Pure CPC CPC plus CTR Quality scores
CTRLanding page/site
Pursuit of Relevance
The PPC (Google) EquationPPC x CTR x QS = Position PPC = Price per Click or Bid CTR = Click-thru Rate QS = Quality Score of Landing Page/Site Conversion Rate? Position = Where you are on the page
How Google Makes Money Relevant search results = more searches Make the most $ per 1000 searches Take a long-term view Keep searchers from wasting their time Why does this matter to PPC marketers?
“Tricking” Google is a short-term winAvoid the Google “slap” when changes are
made
Summary
PPC delivers customers at the time they are looking for your product or service
You only pay for interested customers – ones who click on your ad
Google is the dominant search engine PPC x CTR x QS = Position Relevance is key to good PPC results
Next Steps
Take the Quiz Choose a topic for your search
campaign Continue on to Week 1, Part 2 Additional Resource: The Definitive
Guide to Google Adwords by Perry Marshall (e-book) http://www.perrymarshall.com/adwords/