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Google Adwords Sends A Book Gift

// April 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Affiliate Marketing, Campus Bookstore, Google Adwords, Google Marketing, Online Marketing Tools, PPC

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This morning, when I came into the office, I found a white box sitting on my desk from Google Adwords. In it was a letter from Google and a book, Always Be Testing – “The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer”. It was a great surprise! Google is doing it’s best to remind advertisers and businesses to keep marketing, even during these uncertain times, as this has been shown to dramatically increase business. At first, it does seem odd to ramp up marketing efforts during a time of economic uncertainty, but Google is right! Now is the time that businesses have to maximize their advertising efforts and focus on conversion.

I can’t wait to get into this book and share the information with the readership here, at affiliate school house. As you may already know, your website/landing page content, layout, and graphical elements, all play key roles in coversion rates. Apparently, Google has endorsed the authors of this book , who will show us the best strategies for increasing coversions by utilizing the Google Website Optimizer Tool – a power users guide, if you will.

Watch the video below where I share with you the contents of the box and explain what it is that Google is doing for their advertisers. It’s nice to receive a surprise in the mail. We operate so much of our businesses online, that it is very easy to forget about snail mail. Nice thought on behalf of Google to reach out to their advertisers that are using their marketing product – Adwords.

Google Adwords PPC Ad Auction Explained

// March 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Affiliate Marketing, Google Adwords, Google Marketing

Are you stumped by Google’s formula that determines ad serving, quality score and CPC values? If so, I have come across a video that will surely help you make sense of the Google PPC marketing mystery. Mr. Hal Varian of Google does a fantastic job of explaining and frankly, demystifying, the phenomenon surrounding the Google Adwords Ad Auction process. He also explains how your max CPC bid and quality score determine how much you pay for a click on Google. Hal does an awesome job by giving real world examples on his nifty dry erase board – seriously, this concrete, real-world example is very good. If you have been confused by Google’s methods of determining ad placement, quality score, and CPC values you will definitely want to see this video.

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