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How to use Google AdWords
Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on October 31, 2009
If you want to learn how to set-up a Google AdWords account and start placing ads to sell merchandise from your website, this video is for you.
Perhaps the best way to teach others how to use Google AdWords is by concrete example. Thus, today’s video shows how we set-up an AdWords campaign to sell copies of our market research report, Future Developments in Video Advertising.
First, we show you what the report for sale looks like.
Second, we illustrate the difference between Google AdWords links and Google Organic search results.
Third, we demonstrate how to set-up a “landing page” as an entry point at your website for those who click on ads deployed thorough AdWords. There are three features to the page. One is a video summarizing five major conclusions in the market research report offered for sale. Another is a link to a free prospectus requiring those clicking on it to first provide name, email address, and phone number information. This transforms them into sales leads. Finally, a text summary of the video is available for those who chose to read a synopsis of the report as opposed to watching a video summation.
Fourth, screen capture software provides step-by-step video instructions describing how to set-up an AdWords account and organize your first campaign. Factors covered include (1) geographic targeting, (2) network selection, (3) device inclusion, (4) key word selection, (5) pricing, (6) ad construction, (7) calls-to-action, (8) budgeting, (9) weekend exclusion, and (10) landing page targeting, among others.
Google’s third quarter financial results document that AdWords use is leading the way as a sign of overall economic recovery. In short, it appears that advertisers are first returning to the Internet before incumbent media channels such as TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines.
This could have profound implications for the future of advertising in general. Not only do sponsors seem to prefer the Internet per se, but they may also become conditioned to the AdWords practice of only paying for ads that users actively select. As applied to future video advertising, sponsors may come to demand that they only pay for video ads that actually get watched.
For example, they recognize DVR users often fast-forward through commercials. But if sponsors apply the AdWords convention to video commercials, they’ll only pay for commercials that get watched. This could be the subtle, but most significant, implication of the fact that AdWords advertising is leading the recovery of the entire advertising industry.
To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to such changes, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.
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I have been using Adwords for the last 2 years and i can only say that it increased my online sales by about 20%. The pay per click cost of Adwords is even cheaper than Adbrite. I love Adwords.