Mastering Google AdWords Select
There are some people for whom Google is a very generous god, one who, in return for small gifts, will bestow great fortune -- these are the people who use its AdWords program, which, according to many who run Web businesses, has revolutionized the way products are sold online.
AdWords ads are the ones you see on the right side of the screen when you do a Google search; they're small, text-based pitches that are triggered by keywords that advertisers bid on, as in an eBay auction. Google did not invent this ad model -- GoTo.com, now called Overture, has long been a leader in the field of keyword-based search ads, and, indeed, the company is suing Google for allegedly infringing on its patents. (Google denies any wrongdoing.) Overture has done remarkably well selling so-called pay-for-placement ads, which run on search sites all over the Web, including on Yahoo and MSN. This year, Overture will make over a billion dollars in revenue. But Google's program has attracted more advertisers because, Web owners say, it treats all businesses, regardless of size and wealth, equally.
"It works on a system that's independent of the cost," says Ashwin Iddya, the author of an e-book on AdWords. "In Overture, a big guy like eBay may beat all the other competitors," Iddya says, explaining that Overture determines rank strictly according to the price a company pays for a certain keyword. "In Google that's not a problem. In Google the listing of the ad depends on the price you pay and on the click-through rates" -- meaning that a big company's ad could end up lower than a small firm's ad if the small guy has a more attractive pitch.
"So I think most advertisers think that Google is God," Iddya says. "It's working out great for small businesses and medium businesses. Before this, they really didn't have a major avenue for advertising on the Internet. If you wanted to advertise in Yahoo or AltaVista, you needed to pay like $2,000 up front. Now you can start paying something like $5 and $10. You pay only for the clicks you get. So what you would call 'mom and pop' sites, people who start small businesses sitting at home, these people love Google."
Iddya himself has done well with Google's program. He lives in Bangalore, India, where a few years ago he got caught up in the tech boom. "I was a marketing executive at a dot-com that went bust," he says. "We burned all the V.C. money, just like any normal dot-com." After that, he started looking at Google's AdWords program and decided it was a good way to sell small products online -- which is what he did for a while, until "I realized that AdWords is different, and so I wrote a book about it." His book, which offers a step-by-step guide for creating effective ads, became a hit, and one day a reader asked Iddya if he would, for a fee, care to manage the reader's AdWords campaign. So that's what Iddya does now -- from India, he manages AdWords campaigns mostly for American firms. "It worked out," he says. "Now we have three employees and an office, and we are basically riding piggyback on Google."

"Mastering Google AdWords Select" is a comprehensive guide to optimizing your Google AdWords cost-per-click campaigns. Includes step-by-step instructions to squeeze the maximum out of your advertising dollar, explained with large screenshots and examples. Learn how to -
I. CUT ADWORDS CAMPAIGN COSTS
Cut campaign costs by choosing the optimum cost-per-click for your keywords. Reduce costs FURTHER by the "right" usage of AdGroups. Calculate the maximum CPC that you can afford to pay before you start your campaigns.
II. ACHIEVE HIGH CLICK-THROUGH RATES
Learn why maintaining high CTR is important. Learn how to create eye-catching text ads. Learn how to choose the right keywords for your ads.
III. GRAB AND HOLD ON TO THE TOP POSITION
Learn how to hold on to the top position WITHOUT outbidding your competitors. Learn how to improve the traffic (number of clicks per day). Tips & Tricks to boost your website conversion rates. (Number of sales per 100 visitors).
MasteringAdWords.com offers a comprehensive guide to optimizing your AdWords Select Cost-Per-Click campaign. Includes Google AdWords optimization tips to reduce campaign costs, increase click through rate and stay on top without outbidding competitors.
MasteringAdWords.com also offers competitively priced Google AdWords campaign management services. Our pricing starts at $150 per month per campaign for unlimited keywords, unlimited AdGroups and unlimited changes in the campaign.
Mastering Google AdWords Select was founded by Ashwin Iddya in April 2002 and is owned by Blue Flame Internet Pvt. Ltd, a Bangalore (India) based internet advertising company. Other services include -
- Affiliate program management
- Keyword Research
- Conversion rate analysis
- Keyword and ad campaign ROI tracking
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