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The Google Content Network is a powerful way to get massive traffic to your websites . Clicks are relatively inexpensive, with some successful campaigns reporting rates as low as $.02 per click. This part of Google’s advertising platform is geared towards hundreds of thousands of websites across the internet reaching an astounding 80% of internet users around the world. The content network is a unique system because it spans many different industries and niches making it easy for advertisers to place their ads to an audience that is looking for particular niches and resources. By matching up related advertisements to popular niches, Google has created a smart way to online businesses to profit with high quality targeted traffic. The difference between the search network and the content network is that in search, users are shown advertisements based on keyword searches that are relative to the advertisers campaign, whereas with the content network, advertisements are shown to users as they research specific interests and surf websites that are related to the advertiser’s keywords. When you are first setting up your campaigns, it is important to run your Search and Content campaigns separately. They are two very different advertising systems, and you do not want to confuse the two types of traffic. Keeping everything separate will also keep you organized which is critical in creating a successful Google ad campaign. One common theme similar to the search and content networks is to test your ad campaigns with both forms of advertising. Trying different creatives and formats will help you to discover what converts better for you. One big key to using the content network effectively is to track everything. You need to have reliable tracking in place to see where your traffic is coming from, and what ads are converting. Google Analytics provides a free platform for tracking your ads effectiveness, and the software is web based and relatively simple to use. Does Google Adwords scare you? It used to frighten me! I hated the thought of wasting my hard earned money on a bunch of clicks that were never going to convert to sales. That is, until I discovered the 3 critically important videos that showed me step by step how to easily create a successful Google Adwords campaign. ====> Click Here for FREE Exclusive Access to 7 Top Google Content Network Tips and Tricks Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ppc-advertising-articles/google-content-network-strategies-tips-for-success-on-the-content-network-1643033.html

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Google Content Network Strategies – Tips For Success on the Content Network

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The end of the year is typically a time to reflect on the past 12 months and plan for the next adventure. Taking inspiration from our favorite pre-holiday work distraction, we are pleased to bring you the Agency blog's own "best of 2009." Your visits and time spent on site helped us identify the information, ideas and resources that can best help you move your clients' businesses forward. 1. Google Content Network tips and tools - Knowing that the Content Network offers the opportunity to scalably expand your clients' reach, we posted on a number of Content Network topics , ranging from tools to optimization tips to training resources . We hope that they enabled you to plan, execute and measure your Content Network campaigns in the most impactful, efficient and cost-effective ways possible. 2. Quality Score - A key element of successful campaigns is ensuring that they have the strongest Quality Score possible. Whether you're brand new to search marketing, or were one of the first search advertisers on the scene, there's always something new to learn about Quality Score. To help you get the strongest Quality Score, we ran our Quality Score series and will continue to post new tips as they become available. 3. Case studies - One piece of feedback we heard is that agencies and advertisers value case studies, as they inspire and instruct with "best in class" examples and useful data points. We also heard that sometimes they're not easy to find. As a result, we added case studies to the 2009 blog list, with topics ranging from online-to-stores successes to effective integrated media campaigns . 4. Training resources - With the frequency of additions and updates to Google's media solutions, you could spend as much time keeping up to speed as you do managing your clients' campaigns. Knowing your time is precious, we focused on webinars and on-demand videos that work with your schedules and deliver just the right amount of information. In addition, we introduced you to Google AgencyLand , our new learning and resources platform for agencies. 5. Analytics - Whether you love data, or love to hate data, data is central to successful campaigns. We want you all to love it, so we posted our favorite Analytics 60-second videos, product updates, as well as useful tips delivered from in-house experts, including Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik. 6. Local marketing resources - Sometimes your clients' customer is half way across the globe; other times the customer is half a block away. Regardless, it is important to market to consumers where they are, and Google has made it easier to do that with new and improved local marketing features , such as Location Extensions and Place Pages in Placement Performance reports . It's been a pleasure blogging for you in 2009, and we look forward to bringing you fresh new tips, tactics, resources and updates in 2010. Posted by Agency Ad Solutions Blog Team

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In the last 18 months or so we have made significant changes to the Google Content Network to deliver better performance for advertisers and agencies and to simplify the process of serving ads across a range of websites. As we roll out more features, we want to make it easy for you to keep up and understand what best fits your needs. To this effect, we've just launched a new Content Network brand channel on YouTube . The site is stockpiled with videos, links and downloads about the full suite of features and solutions on the Content Network. Structured into four key sections, you can learn about various products across the campaign execution cycle and how they help you achieve your various advertising goals. Case studies and research papers from various industries show what the most successful advertisers on the Content Network are doing. And if you need help getting started, please contact us (response times will vary). And last but not the least, we've also introduced a new creative direction for our videos, to add some color and fun. Enjoy the first 5 videos below, and let us know what you think by sharing your comments on YouTube. ( click here to view videos ) And you can always bookmark the playlist . Posted by Aman Govil, Product Marketing Manager, Google Content Network

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New resource for display advertisers on the Content Network

If you live in the New York area, you may have heard or seen the so-called "Google surge," or Google Content Network blast that NY Mayor Bloomberg used to impact voters' decisions in the final hours of the mayor's reelection race. An increasing number of advertisers across industries, including auto, retail, and entertainment, have also used Google Content Network blasts to drive awareness of a new vehicle launch, viewer tune-in for a show, or traffic to an online contest with great success. The Google Content Network blast entails serving up an advertiser's ads on multiple Google Content Network sites over a specific period of time, blanketing a particular geographic region, audience segment, or high traffic sites, depending on the advertiser's goal. On average, blasts can deliver 100 million ad impressions in 24-48 hours. But you're probably wondering what is special about Google Content Network blasts versus your typical portal homepage buy? Google Content Network blasts deliver your message on a larger universe of sites than a single portal homepage, thereby reaching more of your customers. In a recent Google and TNS Compete study for a large automaker 1 , we found that Google Content Network blasts reach 58% of online auto buyers, which is 20% more than a top portal homepage 2 , and 23% of buyers were reached exclusively on sites available only on the Google Content Network 2 . In addition, 30% of auto buyers never went to one of the major portal homepages 6 to 9 months prior to purchasing their vehicle 3 . And the best part of all is Google Content Network blasts require no advance booking and deliver relevant ads at a much lower CPM than portal takeovers. So, as we enter the peak holiday shopping season, consider how you're getting the word out on your merchandise and holiday offerings. Want to make a last minute big impression? Visit The Google Content Network site to learn more, and try out a Google Content Network blast for yourself. 1 Google, Inc. and TNS Compete study for large automaker, May 2009 2 Reach is based on a custom GCN site pack using a parameter of 2% buyer composition mix per site 3 Based on observed clickstream behavior of buyers Posted by Keiko Tokuda, Google Content Network Marketing Team

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Google Content Network Blast delivers a big bang for your buck

As we've previously said , one of our aims is to improve display advertising on the web and, as a result, grow the display advertising pie for everyone. Three simple principles guide our approach: simplify the system for buying and selling display ads; deliver better performance that advertisers and agencies can measure; open up the ecosystem by making it accessible to more participants. One question on the mind of every advertiser and agency is: how can I better measure the impact of my display ad campaign? We hear you. A growing number of advertisers and agencies are running display ad campaigns across the Google Content Network, so we're investing substantially in creating better measurement tools for our clients. At the moment, an advertiser can measure how many clicks its display ads achieve, measure conversions that result from those clicks, compare results with industry benchmark data , and use View-through conversion reporting to measure visits to its website from users who saw its display ad in the past. Today, we're pleased to announce the launch of a brand new tool to measure the impact of your display ads - Google Campaign Insights. As of today, Google Campaign Insights is available for larger display ad campaigns across the Google Content Network in the US and UK. Over time, we hope to roll it out more widely to assist even more advertisers and agencies in different parts of the world. Google Campaign Insights is a unique measurement tool that can give reliable data about how a campaign has raised brand awareness, or active user interest, in a particular product or service. It looks beyond the traditional measures of clicks and conversions to calculate the incremental lift in both online search activity and website visits that result from a display ad campaign. How does this all work? In short, we use the same expertise we use to improve our own services -- our ability to analyze large quantities of data. Google Campaign Insights compares two anonymized and aggregated data sets: a large group of users (many thousands, minimum) who saw a particular ad, with an equivalent, large group that did not see the ad. It then measures whether there is any significant difference in searches and visits to the advertiser's website between the two groups. Doing this, Google Campaign Insights can determine the incremental change that is directly attributable to the display ad campaign. With this insight, advertisers can establish how well their display ad campaign is working. ( Click for full size image ) ( Click for full size image ) Google Campaign Insights provides highly reliable results to marketers because of the statistical methodology our computer algorithms use to combine and analyze large volumes of data from several sources -- the advertiser's own campaign information, ad serving logs and sampled data from Google Toolbar installs that have opted in to enhanced features. All of the results reported to advertisers are anonymized and aggregated over thousands of users. Advertisers or agencies who run wide-scale display ad campaigns on the Google Content Network and who want to take Google Campaign Insights for a spin should check with their Google representative. We're excited about the contribution that Google Campaign Insights can make to our clients' campaigns on the Google Content Network and to display advertising generally. Posted by Paul Todd, Product Management Director [Note: This post has been reprinted from the Inside AdWords Blog ]

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Google Campaign Insights: Better measurement for display advertising

A few weeks ago, Josh Dreller, Vice President of Media Technology for Fuor Digital, sat down with one of our own Content Optimization Specialists, Jasper Seldin. Josh had some questions about the Google Content Network, and in this interview on the Search Engine Land blog, Jasper shares his thoughts on some hot topics, including: Best practices for using negative keywords on the Content Network How costs-per-click are calculated on the Content Network How content targeting identifies themes in ads and web pages Tips for setting up direct response campaigns on the Content Network Read the full article to uncover all the details that Jasper shared with Josh, and for more information about the Content Network, check out our Content Network site . Posted by the Agency Ad Solutions Blog Team

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Google Content Network Q&A