The New Year festivities have come and gone, and it's now time to return to the daily grind. To add a little color to the January doldroms, we're pleased to share the newly redesigned Google for Advertisers - the central destination for advertisers and their agency partners to understand what it is Google does for advertising. So what has changed? One big change is the homepage where we now illustrate how Google's tools work together to support the entire value chain of marketing, from insights to creative to media to measurement and optimization . We've been calling these areas of focus the "marketing cycle" and we hope it's a clear and lasting way to help advertisers and agencies make sense of how everything they're working on fits with everything we're working on. Beyond the new homepage, we added fresh content like our video overview of the Google Content Network and ways to stay up-to-date through twitter, trainings and quick videos. Because we work with partners from around the globe, we're working hard to translate the site into additional languages and create locally-relevant content in other parts of the world. To kick off this effort, we're pleased to introduce our first localized site - Google for Advertisers UK . To check out the new sites, please visit Google.com/advertisers or Google.co.uk/advertisers . Happy New Year! Posted by Oliver Deighton, Business Marketing
Google Content Network Strategies – Tips For Success on the Content Network
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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New ways to optimize Content Network campaigns
We are often asked about how to maximize the ROI from Content Network campaigns. What type of targeting should I use? How many keywords and ad groups should I have? How can I develop effective creatives? Behind the scenes of many new product introductions this year, we have developed a set of best practices to answer some of these questions for you. Recently introduced as part of a new initiative called Optimization University, these are now available to everyone through a series of 6 videos and the Getting Started guide . The guide and videos provide a conceptual walk-through and product demos of major steps in executing a Content Network campaign. campaign setup best practices creative appropriate ad groups selecting effective keywords developing high impact ad creative bidding strategies conversion tracking and tweaking for ROI Along with simple tips and tricks to improve ROI, we also go over several tools, such as Wonder Wheel , Keyword Tool and Conversion Tracking , that help you be more efficient with the process. The recommendations are based on our analysis of thousands of campaigns, successful and unsuccessful ones, to understand what works and what doesn't. They are easy enough for you to start applying them to your campaigns today. If you're starting a new Content Network campaign, watch the first video below; you may find it to be particularly valuable. ( click here to view video ) And you can always bookmark the playlist or find all the latest videos on our YouTube channel . Posted by Aman Govil, Product Marketing Manager, Google Content Network
New resource for display advertisers on the Content Network
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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Introducing the Next Leap of In-Text Advertising
Competition is good for everyone. From an economic perspective, competition drives industries to find better, longer lasting solutions for customers, while allowing customers to familiarize themselves with multiple choices and choose the optimal one for their needs. This is especially true for the online advertising industry in this day and age, where publishers are surrounded by many advertising networks offering different solutions for website monetization. Since Google launched Adsense, the pay per click advertising solution that has become the market leader, the online advertising industry has vastly evolved. Now, publishers can choose from a plethora of ad programs to be used as an Adsense alternative or Adsense complementary to enhance a site’s earnings. In the highly advanced technological world, the offering of different online advertising solutions, from text links to video ads, is in constant growth. By combining the right mix of ad types on a website, publishers get to cater ads that fit the taste of different audiences. Many publishers seek to reveal the Adsense secrets in order to increase their sites’ PPC ads performance. While this can certainly help boost a site’s income, another strategy to employ would be to expand your site’s reach to more users, since such a site will ultimately generates higher revenues. The way to reach more users is by offering more interesting, engaging formats and by utilizing multiple revenue streams to drive up your pages’ yield. A publisher’s web page should be treated as a dynamic investment. Webmasters and bloggers should take advantage of the different locations on their page real-estate to experiment with various pay per click ad formats. When using In-Text advertising, publishers aren’t required to allocate additional page real estate. Instead, In-Text ads are embedded within the pages content, and are launched only when a user chooses to interact with them. To see an ad, the user mouses over a double underlined keyword and a contextually relevant clickable ad unit is launched. In-Text advertising can be used alongside Google Adsense while keeping your site’s appearance clean and uncluttered. Online advertising solutions have to provide added value to all members of the web’s ecosphere: advertisers, publishers and users. Relevancy is the key for successful In-Text advertising and by utilizing advanced and proprietary technology some ad networks have managed to maximize their ability to match a page’s content and the In-Text ads that are showcased in it. Going beyond keyword targeting, In-Text advertising now employs Story-Level Targeting, which is the ability to understand in real-time the overall theme of any given page. It is able to comprehend the true topics of the story and accurately match the most relevant advertisements to each page by using the most appropriate keyword phrases to make this connection. Story Level Targeting takes into consideration all dynamic content updates, and works regardless of the general topical categorization of the site. Story Level targeting is a revolutionary addition to the online advertising industry and advertisers and publishers should be sure to work only with the networks providing this degree of accuracy. Kontera In Text Advertising is the first to offer Story Level Targeting for better meeting publishers and advertisers pay per click advertising targets. Join Kontera’s publisher network and benefit from our special holiday bonus for online publishers. Kontera now pays double for your clicks! Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ppc-advertising-articles/introducing-the-next-leap-of-intext-advertising-1559883.html
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Upcoming webinars to get you thinking
In the coming weeks Google's marketing teams will be hosting webinars on the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, how to reach physicians online, and planning for 2010. In reading this and other posts, you're probably thinking, "There's a lot of 'Think' resources out there." You're right! We've got Think with Google webinars, focusing on cross-industry research and best practices; ThinkIndustry webinars and events, highlighting research and trends to help inform vertical-specific marketing strategies; and Think2010 , resources to help you get ahead during the recovery. Lots to think about! Additional details and registration information can be found below. DoubleClick Ad Exchange Overview In September, we launched DoubleClick Ad Exchange, an open and transparent marketplace that aggregates buyers and sellers of online display advertising. Join us for a one hour webinar which covers what the Ad Exchange is, how it impacts pricing, inventory and the Google Content Network, and what solution to choose. Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:30amPST / 1:30pmCST / 2:30pmEST Event password: ad Registration password: agency1 Register here ThinkHealth with Google - Connecting with Physicians Online Google recently conducted a study on how physicians use the Internet, and specifically search, as a part of their clinical practice. Join us for a webinar to review how physicians use the web for health, medical and prescription drug information, which they use to make health decisions. The insights will help you best utilize the Internet and search to adapt marketing programs to target physicians. Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009 11amPST / 1pmCST / 2pmEST Register here Think2010: Four Winning Moves for 2010 In our ever-changing marketplace, marketers need to thoughtfully plan the moves that will differentiate their offerings, increase competitive advantage, and seize opportunities as the economy recovers. Join us as Bonita Stewart, Managing Director, US Sales, leads a discussion on four winning marketing strategies you can utilize to prepare your business for success in 2010 and beyond. Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10amPST / 12pmCST / 1pmEST Register here Posted by Agency Ad Solutions Blog Team
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Google Content Network Q&A
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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