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SEO Training - Tracking Adwords Keyword Data with Google Analytics, Adwords exclusion and blocking domains

A friend pointed me to a blog post from Apollo SEM about tracking Adwords keyword data in Google Analytics. I really recommend reading this article because there hasn’t really been an easy way to do this.
This is for sure a great way to help you budget your campaigns a lot better. By being able to see what keywords are doing the best/worst you can tweak your spending accordingly!

Sticking with the Adwords theme here, I also found a good post there about how to exclude your site from showing your own ads. Makes sense right? Why pay for someone to click on your ad when they are already at a site of yours?

SEO Training - Setting up Google Adwords

How to set up Google AdWords step by step. This is an AdWords beginner guide for advertisers who want to learn AdWords Setup and How to set up Google AdWords step by step. This is an AdWords beginner guide for advertisers who want to learn AdWords Setup and Some AdWords Tips. Most basic tips are covered in this PPC video tutorial for marketers.

SEO Training - PPC Basics

“Here’s a sample of what’s in this video…

- Broad Matching. How to avoid losing money by choosing the wrong keywords.

- Phrase Matching… and the secret of grouping words together to lower your PPC costs and raise your ROI immediately.

- Exact Matching. It is what it says… how to show people exactly what they’re looking
for. And nothing else.

- Negative Keywords and how you can “screen” your traffic. Only pay for profitable clicks, not for the money-suckers.

- Grouping and Siloing your Campaigns. How to avoid a common mistake made by almost all PPC marketers. If you don’t Group and Silo, you’ll be hit by the Google Slap…when you know how to do this right, your Cost Per Click goes WAY down, and your conversions go WAY UP.

- How to make Google LOVE you — and reward you with cheaper clicks, higher Click Throughs, and better Conversions.

- The power of CLP. When you start using this technique, watch your profits soar! This
is the one and only technique that gets you past the “Google Slap”, keeps your prospects
happy, and spikes your sales like crazy.

- The 3 secrets to improving your Quality Score with Google, and how to start using them immediately.

- The one f.ree tool from Google you must use… that increases your CTR automatically.

- How to configure your settings in Google for the best results (no tease, no fluff, we
use screenshots and just SHOW you the settings to use).

- The right number of ads to create for each ad group… and the correct rotation to show them at.

- How to monitor and track the Content Network clicks — screw this up and you’ll cost yourself big-time. We show you the best tool for this.

- All about Analytics — we cut through the confusion and show you just what you need to
know about Google Analytics… including how to use Analytics data to alter your pages for
better ROI.

- How to use Analytics to know absolutely everything that’s happening in your sales
funnel — right down to how long people spend on each page.

- The Perpetual Keyword Money Machine. Working with our friends at ThemeZoom, we
came up with this theory of using PPC to test ANY market, find the long-tail keywords, and
turn your PPC results into natural SEO traffic.

- How to use your SEO discoveries to build Theme-Based sites around your market; why you
must use BOTH the PPC and the SEO approaches to continuous floods of traffic.

- Using your Theme-Based Sites to go deep and uncover sub-niches that nobody else even
knows about.

- The 3 types of Money Keywords and how to use them to make more money.

- How to use your PPC and SEO discoveries to actually create your content — NEVER wonder again about what content will pay you the most profits.

- The right way to use your weblogs to power the system, and set your Perpetual Keyword Money Machine into motion, bringing you profits month after month, year after year.”

SEO Training - How to setup a PPC Campaign

A pretty in depth explaination of how to setup a PPC Campaign using Google Adwords