PPC Training

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pay per click campaign management training

Yesterday was the culmination of the first ever formal PPC training I conducted. For 2 Saturday afternoons, the training covered the introduction to PPC campaign management.

On the first session, we covered the elements of a PPc campaign. The trainess where shown the process of setting up a PPC campaign starting with keyword research and competitor analysis down to the creation of ad copies. The subjects discussed included landing page copywriting as well as checking relevance of keyowrds and ad copies.

On the second session, we discussed how to setup tracking URLs especially with non-Google Adwords campaigns, that would be tracked in Google Analytics. This time we covered the essence of conversion tracking and optimization. The trainees were taught how to optimize campaigns and what to look for in an existing campagin. They were the taught how to setup goals in google Analytics as well as setting up custom reports and advanced segments using both the old and new Google Analytics.

Data Segmentation – Google Analytics

Getting website traffic is almost everybody’s goal. Getting qualified traffic, the penultimate. But how would you know when you’ve got quality traffic to your website? Analytics! My favorite tool as always is Google Analytics. It’s FREE and it does the job, most of the times.

Now back to knowing if you have quality traffic to your site. To know it, you need to know how to segment your traffic. What should be included in the report? What exclusions do you need to do? The official Google Analytics blog released a series of posts title “The Power of Exclusion”. Here’s a recap:

  1. Power of Exclusion Part I – discussed in this post is how to setup Advanced Segment.
  2. Power of Exclusion Part II – in this 2nd post, how to use Advanced Segments is discussed
  3. Power of Exclusion Part III – how to read and analyze the report

Segment Your Website’s Traffic

Looking at the traffic your site gets using a web analytics software such Google Analytics easy. Understanding the data is a different thing though. The most common of all the data we can get is what you can see below:

web analytics

There are usually 3 traffic sources sharing the “pie” for your website. Direct Traffic, Referring Sites, and Search Engines. Who are they? Which type of visitors are in each segment?

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