Course Topics & Pricing

Pricing

Each day-long seminar is divided into two 4-hour sessions. The cost for a full day seminar is $249 (USD).

What does this cost include?
  • $50.00 (USD) AdWords advertising credit*
  • USB thumb drive with all seminar materials
  • Refreshments**
  • Other Google goodies
*Credit will be given to attendees who register at least 7 days before the seminar date. View the terms and conditions of advertising credits.

**In an effort to keep the cost of the seminars as low as possible, lunch will not be provided, but there will be a refreshment break in the morning and afternoon.

Course Topics

Seminars are offered in the following topics and levels:

AdWords:   Beginner & Intermediate

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Morning session Afternoon session
Introduction to online advertising & Google AdWords
  • Types of online advertising
  • Basics of pay-per-click advertising
  • Introduction to AdWords
    • Features
    • Benefits
    • Basic terminology
Optimization techniques
  • Location Targeting
  • Demographic Bidding
  • Optimize to increase conversions
  • Optimize to increase traffic
  • Optimize to increase Quality Score
  • Optimize for Google Network
    • Ad types (Image Ad, Local Business Ad, Mobile Ad, Click-to-Play Video Ad) Imae
    • Site targeting
    • CPM bidding
Navigating Your Account
  • Creating an account
  • Proper account structure
  • Understanding campaign, ad group, and keyword statistics
  • Editing Campaign Settings
  • Editing CPCs

How to Create a Campaign

  • Creating a campaign, step-by-step

Tracking ad performance

  • Conversion Tracking
  • Google Analytics

Additional tools & features

  • Introduction to the AdWords Editor
  • Ads Preview Tool

Billing & Reports

  • Understanding Billing
  • Billing Cycle

Beginning Optimization

(Definition: Optimization is the process of modifying your ad campaigns to improve the quality and performance of your AdWords ads.)

  • Using Reports
  • Developing Keyword Lists
    • Using the Keyword Tool
    • Using the Edit Campaign Negative Keywords Tool
    • Using the Traffic Estimator
  • Creating Compelling Ad Text
    • Ad Writing Workshop
    • Campaign Optimizer

  • Open Q&Athem





  • AdWords:   Advanced

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    Morning session Afternoon session

    Introduction

    • Definitions & terminology

    Creative workshop

    • Creating Compelling Ads
    • Dynamic Keyword Insertion
    • Ad Writing Workshop

    Managing Accounts

    • Introduction to My Client Center
    • Introduction to the AdWords API
    • Template Library

    How to use the AdWords Editor

    • Collaboration
    • Making large-scale changes
    • Copying or moving between campaigns, ad groups, and accounts
    • Performing advanced searches and edits
    • Adding comments to changes
    • Sorting and viewing Statistics

    Optimization Techniques

    • Location Targeting
    • Demographic Bidding
    • Site and Category Exclusion
    • IP Exclusion

    Advanced bidding options

    • Ad Scheduling
    • Position Preference
    • Conversion Optimizer

    Tracking performance with Google Analytics

    • Setting up profiles
    • Goal setting
    • Analyzing reports

    How to use the Website Optimizer

    • Creating Experiments
    • Reports
    • Taking action on your landing page

    Introduction to Other Campaign Options

    • Television Campaigns
    • Audio Campaigns
    • Print Campaigns
    • Ad Creation Marketplace

    Open Q&A



    Analytics: Introduction & User Training

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    Morning session Afternoon session
    Introduction to web analytics
    • The Google Analytics story, introduction to complementary Google products
    • Successful Web Analytics Approaches
    • Case study
    What do you want to track?
    • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
    • Traffic Sources analysis
    • Lead Generation metrics
    • Branding and Rich Internet Application (RIA) metrics
    • Keyword analysis
    • Website design/Site Content Optimization
    • E-commerce
    Case Studies
    Reports interface
    • Introduction to reports: Overview, Visitors, Traffic, Content, E-Commerce
    • Discuss interface features
    • Date selection tool
    • Exporting and saving reports
    • Customizing dashboards
    • Emailing reports
    Optimizing AdWords and PPC campaigns
    • Campaign tracking
    • Targeting campaigns around location, site, time of day, keyword position
    • AdWords tips and tricks: budget controls, keyword types
    Introduction to experimentation and tracking
    • Ad Creatives, Landing Pages, Refining Keywords, Shopping Cart Funnels
    • Manual Campaign Tracking
    • Other Google products: Website Optimizer, Feedburner, Webmaster Tools
    Creating a data driven culture
    Administrative interface
    • Setting up an account and profile
    • Adding users
    • Overview of standard filters
    • Overview of Goals and funnels
    • Overview of Site Search
    • Linking with AdWords
    The Importance of Goals
    • Non e-commerce vs. e-commerce
    Case study
    Troubleshooting
    • “Not set”, “other”, sampling, set up, linking
    • Common errors and how to avoid them
    • Help Center, GAAC program, Discussion Forum
    Open questions & answers


    Analytics: Advanced Technical Implementation

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    Morning session Afternoon session
    Intro: Successful web analytics approaches/Creating a data driven culture

    Overview
    • Architecture and process
    • Intro: the .js file
    • Managing Profiles
    • Review: Emailing and Exporting
    • Advanced Filters
    • Case Study
    Goals and Funnels
    • Dynamic Goals
    • Cross-domain tracking
    • Shopping Cart Funnels
    • RegEx
    Advanced Profile/Filter Combos
    • Segmenting Traffic
    • Testing
    • Raw Data profiles & other advanced situations
    Advanced tracking
    • Marketing campaign tracking
    • Custom segmentation
    • Event Tracking: Tracking Flash, Ajax, Javascript, Rich Internet Application
    • Outbound link tracking
    • Checkout integration
    • Site Search report
    Code Customizations
    • 3rd party developed
    • Unsupported techniques and .js additions or modifications
    Introduction to Urchin Software
     

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