Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Google AdWords

Google AdWords information can be found all over the net and of course one of the main places is Google itself at http://www.google.com/adwords and at the AdWords support site.

Today I came across a couple of useful additional items to help out.

The first is a video from the Chief Economist at Google and it explains AdWords in plain terms: Introduction to Google AdWords Auction. There are lots more at the Google YouTube Business Channel.

Google also has a blog dedicated to AdWords: Google AdWords Blog and lots of online help. There are of course many books on the topic that you can get as well. Amazon certainly has plenty on offer: Amazon Books. One book I am reading myself is entitled "Winning Results with Google Adwords" by Andrew Goodman.

And for those of you with a theoretical bent, maybe it is just me, here is a research paper from Standford analyzing the auction mechanisms behind AdWords: Standford Research Paper. This paper is only for those with a mathematical inclination and not for the faint of heart!

It pays to be careful with something like AdWords until you really know what you are doing and then it is a fantastically powerful marketing tool.

Owen