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Google Ads Comprehensive Course

The course is designed as a handbook and guide for building and managing a successful Google Ads campaign. Whether you are beginning your journey in digital marketing or have a couple of years experience and want to upskill and become more professional, this course is for you! The course is all encompassing, covering everything you need to know to be great as a Google Ads marketer. We start from a basic level all the way up to covering advanced strategies.

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How Is This Course Different?

  • Most courses teach you a lot of the ‘what’ - what are CPC’s? what is a campaign? Some courses teach you a bit of the ‘how’ - how to set up an account, how to adjust bids and other technical aspects. Even courses that do teach you the ‘how’ tend to focus mainly on account setup only. (don’t take my word for it, look through the course curriculums.)
  • In this course we will cover both the what and the how. And not just how to setup an account, we also show you what you should be doing on an ongoing basis. This is what we actually do when we manage an account in our agency. We are also going to show you how to create an account that is not just technically excellent but also strategically excellent.
  • We believe a great account requires two levels of greatness. The first is to have an excellently built and run account on a technical level, this means all the technical aspects are implemented according to best practice.
  • On the second level the account needs to be strategically excellent, which means that the account is a translation of the marketing strategy implemented in practice. We translate the strategy into the framework and tactics of Google ads.
  • I would argue that 90% of marketers out there still do not understand this discrepancy between strategy and tactics, in the course we explain this difference and how it greatly affects the way you use Google Ads.
  • The aim is that by the end of this course you will have a thorough understanding of Google Ads including all the key concepts within the platform and how to work with it in the best way. This will be taught as a practical guide for setting up and running a successful account both on a basic, strategic and advanced level.
  • The course is designed in a way that it can be used as a handbook for you to apply to your own campaigns or your own clients. Practicality and usefulness was our guiding principal in writing the course. We start by providing a strong understanding of Google Ads concepts and then focus on practice and application, giving you the tools to manage your own account well.
  • We show you how we manage our own successful accounts, which you can use as a blueprint to running for your campaigns. This includes planning, research, account builds, basic and advanced optimisations.

What You Will Learn

  • Thorough understanding of all the major concepts in Google Ads.
  • Gain a solid background for planning and researching to assist in account setup.
  • Become empowered to build an excellent Google Ads account.
  • Introduction to advanced concepts in Google Ads.
  • Achieve a broad understanding of what is involved in ongoing account management and have the ability to practically manage an account day to day.
  • Gain a basic understanding of marketing strategy and how to best use Google Ads as a technical implementation tool.

Are There Any Prerequisites?

  • No previous requirements necessary
  • Having a Google Ads account already would be useful
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Learning Path

8 Lessons
We discuss the purpose of the course, who it is designed for and why it’s different to other courses. Mark talks also about his background and experience. We also cover the outcomes.
We cover the curriculum of the course and explain what we will be covering in each section of the course.
Google Ads is one of the most popular digital marketing advertising platforms in the work. We look at all the different advertising products contained within the platform. We also discuss the advantages of Google Ads and why it is different to other types of advertising.
The Ad Auction is key to the way Google places adverts. This is important to understand in order to run a successful campaign since it places emphasis on ad quality. Extra info on Google Ad Rank: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1722122?hl=en-AU
We discuss what we cover in this section of the course. Then we jump in, looking at the account structure from a high level and map out where different parts of the account are located. We cover the concept of a campaign and an adgroup and the settings and features found at each level.
This walkthrough guides you through the Google Ads account setup process from scratch. We provide tips and advice as we setup your first campaigns and show you which settings to review and make sure you have selected the right options.
We continue our walkthrough inside Google Ads, we deep dive into the settings on the Campaign level and the Adgroup level. We provide recommendations on how to setup your settings.
Clicks, Impressions, CPC’s, CTR’s, QS…. We demystify the meaning of metrics We also look at the difference between a dimension and a metric and how they are tied together. We show that metrics change at different levels of the account. We look at how you can adjust your metrics, add them to reports and which are the key ones to be concerned about! We also talk about Metrics that come from Google Analytics. And we touch on creating your own calculated metrics.
Keywords are the essence of Google Ads, we discuss keyword match types and how to use them. We also review the difference between keywords and search terms. We discuss the components of Quality Score and how you can improve them briefly.

We review audiences that can be used for search and display campaigns and how you can apply them.  We cover the difference between ‘observation’ and ‘targeting’.

We discuss the different dimensions that you can bid on within the account and where these are found.   This includes a discussion of the issues of bidding on multiple aspects inside the account and why automated bidding makes sense.  We review the main automated bidding strategies and when to use them.

Automated bidding strategies support doc: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2979071?hl=en-AU

In this video we walk through creating new ads within your account.  We look at the different types of ads you can create and what you should be considering when writing.  We also talk about best practice for writing new ads and include key tips you should use when writing ads.  We review some examples of well written ads and how they have used these key tips.

We discuss what sitelink extensions are and we go through the main extensions and what they do.  We show where to find them within the Google Ads interface.

We cover the concept of conversion tracking and the different ways you can track what happens on your website.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1StPdLHPy9dZJhtmWJZf_qtyC-pk0pJ1W

We cover other aspects of the interface that are important to be aware of such as Billing, Shared Library, Dashboard, Recommendations, Ad Preview.

We explain the concept of remarketing and why it is so powerful.  We discuss the different types or retargeting that you can run.

In this video we discuss how you can setup your Google Ads account for success with Research, Strategy & Planning, which we will cover in this section of the course.  We then jump into a more detailed discussion of the research process involved in setting up a new account.   This includes an overview of all the information we need to source and how to source it from clients, existing accounts and competitors.

Client brief document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qR076vY2kv6m79m_c5eIL6TN_uuyPUSqYZXqNGGPKkk/

We discuss the 2 levels of a great Google Ads account and why strategy is a crucial part of account building that is very commonly overlooked.  We drill down into the 3 components of strategy and provide an in depth discussion of what they are.

Planning is about using the research and strategy we have discussed and start putting this into practice. This is the phase where we start thinking about how to structure campaigns, what we need to do on an ongoing basis and making projections as to what is possible.

Copy the Gantt chart – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mfbVyFQ-2tJS9sLaGbXaeVGqPew_y25TB6jXKSv8H08/edit?usp=sharing

As part of the planning phase, its important to come up with projections.  These can be fairly rough, but should be based on existing data.  We show you how to generate projections for your campaigns. 

projections sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HUavYkysvpYARTn5CpkJMYuC3B1GyfTtO8jpWnh78eU/edit#gid=0

We start a brief overview of what we will cover in this section of the course.  We then jump into a detailed discussion about the different ways you can structure your campaigns.  There are multiple options that you should consider before building an account and we recommend which option to choose based on our experience and the future of campaign building.  We also recommend 3 basic campaign types that all accounts should have – brand, non-brand and competitor.

The aim of this video is to cover common issues that occur when setting up campaigns.  Our goal is to help you create better campaigns by covering these problems.  We look at the issues of ‘location options’, ‘Search & Display Campaigns’, ‘automatically applied suggestions’, ‘Content Exclusions’, ‘Observation vs Target Audiences’.

We recommend how you should use keywords within your AdGroups for the optimal structure to help implement your campaign strategy.   This focuses less on match types and more on theme relevance.

This video shows you ways you can generate new keywords and come up with new ideas for your AdGroups.

In this walkthrough we show you best practices for using Audiences & other dimensions within your Google Ads accounts. We touch on the different audience types of available to you.

We’ve already discussed best practice for ad copy in the previous section.  Here we dive deeper and discuss Ad Copy creation within context of the campaign build.  We also talk about testing concepts vs ad copy.  We show you the way we build out ad copy within spreadsheets.

Small Campaign Structure Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoJkAXlz_zqQk4UlPcdmOElXrBNngaOnZZISEE9RCEk/edit?usp=sharing

Large Campaign Structure Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WOuomKbvlQX3jO6iJGQfVoGa7GZQ8PQutkR_75f1Ojw/edit?usp=sharing

We discuss further the idea of labelling ads and show a walkthrough of how you view reports to see which labels perform well.

We cover the importance of tracking and why this should be one of the first things you setup. We recap the key things you should do when setting up tracking including the ‘conversions’ section in Google Ads and how to view your different conversion types within your campaign reports.

We list the topics we will cover in this section of the course.  We then jump in and discuss search terms.  We provide a walkthrough of how to optimize them inside Google Ads.

Quality Score is one of the most important concepts for Google Ads, we show you how to identify specific QS issues within Google Ads and techniques to improve QS.  We also show you how to use Google’s Natural Language Processing tools (NLP) to optimize your own QS.

Google NLP Demo: https://cloud.google.com/natural-language

We go into more depth here in our discussion of ad testing.  We review best practice and ad writing techniques and what we recommend doing regularly to optimize your ads.

We review the key segments inside the account that need to be optimized on a regular basis, and include a walkthrough of where to find them.

We discuss the different automated bidding strategies and key things to be aware of when using them and how to implement them cautiously.

Automated bidding signals – more info: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7065882

Automated bidding Strategies – more info: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2979071?hl=en-AU

Reporting is an integral part of regular client management. We talk about specifics about what to include in reports, how often to report and what systems to use.  We show you report examples as well.

Reviewing budgets should be conducted regularly.  We show you how to calculate this and make it easy to streamline for Google Ads using a calculated spreadsheet. 

Access the budgeting sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f9jGf80pwiiLYCLnTaNQuDudkWmJ_3iLQdsdq-auscc/edit?usp=sharing

After a quick intro to this section of the course we jump in and discuss experiments.  We discuss what they are and why you should use them.  We show you example case uses and we include a walkthrough for setting up experiments inside a real Google Ads account

The more you engage with customers the higher our conversion rates.  Previously we discussed different types of remarketing available, here we discuss different remarketing strategies you can utilize for Google Ads.  This includes a walkthrough for creating a number of these audiences.

We discuss functions you can use in ads like Dynamic keyword insertion, countdowns, IF Statements and more.

We discuss Dynamic Search Ads (Dynamic Search Campaigns).  These campaigns can be very powerful when used properly.  We talk about best practice in implementing these campaigns and provide a setup walkthrough.

Google Help Article: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2471185?hl=en-AU

Without a good landing page your whole campaign will suffer.  We show you the key things to consider when optimizing your landing page and we include a few examples.

We show you inside how you can use this power tool for Google Ads.  We show you the specific cases where it makes sense to use the tool and significantly speed up your account management time.

Download Google Ads Editor: https://ads.google.com/home/tools/ads-editor/

Your client calls you and says they cannot see their ad showing!  We discuss the steps you can take to diagnose and rectify.

Your campaign is running, but there are no Conversions (sales).  Don’t stress!  We provide a step by step process to assess the possible issues.

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What Students Are Saying

George Maser

This course provided an insight into Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Tag Manager and how it works with FB and LI platforms. Twitter was not mentioned or Pinterest. Tracking Landing pages and Buttons and ATC and Purchase was covered. Very Nice Course. I am going to take it again. Data Studio is new to me.

Chua Yi Cheng

I highly recommend this course for anyone who is managing a Google Ads account and wants to take his/her skills to the next level. I have been managing an adwords account for about half a year now and there are so many changes that I want to implement from the knowledge I learned from this course. This is a great course for advanced users no doubt about that.

Peter L.

Perfect match. I wanted to take my Google Ads and Analytics knowledge to another level, and this course is perfect for it. I’ve gone through it twice and will go through it at least one more time to really absorb it. I’m looking forward to working through Mark’s Conversion Tracking course next.

Oliver M.

This is the best ads course that I have seen. very good to understand…

Erdjan Remziev

He absolutely amazed me by the knowledge he has. I expected that course to be ” The usual HOW TO ” But its actually exceed my expectations by showing us really superior statistics A/B testings, labeling & etc… You will explore a lot of advanced secrets even if you’ve been handling ads for a long time, like me. Thank that’s really advanced course.

Malvika Jain

Excellent course. I was using Adwords in-depth 2013-15 and now wanted to get back to it. Seemed a herculean task but the pace and depth of this course was perfect at 2x speed. Looking fwd to trying many of the things mentioned here, and trying other courses by this instructor. The GA part was great.

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