Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Step 1: Setting up your AdWords account

Go to the Google AdWords homepage (http://adwords.google.com) select and click on the "Click to Begin" button to get started.


The next screen will give you an option between two types of accounts Starter and Standard. Since we're going to be going deep inside AdWords, there's no need to go for a Starter account select "Standard" and then click on "Continue".


On the next screen, you choose the languages you want to target. So if you were in Germany and wanted to target German-speaking Google users, you would select German. Google also let's you target specific countries, specific regions and cities or even a specified geographic location (such as a 20-mile radius around a certain street address, for example).


I selected the 'target by country' option, so in the next screen I was asked to enter the countries I wanted to market to in this case, since we are selling physical products we will restrict our target market to US and Canada (a good thing, because this where the heaviest demand for home theater system resides as well).


I'd recommend sticking with "country-level" targeting for now the other two options are a bit more advanced, and I personally never use them. Let's move to the next step writing your ad.
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