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Paid search is much more than bid management and click-throughs, it's about devising a strategy that compliments your overall online marketing program and providing ROI based on performance which has been quantified at the keyword level.  Below are 25 paid search resources ranging from the basics, to best practices, to advanced strategies to measurement.

  • Marketing Sherpa: Landing Page Handbook
  • Clickz: Affiliate PPC Brand Bidding: Right For You?
  • Clickz: PPC Search: Create, Influence, Capture, and Harvest Demand
  • Ryan Gibson: Starting from Scratch: A Paid Search Primer
  • Wilson Web: Paid Search Strategies for High Cost, Slow Conversion Products
  • e-Consultancy: Five reasons why you need a paid search strategy
  • Clear Saleing: 6 Advanced Paid Search Strategies used by the Internet Retailer top 500
  • Search Engine Guide: Important Steps In 2008 Paid Search Planning
  • Search Engine Guide: Five Common Paid Search Mistakes That Can Sink Your Campaign
  • John Ellis: Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Pay-Per-Click Advertisers
  • 10e20: Paid Search For Big Sites
  • My Agent of Value: Combining Organic and Paid Search Strategies
  • e-Consultancy: Paid Search Marketing (PPC) - Best Practice Guide
  • Chief Marketer: Your Brand and Paid Search: What You Need to Know
  • SEOMoz: 17 Most Common PPC Mistakes Web Marketers Make
  • SEOMoz: Create Your Own "Bullet Train" to PPC Optimization
  • High Rankings: 5 Keyword Strategies for B2B PPC Campaigns
  • Search Engine Land: Eight Essentials For Crafting Killer Paid Search Ad Copy
  • Search Engine Land: The Anatomy Of Compelling Search Ad Copy
  • Marketing Pilgrim: 9 Cost-Effective PPC Branding Strategies
  • Vertical Leap UK: Load-time can now influence your Adwords quality score
  • SE Round Table: Paid Search Fundamentals
  • PPC Hero: Selling PPC Services: How to Present PPC to C-Level Executives
  • Shoe Money: Google Adwords Arrow Trick To Increase Click Through Rates
  • James Zolman: NUDE: AdWords Keyword Data Exposed With Google Analytics!

  • Comments (5)

    This is a great cumulative list. Gotta love when all resources are compiled into one bookmarkable page!

    You forgot to mention Googlelady's free e-book about adwords tips:

    http://www.googlelady.com/614/adwords-quality-guide-free-ebook/

    Awesome list. I've been running a home business for quite some time and have always found PPC to be a tough nut to crack. While my attempts are getting better, I still haven't found the sweet spot yet, so I am always looking for more info to stuff my brain with. Thanks for the list.

    Hi, this is a good collection, nice.
    I think paid search effect a lot initial.

    Ok Good list... I usually visit clikz and e-consultancy SEM strategies. It's 25 or 28??? URL says 28, but the actual list is 25. am i missing something?

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