About this product: Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this step-by-step guide shows you how to implement a successful Web analytics strategy. Web analytics expert Avinash Kaushik, in his thought-provoking style, debunks leading myths and leads you on a path to gaining actionable insights from your analytics efforts. Discover how to move beyond clickstream analysis, why qualitative data should be your focus, and more insights and techniques that will help you develop a customer-centric mindset without sacrificing your company’s bottom line.
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About this product: How much money are you losing because of poor landing page design? In this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn all the skills necessary to dramatically improve your bottom line, including identifying mission critical parts of your website and their true economic value, defining important visitor classes and key conversion tasks, gaining insight on customer decision-making, uncovering problems with your page and deciding which elements to test, developing an action plan, and avoiding common pitfalls. Includes a companion website and a detailed review of the Google Website Optimizer tool.
About this product: Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today's Web. This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned "word of mouth" becomes hypergrowth. Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how: Flickr, a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value Google made money with a model based on free search, and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage of Social network effects can support a business-ever wonder how FaceBook grew so quickly? Businesses like Amazon tap into the Web as a source of indirect revenue, using creative new approaches to monetize the investments they've made in the Web Written by Amy Shuen, an authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide explains how to transform yourbusiness by looking at specific practices for integrating Web 2.0 with what you do. If you're executing business strategy and want to know how the Web is changing business, this book is for you.
About this product: An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture.
A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the modern world into existence. Today a similar revolution is under way. Companies are dismantling their private computer systems and tapping into rich services delivered over the Internet. This time it's computing that's turning into a utility. The shift is already remaking the computer industry, bringing new competitors like Google to the fore and threatening traditional stalwarts like Microsoft and Dell. But the effects will reach much further. Cheap computing will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. In this lucid and compelling book, Nicholas Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing—and what it means for all of us.
Never before in the history of advertising has it been possible to spend five bucks, write a couple of ads and get instant access to more than 100 million people in 10 minutes. But that's exactly what Google AdWords does. It's an awesome concept-but you can lose a bundle if you don't know how it works.
Learn how to:
Build an AdWords campaign from scratch
Identify keywords that entice people to click on your ads
Get the lowest bid prices on your keywords
Defeat click fraud and other scams
Use search engine optimization techniques
Turn clicks into customers
Plus get FREE e-mail updates on Google's ever-changing system.
About this product: Written in a clear, non-technical, style by a leading expert in SEO (search engine optimization), GTTTOG explains techniques and strategies proven to return higher search engine rankings and sales. It addresses all aspects of search engine marketing and includes an assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on Internet search strategies.
AdWords lets every business-from eBay PowerSellers to Fortune 500 companies-create targeted, cost-efficient advertising campaigns on the Web, and accounts for the bulk of Google's $6 billion in annual revenues
This all-new guide helps advertisers get a handle on AdWords complexities and nuances, adopt AdWords best practices, and turn clicks into ka-ching!
Topics covered include conducting quick and cheap market research, crafting a message that cuts through the clutter, choosing AdWords settings, bidding on keywords, setting a maximum daily spend, improving the Web page that an ad points to, testing strategies, tracking results, and using Web analytics tools
Includes an exclusive offer from Google-AdWords credits equivalent to the price of the book-plus a companion Web site with up-to-the-minute AdWords tips and tricks, narrated video walkthroughs, and free trials of the author's software
About this product: "This book is an excellent learning tool. Like any other tool, you get out of it exactly what you put in. My advice is to spend as much time with each section as YOU need. If you do that, you will walk away with every bit of the knowledge an industry thought leader can provide."--Kevin M. Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch
"Search engine optimization is, without question, one of the highest ROI activities a business can undertake. It’s also one of the most misunderstood. Fortunately, we’ve got people like Kris to act as our tour guide and translator. A solid strategy and attention to detail are essential to a successful SEO campaign and that’s exactly what Kris delivers."--Rand Fishkin, Chief Blogger and CEO, SEOmoz
"Kristopher Jones is one of a small number of entrepreneurial executives whose confidence, innovation, and creativity has been instrumental in developing and framing search engine, social media optimization, and Internet marketing. Kristopher is a modern day blend of John Wayne, Thomas Edison, and Andy Warhol. Kristopher Jones and his Pepperjam team tirelessly implement innovative search engine optimization, pay-per-click, affiliate marketing, and social media optimization solutions for a broad base of corporate customers. Kristopher Jones will continue to have a profound effect on Internet marketing and social networking." --Jack Kiefer, President & CEO, BabyAge.com
"Kris envisioned search engine optimization as an integral element of online marketing before the phrase was even coined. This book reveals his secrets for success in getting competitive words and phrases highly ranked on the major search engines. Since 2000, Kris and his team at Pepperjam have implemented successful SEO strategies for igourmet.com, helping grow our revenues and shape our product mix. I highly recommend this book as either an easy-to-follow road map for novices or a valuable reference for experts."--Spencer Chesman, President & CEO, igourmet.com
"Search engine optimization (SEO) is an integral part of an effective online marketing strategy. With this book Kris offers a step-by-step guide to get your Web site ranked by the major search-engines. At 1-800-PetMeds we have worked with Kris and his team at Pepperjam for the last three years to implement a range of online marketing strategies that have worked very effectively. I highly recommend you read this book and implement the strategies contained within." --Alex Irvin, Online Marketing Director, 1-800-PetMeds.com
"Search engine optimization has emerged as the flagship service in the growing Internet marketing landscape, and Kristopher Jones is a leader in explaining the intricate details and subtle balances that make it all work." --Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc.
"Kris Jones is a leading expert in marketing both affiliate-based and client sites. His expertise comes from a wide perspective you can’t get from most search engine marketers. When I listened to Kris speak at the Elite Retreat conference, I felt like I was a conference attendee rather than a fellow speaker."--Aaron Wall, SEO Expert and Blogger, SEObook.com
Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 140 key search engine optimization techniques, including:
Analyzing your competition
Researching and analyzing keywords
Developing your link building skills
Setting up blogs and communities
Using Google Analytics
Networking with Facebook and MySpace
Boosting traffic with Digg and StumbleUpon
Setting up pay-per-click campaigns
Discovering ways to monetize Web traffic
Installing valuable SEO plug-ins
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"Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Considerably easier to use than other 3D software, Google SketchUp has found a niche in architecture, landscaping, real estate development, furniture building, and other design professions
The fun and friendly approach assumes no previous 3D modeling experience and explains the basic concepts involved in 3D modeling
Shows readers how to build a 3D model, print it, share it, export it to another professional design package, export it to Google Earth, and create a 3D animated tour
Helps readers harness the power of Google SketchUp so that they can populate Google Earth with 3D buildings, monuments, and other sculptures
About this product: Let Web metrics expert Brian Clifton help you maximize your website's potential. In this book you'll discover the information you need to get a true picture of your site's impact and stay competitive using Google Analytics. Featuring implementation techniques not documented elsewhere, this informative guide teaches you how to turn data into actionable information and optimize the user experience of your website for better conversions. You'll learn to:
Measure your web traffic, its sources and visitor engagements and understand its impact on ROI
Configure your data collection parameters to track all online marketing channels, Flash events, banners, and more
Follow best practices for tracking offline activities and learn how to extract, analyze, and integrate the collected data
Optimize checkout systems, pay-per-click campaigns (including AdWords), SEO, and email marketing efforts
Discover the benefits of ad version testing and the insight multivariate testing can bring
With a better understanding of your website visitors, you will be able to tailor page content and marketing budgets with laserlike precision for a better return on investment, and ultimately, a better bottom line.
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