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Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Course

Optimizing visibility in search engine results is an essential part of Digital Marketing. Reinforcing findability through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is an effective tactic to achieve your marketing objectives. In this course, you learn how to create, execute, and optimize an effective ad campaign using AdWords by Google.

Optimizing visibility in search engine results is an essential part of Digital Marketing. Reinforcing findability through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is an effective tactic to achieve your marketing objectives. In this course, you learn how to create, execute, and optimize an effective ad campaign using AdWords by Google.

4 weeks

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated April 11, 2023

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Introduction to SEM

Learn the basics of Search Engine Marketing and how Google Ads campaigns are organized.

Lesson 2

Keywords

You'll learn approaches and tools to developing your keyword lists and understand the power of long tail keywords and how search queries and keywords are

Lesson 3

Ads

You will learn about the different elements of effective text ads, ad extensions, and best practices and the most common mistakes when writing text ads.

Lesson 4

Ad Rank and Maximum CPC bid

Learn how bidding works, how Google decides which ads to place, when, and how to calculate the maximum you should bid per click.

Lesson 5

Metrics and Optimization

In this lesson, we will discuss the KPIs that you should monitor and optimize when running a Google Ads campaign.

Lesson 6 • Project

Evaluate a Google Ads Campaign

Evaluate Google Campaigns and create your own keyword lists in this project.

Taught By The Best

Photo of Daniel Kob

Daniel Kob

Instructor

Dan is a digital media entrepreneur, visual storyteller, and Stanford MBA. He has worked in different roles in media, tech, and marketing in Europe and the US.

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Liana Gross Furini

Performance Marketing Manager

Liana is a Digital Marketing Specialist, with 10+ years of experience. She is well versed in all types of paid media, and more recently have been focusing her career on paid social and paid search. Liana holds a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and a Master's Degree in Social Communications.

Taught By The Best

Photo of Daniel Kob

Daniel Kob

Instructor

Dan is a digital media entrepreneur, visual storyteller, and Stanford MBA. He has worked in different roles in media, tech, and marketing in Europe and the US.

Photo of Liana Gross Furini

Liana Gross Furini

Performance Marketing Manager

Liana is a Digital Marketing Specialist, with 10+ years of experience. She is well versed in all types of paid media, and more recently have been focusing her career on paid social and paid search. Liana holds a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and a Master's Degree in Social Communications.

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM)