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Title: Grow Your Business with Google AdWords
Author:  Jon Smith
Publisher:  McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071629599
Pages:  144, Paperback
Genre:  Computers/Business

Reviewed by:  Nicole Sorkin, Pacific Book Review


Review

Google AdWords is a wonderful way to drive a stack of targeted traffic to your website...If you understand what you are doing!  However, if you're new to AdWords, or get some aspects incorrect, it can quickly start costing you a lot of money and your online business as well. Jon Smith author of Grow your Business with Google AdWords explains all of the hidden secrets and tips you need to know about the Google AdWords Program and how to make it work effectively for you and your business.

Jon Smith has done an outstanding job of writing a practical book for technically inclined people about how to use Google AdWords to make money.  Smith begins by explaining how to make money from content-base site, how to build a site that will get traffic, he will help define your strategy and how to write ads that will get the customers attention and how to make the most of using Google AdWords to your advantage. The author explains what Google Adwords API web services are and how to write a code that interacts with them.           

This book is extremely well written and easy to understand. It is filled with specific examples and gives you step by step instructions on how to implement the advice being given.  There are plenty of tools and sources that will help you in making your online (or offline business for that matter) more profitable. 

Follow the steps given in this book and you will greatly increase your internet traffic.  There is some great solid lessons about the value of testing, testing and then testing some more.  Smith makes it easy to follow and implement.  However he does make the observation that most people are rather lazy and will not make the effort to really do the work necessary.  He writes in his book that Internet marketing is a real business and if you treat it like a business, it can be highly profitable.  However, treat it casually and it will never fulfill your dreams.

This book is worth reading, even if you never plan to run an Internet business.  There are a couple of groups that probably hope that you don't read this book, Google - Because you will slash the cost of your Google Ads and your competitors and after reading Grow Your Business with Google AdWords you will be a much sharper competitor.