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Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising Fundamentals

Study the fundamentals of pay-per-click advertising, including campaign setup, keyword targeting, bidding strategies, ad creation and performance tracking. This e-learning material builds the skills required to create effective PPC campaigns that drive traffic, generate enquiries and support clear business objectives.

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Level: Beginner
Purpose

This level introduces how paid search works, what you are bidding on and why, and how a first campaign is built so that the budget goes towards genuine intent.

Outcome

You finish able to build a small, tidy campaign from scratch, keep irrelevant traffic out with negative keywords, and judge from the reports whether the spend produced anything worthwhile.

What You'll Learn

  • You study account and campaign structure, keyword match types, bidding basics, writing ads that match the search, negative keywords, and reading the reports that show where money actually went
Credits 287 CREDITS
Level: Intermediate
Purpose

This level builds day-to-day management skill, covering the routine that keeps an account improving instead of quietly drifting once it has been set up.

Outcome

You are able to manage an account to a routine, improve quality and relevance rather than simply raising bids, and show month on month whether efficiency is moving in the right direction.

What You'll Learn

  • You work through search term analysis, bid and budget adjustment, ad testing, landing page relevance, quality signals, conversion tracking and building a weekly optimisation routine that fits the time available
Credits 399 CREDITS
Level: Advanced
Purpose

This level develops advanced paid search ability, covering automated bidding, competitive auctions and the analysis needed to decide where additional budget belongs.

Outcome

You can run a large account with automation working in your favour, decide where the next unit of budget should go, and predict with reasonable confidence what a structural change will do.

What You'll Learn

  • You study automated bidding strategies and when to trust them, account structure for scale, auction insights, incrementality, budget allocation across campaigns, and forecasting the effect of a change before making it
Credits 785 CREDITS
Level: Expert
Purpose

This level is written for readers accountable for paid search performance and budget, where the task is to plan, justify and hold a position under commercial pressure.

Outcome

You are able to build a paid search plan with a defensible forecast, make the profitability case rather than the traffic case, and keep measurement honest as tracking becomes more restricted.

What You'll Learn

  • You cover budget modelling and forecasting, profitability and margin thinking, measurement frameworks and their limits, privacy-driven tracking change, supplier and platform negotiation, and reporting for senior stakeholders
Credits 1,028 CREDITS