{"id":252,"date":"2008-10-13T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiremediablog.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-10-13T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:44:22","slug":"google-ad-planner-a-detailed-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiremediacode.com\/2008\/10\/13\/google-ad-planner-a-detailed-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Ad Planner – A Detailed Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to try the new Google Ad Planner<\/a> for some time now, since I have clients who utilize PPC advertising. Thankfully, I didn’t have to wait long after signing up for the beta before I was granted access to the service, so I have been able to put together this simple intro and basic how-to guide. If you have questions about this post or about Google Ad Planner or if you’d like for us to setup and maintain your media plan, I’d love to help you get started. Contact me today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google Ad Planner was designed as a free media planning tool as it relates to advertising. Large corporations and advertising agencies use media planning tools with detailed and sophisticated data to formulate plans for their clients. This new tool from Google ties in data from their search results, anonymous Google Analytics data and anonymous opt-in data from third party resources to give the same tools to small and medium businesses.<\/p>\n

The first thing you’ll notice when you log into the Ad Planner is that you have two options. You cna either start researching or you can create a media plan. Since we’ll cover the researching phase as part of creating a media plan, I went ahead and started to put together a plan for a fictitious company, Good Guy Realtors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So the first step in the process is to name your media plan:<\/p>\n

Click on ‘Create Media Plan’ and give it whatever name you’d like and click ‘Save’.<\/p>\n

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This will bring you back to the main screen. Next, you’ll perform some research, so go ahead and click on ‘Begin Research’.<\/p>\n

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You’ll be brought to a screen that several search options for you to choose from. In the sidebar of the page, you have filtering options including the ability to filter down to gender, age, education, household income and keywords. For instance, for Good Guy Realtors, I wanted to filter down to websites that had some element of real estate on it since I don’t want to waste my advertising dollars on anything outside of real estate.<\/p>\n

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Once I have the filters focused on the demographics that I want, I can then use the main pane of the screen to choose the websites that I want to focus on. In this section you’ll notice the following columns:<\/p>\n

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