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Kurukshetra University Syllabus BookAuthority Top Beginners Book

Google AdWords For Digital Marketing Ninjas

You've been meaning to run Google Ads. Maybe you started, got confused, and quietly closed the tab. This book was written for exactly that moment. A complete, step-by-step walkthrough — from zero to your first live, optimised campaign. No jargon. No assumed knowledge. No skipped steps.

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Google AdWords For Digital Marketing Ninjas
Recommended — Kurukshetra University Official digital marketing curriculum reading.
BookAuthority — Top Google Ads Book for Beginners Ranked among the best in its category globally.
25,000+ copies sold No publisher. No PR. Pure word-of-mouth from people who ran their first campaigns using this book.

Most Beginners Don't Fail at Google Ads. They Fail at Getting Started.

The interface is overwhelming. The settings have no clear explanation. The jargon piles up. And when something doesn't work, there's no one to tell you why.

Most guides either assume you already know the basics, or they're so surface-level they leave you more confused than when you started.

This book does neither. Written the way I wish someone had explained it to me — start to finish, with screenshots, with real reasoning, with nothing skipped.

01
Genuine Step-by-Step — Not a Summary

Every chapter follows on from the last. By the end, you've built an actual campaign — not just read about one.

02
Screenshots at Every Turn

You never have to guess what you're looking at. The interface is explained visually, the way it actually looks when you're in it.

03
The Why Behind Every What

For each feature, I explain not just what it does — but why it matters and when to use it.

04
Written by a Practitioner, Not a Theorist

Every example, every tip, every warning comes from real campaigns I managed — not from reading documentation.

05
Concise by Design

126 pages. You'll finish it in a weekend. Then you'll go run your first campaign — because you'll know exactly what to do.

11 Chapters.
One Complete Campaign.

Every chapter builds on the last. By Chapter 11, you have a live, optimised campaign — and you understand every part of it.

01
Introduction to Google Ads

What Google Ads actually is, why it works for most businesses, and — critically — when it doesn't. This chapter saves you money before you've spent a single rupee.

Intent vs Interruption When NOT to Use Ads
02
How the Ad Auction Works

Google doesn't just show the highest bidder. It's a quality-weighted auction. This chapter explains the mechanics so you stop overpaying and start outscoring competitors with bigger budgets.

Ad Rank Formula Actual Cost Per Click
03
Digging Into Ads Structure

Accounts, campaigns, ad groups — the three-layer structure beginners always get wrong. Understand this once and every future campaign decision becomes ten times easier.

Campaign Settings Location & Scheduling Ad Rotation
04
Ad Groups, Keywords & Ads

The anatomy of an ad group, how to structure keywords inside it, and why a poorly organised ad group is the #1 reason campaigns underperform before a single rupee is spent.

Ad Group Structure First Page Bid
05
Keywords & the Keyword Planner

How to find the keywords your buyers are actually using — not the ones you assume they use. A complete walkthrough of the Keyword Planner with average position explained.

Search Volume Average Position Competition Level
06
Keyword Match Types

Exact, Phrase, Broad, Modified Broad — and when each is the right or the wrong choice. This one decision controls who sees your ads. Most beginners set it once and never revisit it.

Exact Match Phrase Match Broad Match
07
Negative Keywords

The most powerful cost-saving tool in Google Ads that beginners almost always ignore. How to add them at campaign and ad group level — with examples that make the logic click immediately.

Account-Level Negatives Ad Group Negatives
08
Final Campaign Setup

Adding multiple ad groups, setting up billing, and doing a final structural review before anything goes live. The checklist that stops the most common launch mistakes.

Billing Setup Campaign Structure Review
09
Conversion Tracking

Running a campaign without conversion tracking is like driving with no dashboard. Setup from scratch — what a conversion is, how to generate the tracking code, and how to embed it correctly.

Tracking Code Website Integration
10
Measuring Performance

What to actually look at once the campaign is live — at campaign, ad, and keyword level. Segments and dimensions explained so your data tells you something useful, not just numbers.

Campaign Metrics Keyword Performance Segments
11
Campaign Optimisation

The full optimisation playbook: search query reports, ad testing, mobile bid adjustments, location targeting, IP exclusions, ad scheduling, and the complete checklist for when performance dips.

Search Query Report Ad Testing Bid Adjustments

If You've Never Run an Ad, This Was Written for You.

  • First-Timers with No Prior Ads Knowledge

    You've heard about Google Ads, you know your business needs it, and you have no idea where to start. Start here. Chapter 1. Page 1.

  • Small Business Owners Running Their Own Marketing

    You don't have an agency budget or a full marketing team. You need to understand this well enough to do it yourself — or to know when you're being misled by someone else doing it for you.

  • Marketing Students & Freshers

    Now part of the Kurukshetra University curriculum. If you're entering digital marketing and need a practical foundation that goes beyond textbook theory — this fills that gap.

  • Experienced Professionals Refreshing Their Basics

    You've been doing this a while. Some of what you learned early was never explained properly. This book is also for you — to rebuild the foundation cleanly.

One Honest Thing Before You Buy.

This book was written in 2017.

Google Ads has changed since then — some interface elements look different, some features have evolved. The platforms move.

What hasn't changed: the logic. How the auction works. Why match types matter. How to read a search query report. How to build campaign structure that doesn't collapse when you scale. The fundamentals remain accurate because they're based on how the system thinks — not just what the buttons look like.

A second edition is coming. When it does, it will include the psychology layer I've developed over the last decade. For now, this is the book that built the foundation for 25,000 people who went on to run real campaigns.

"I wrote it the way I wish someone had written it for me when I was starting out — with nothing assumed and nothing skipped. If you get stuck on anything, I genuinely mean the email address in the book. Reach out."

— Saurabh Choudhary, The Psychomarketer

A Book That Earned Its Place.

Academic Recognition
Kurukshetra University Curriculum

Officially recommended reading in the Kurukshetra University digital marketing programme. One of the rare practitioner-written books to enter an Indian university syllabus — because it bridges what textbooks explain and what campaigns actually demand.

Industry Recognition
BookAuthority — Top Beginners Google Ads Book

Recognised by BookAuthority as one of the top Google Ads books for beginners. Ranked on merit — not on publisher influence. The criteria is simple: does this book actually help someone run their first campaign? This one does.

Reader Reach
25,000+ Copies — No Publisher, No PR

Every copy sold because someone who read it told someone who hadn't. No publisher. No paid placement. No PR campaign. Twenty-five thousand practitioners who ran their first campaign and came back to say it worked.

What 25,000 Readers Said.

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"The only AdWords book that made me realise I'd been optimising the wrong thing. Changed how I think about every campaign."

B2B Marketing Lead, Mumbai
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"I kept recognising things I'd observed but could never articulate. That's the whole value."

Founder, E-commerce Brand, Bangalore
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"Required reading for anyone managing paid search. The psychology chapter alone is worth ten times the price."

Performance Marketing Consultant, Delhi
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"No basic tutorials. Just what actually works and why."

Head of Growth, SaaS Company, Pune
"I started observing buyer behaviour at 11, standing behind the counter of my father's optical shop in Gurgaon. I've been studying why they choose ever since."
  • India's first marketing psychology specialist
  • 15+ years, 60+ brands across D2C, SaaS, and e-commerce
  • Scaled TruNativ from ₹59K to ₹730K/month in revenue
  • Author of Psycho Marketing — published 2018
  • International keynote speaker — Vietnam, 2018
  • Founder, The Buyer's Mind™
  • Trained 5,000+ entrepreneurs and marketing professionals

15 Years Running Campaigns. One Book to Teach It Right.

I discovered the internet in 1998. By 2003, I was freelancing for US clients when most of India was still on dial-up. I have always been a practitioner first — I learn by building things, running things, and watching what actually happens.

I wrote this book after years of managing Google Ads accounts and watching the same beginner mistakes repeat across every industry. Not because people were careless — but because nobody had explained the fundamentals in a way that was honest, complete, and simple enough to follow from day one.

This book is that explanation. Written from four years of real campaign management. The platform has evolved since then — the second edition is coming. But the thinking in this book has held up, because it's built on how the system behaves, not just on what the interface looks like.

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A complete, step-by-step guide to Google Ads — from zero knowledge to a live, optimised campaign. 126 pages. No skipped steps. No assumed knowledge.

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