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Google Ads Mastery: Search to Performance Max

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Google Ads Mastery: Search to Performance Max

Tanmoy Das
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2 weeks to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Set up and manage a Google Ads account using the auction model, account hierarchy, campaign creation, bidding strategies, and budgets.

  • Build search campaigns with high-intent keywords, match types, negatives, responsive ad formats, extensions, and Asset Studio creative.

  • Implement conversion tracking, attribution, and reporting, then build remarketing audiences, shared library assets, and automation rules.

  • Launch campaigns across Display, Video, Shopping, App, Demand Gen, and Performance Max, applying Gemini AI and experiments to optimize.

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August 2026

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8 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 8 modules in this course

This module introduces Google Ads as a platform, the auction and Ad Rank model, and the account hierarchy every advertiser works inside. Learners then walk through search campaign creation, billing, the Google Ads Editor, manager accounts, and the official resources and certifications that round out an advertiser's toolkit.

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9 videos2 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module teaches keyword strategy as the foundation of profitable search campaigns. Learners cover keyword research, match types, negative keywords, and search term analysis, then move into the responsive and dynamic search ad formats.

What's included

8 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module covers everything that surrounds the ad headline. Learners walk through the full extensions library, dynamic insertion features, and the Asset Studio for image and video creative production at scale.

What's included

22 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module teaches the bidding side of Google Ads. Learners cover manual bidding, the full smart bidding library, target-based bidding, specialized strategies for impression share and reach, and the tools that plan budgets at the account level.

What's included

16 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module teaches the Google Display Network as the upper-funnel demand engine. Learners cover audience-based and behavior-based targeting, custom audiences, placements, and end-to-end Standard Display Campaign creation.

What's included

12 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module covers the measurement layer that makes Google Ads accountable. Learners cover conversion tracking across web, app, phone, and offline sources, then move into value rules, custom variables, attribution, and the predefined reporting suite.

What's included

11 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module covers remarketing across campaign types and the shared library that supports the rest of the account. Learners build remarketing audiences, configure remarketing campaigns, and manage location, brand, and exclusion lists used everywhere.

What's included

16 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

This module covers the specialized campaign types that complete the Google Ads platform. Learners run video on YouTube, shopping with Merchant Center, app and Demand Gen campaigns, the planning suite, business data tools, and the AI surface including Gemini AI inside Google Ads.

What's included

27 videos1 reading1 assignment2 peer reviews1 discussion prompt

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