A Simple Guide to PPC
By: JackJGiovanni Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 Time: 1:54 PM
Even well established websites find that the pay per click system of getting traffic to their site has the lowest overall costs. Many people now use this as their advertising method of choice because it is so effective. If you are one of the many that have heard about pay per click but don't really understand it then this article might be ale to help.
The idea behind this is simple; you can advertise your site on another (possibly larger) website that receives a large amount of traffic. Very simply, you will pay the site (that the traffic comes from) a small amount from your account but only providing the visitor stays more than 10 seconds. The sites that provide you with hosting when it comes to this sort of advertisement are usually big with a large amount of traffic and will have some relationship to the product or services that you are trying to put across. For many people the benefit of only paying when the service is used i.e. when someone actually visits your site cannot be underestimated.
Unlike regular advertising which you pay for whether someone takes any notice or not, this way you pay for what gets used. Some people are worried about competitors clicking to run up their bill or lose them from the screen completely but in practice this rarely happens. Pay per click is one of the most targeted types of marketing available which means it is extremely cost effective for businesses that often lose a great deal advertising to those with no interest in their product. People who see your ad are already interested in the product or service you are promoting.
By now most people have experienced the Google Adwords pay per click system which has grown dramatically in recent years. Your small ad will show up when people search on Google for a phrase or term that you designate. The searches that are then made on that term will bring up natural results and paid examples which may show at the side or at the top of the page.
It is this immediate effect that appeals to many advocates of pay per click marketing. Many companies use this technique to gauge how good their advertising copy will be before they use it in more expensive areas. For speed, efficiency and cost, pay per click search marketing is superior to just about every other method of advertising and that is why companies continue to use it.
Unlike search engine optimization, which can fluctuate according to the search engine's whims, pay per click marketing is the only guaranteed way to reach a top listing for any given word. Most most businesses and marketers will use PPC as a dirt-cheap way to do keyword research for the longer term SEO campaigns.
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