Jerry Work asked:


When preparing to begin a pay per click marketing campaign, it really helps to go into the situation with an idea of what the numbers look like. By “the numbers”, I mean what kind of return on your investment you can expect assuming different bid levels and different conversion rates. It’s really all just conjecture because you don’t know what your click-through rate will be, what your bids will have to be to generate adequate traffic, or what your conversion rate will be. But you don’t want to go into the situation blind. So the following technique is a way for you to at least apply some logic to the situation, rather than just guessing.

ROAS (”Return on Ad Spend”) is defined as the total dollars generated by the advertising divided by the cost of the advertising. The following discussion and data illustrate an ROAS-based approach to setting a baseline bid level for your campaign. Every ad group and possibly every keyword will have its own bid once you actually set the ad groups up. But this type of analysis will give you an idea of what your average click price needs to be in order to generate a positive return on investment, assuming various conversion rates.

Below are two examples of the kind of analysis we often do when beginning a new campaign to give the client and ourselves an idea of what he might expect his return on ad spend to be. It also helps us establish a benchmark average bid.

The first thing you’re going to need is some data to plug into your spreadsheet. So log into your Google, Yahoo!, or MSN account and create a new campaign or ad group. When you get to the keywords section, add a large group of keywords related to your industry. You are not going to actually use this campaign; you just want to get an idea of how much traffic there is for the keywords and how much you might have to pay for clicks. Going through the process of setting up a campaign lets you generate some data to work with.

The data for the examples below was generated in the Yahoo! Search Marketing interface. Yahoo! is convenient for this kind of analysis because of its sliding scale bid tool that gives immediate feedback about expected traffic and costs at different bid levels by just moving the slider around. We used a single broad set of related keywords to generate the necessary data. In reality, your keywords will be divided up into logical groupings, or ad groups, but for analytical purposes a single ad group was sufficient.

For our first analysis, we are going to assume a bid level of $.75, which Yahoo! estimated would result in 21,993 monthly clicks at a cost per click of $.50. For illustration purposes (and to make the math easier), we assume average revenue per sale of $100.

We know that our total cost is going to be $10,997 (21,993 clicks X $.50), so we can use this information to estimate what our total sales, and thus return on ad spend, will be at different conversion rates:

Bid: $.75

Est. Monthly Clicks: 21,993

Avg. Cost per Click: $.50

Total Cost: $10,997

Avg. Revenue per Sale: $100.00

Performance per Conversion Rate

Conversion Rate: 0.25%

Estimated Sales: 55

Revenue: $5,498.25

Return on Ad Spend: 50%

Conversion Rate: 0.50%

Estimated Sales: 110

Revenue: $10,996.50

Return on Ad Spend: 100%

Conversion Rate: 1.0%

Estimated Sales: 219.9

Revenue: $21,993.00

Return on Ad Spend: 200%

Conversion Rate: 2.0%

Estimated Sales: 439.9

Revenue: $43,986.00

Return on Ad Spend: 400%

Conversion Rate: 3.0%

Estimated Sales: 659.8

Revenue: $65,979.00

Return on Ad Spend: 600%

As you can see, if we convert at 0.25% (1 in every 400), we are going to generate a return on ad spend of 50%, meaning we are bringing in fifty cents for every dollar we spend. That is not very good. We probably need to convert at a rate between 1% and 2% to show a reasonable return on our investment.

Now we might want to see what the numbers look like if we lower our bid. If we bring our bid down to $.50, Yahoo! estimates our estimated monthly clicks to be 14,948 at a cost per click of $.38. So now the return on ad spend analysis looks like this:

Bid: $.50

Est. Monthly Clicks: 14,948

Avg. Cost per Click: $.38

Total Cost: $5,680

Avg. Revenue per Sale: $100.00

Performance per Conversion Rate

Conversion Rate: 0.25%

Estimated Sales: 37.4

Revenue: $3,737.00

Return on Ad Spend: 66%

Conversion Rate: 0.50%

Estimated Sales: 74.7

Revenue: $7,474.00

Return on Ad Spend: 132%

Conversion Rate: 1.0%

Estimated Sales: 149.5

Revenue: $14,948.00

Return on Ad Spend: 263%

Conversion Rate: 2.0%

Estimated Sales: 299.0

Revenue: $29,896.00

Return on Ad Spend: 526%

Conversion Rate: 3.0%

Estimated Sales: 448.4

Revenue: $44,844.00

Return on Ad Spend: 789%

We can generate a higher return on ad spend at the lower bid. However, we will generate less total revenue, and may convert at a lower rate. In addition, we have found that the accuracy of Yahoo!’s estimated traffic lessens as bids decline. But if you are on a very limited budget in an industry with plenty of keyword inventory, as in our example, then you can probably get away with bidding low and still generating a lot of clicks.

You could take the analysis a step further and look at it in terms of profit, rather than revenue. For instance, if the above estimated revenue per sale of $100 translated into $50 profit per sale, you could estimate your return on investment at different conversion rates by dividing the return on ad spend in half. If you substitute profit per sale for revenue per sale in the above analyses, then you will generate your ROI rather than ROAS.

One caveat about setting your initial bid this way: due to the quality scores that both Yahoo! and Google apply to keywords and ads, it may be necessary to begin the campaign at a considerably higher bid than your research indicates in order to generate a higher click-through ratio, which plays a part in determining the quality score. Once the ads are generating clicks, you can back off the bids more in-line with your desired ROI.

Another caveat is that oftentimes a search engine’s estimated traffic at different bid levels is not very accurate. It’s hard to fault the search engines for this, when there are so many variables that can affect how much traffic a campaign will generate. So your actual performance and required bids will probably vary quite a bit from what the chart shows. But the above described method for setting an initial bid at least gives you a logical starting point. Once the campaign is running, you can make adjustments as necessary.

The question of how much to bid may also be determined by your budget for the campaign. At higher bids, you are going to burn through your budget quicker. If there is so much keyword inventory related to your business that you are able to use up your entire budget almost regardless of what you bid, then it might make sense to bid lower…if ROAS is your main consideration.

If there is a branding component to your online marketing, then you may want to bid higher for higher positioning on the page. Another consideration is that not all sales are made immediately. If you position yourself as the leader in your category (high on the page), you generate more immediate traffic and more potential future business from prospects who visit your page but don’t immediately do business with you. This branding component is not reflected in the kind of analysis we displayed above.

An analysis like this can easily be prepared using a spreadsheet, and we highly advise you to do something similar to get a feel for your own numbers.



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Assassin Marketing asked:


It would be unwise to jump into Pay-Per-Click marketing without having a set of relevant keywords. Pay-Per-Click marketing is all about targeting specific keywords. Most prospects search for your products or services by typing in relevant “key words” into the search engine keyword toolbar in order to find the keyword search results they are looking for. The search engines show natural and Pay-Per-Click results after analyzing the relevance of those keywords.

A website that wants to rank high on the Pay-Per-Click search results, must have their most relevant keywords optimized they begin their Pay-Per-Click program. These sets of keywords are generated using several different methods and a variety of keyword tools such as the Google Keyword Tool.

This keyword list is generally segregated into groups of related keywords and keyword phrases which best match the core content of the website’s landing page for which these Pay-Per-Click keyword groups direct them to. This landing page and its content should also be optimized with relevant keywords from your list in order to receive a higher relevant page rank. Also, the more relevant your Pay-Per-Click ad is, the higher its results and the lower your costs are.

Your list of keywords will be used extensively within your website and in all of your online marketing. Not only will you use this keyword list for your landing pages and its content, you will also use it to create your Pay-Per-Click banner ads; therefore, one of the worst things you can do is choose a wrong or unrelated set of keywords because this will lower the rank of your Pay-Per-Click ad while costing you more money, decrease the flow of traffic to your website, and have a severe negative effect on the conversion rate.

Due to the overall importance of selecting relevant keywords, Pay-Per-Click keyword selection is probably the most important task you will ever encounter in your online marketing efforts and this should not be left to someone who is NOT a professional. You must understand that if your keyword lists are not specifically designed to meet your exact marketing needs, you will never achieve the results that you desire and deserve with your hard-earned marketing dollars.

You must first set up you Pay-Per-Click account. Since Google Adwords is the most common PPC ad agency, let’s assume that’s where you’ll start. First set up a Google Adwords account. Google will pretty much walk you through this, but a couple of key points. First, uncheck the content network button first (we’ll discuss this a little later) and second, make sure you set up the optimizer for testing your ads against each other.

After you have set up your Google Adwords account, it’s time to create your first ad group and ad. In order for you to get the best “quality score” you should remember two words, “relevancy” and “action”. In other words, make sure you have your keywords grouped into specific ad groups based on their likeness and create your ad specifically for this one group. This will increase your groups “relevancy”. Secondly, when creating your ad, make sure you ask for a specific “action”, such as directing them to a specific landing page which is relevant to that specific group of keyword group.

There are also “negative keywords” that you should specifically designate within your Pay-Per-Click campaign. These are words that would cause a prospect to click through to your website, but that has no relevancy to your particular type of business. For example, you may think that the keyword “night stand” would be of particular interest to a furniture store, but in actuality a person was actually looking for a “one night stand”. Obviously, a different profession!!

With more and more businesses using Pay-Per-Click marketing and getting a good return on their investment, it’s becoming more difficult to maintain market share due to the increased competition and in turn a higher cost-per-conversion for you. But one way we have adapted is by using a Geo-targeted Pay-Per-Click campaign.

A Geo-targeted Pay-Per-Click campaign uses your keywords but targets a specific geographical area, such as Dallas or Texas. This is a great way for local businesses to can’t or don’t need to serve a national audience. Geo-targeted Pay-Per-Click ads also tend to get good quality scores which results in a lower cost-per-click and a higher return on investment.

Once you’ve set up your campaign, it’s time to create your ads. You will be able to write as many four line ads as you’d like for each particular adword group. I would suggest starting out by writing two ads for each group and testing them against each other until you find a winner.

Obviously, as with any type of advertising, there are specific strategies that are most effective when it comes to writing ads. Here are some simple guidelines:

- Line 1 should contain your main keyword you are targeting and get attention

- Lines 2 & 3 should list specific benefits that your prospect will receive

- Line 4 should be a clear call-to-action

Once you’ve tracked, tested and tweaked your Pay-Per-Click campaign and ads where they’re running smoothly, you’ll want to expand your campaign to other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing as well as advertise on the content network within Google. The content network is where you can place text ads or banner ads on specific websites or specific types of websites that are related to your industry.

Setting up your Pay-Per-Click campaign can be a very labor extensive and expensive task if you don’t know exactly what you are doing. A good Pay-Per-Click management company can be worth its weight in gold. Often the amount of money that you will lose due to poor keyword selection, bad ad creation, and improper testing can pay for a great company to manage your account for you.



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Robert Walter asked:


I could write a lot of pages, maybe even a book explaining what pay per click marketing is and what it can do for your business, but I will keep this short and to the point. Pay per click (ppc) marketing is an advertising platform in which you bid an amount of money that you are willing to pay for a click. When a searcher does a search at Google all of the ads on the right side of the screen are ppc ads. Google calls them sponsored listings. When a surfer types in a keyword, the advertisers who have bid on that keyword have their ads displayed. When one of the ads is clicked by the surfer he is taken to the advertiser’s website. The advertiser is charged at maximum, the amount they’ve bid. Most of the time they are charged less than what they have bid. But they are never charged more than their maximum bid.

The bids can start at 1 cent and depending on the market and the ppc search engine, go up to $50 or more per click. When starting off I suggest bidding very low. Ten to fifteen cents per click or lower is a good start. The higher you bid the higher in the rankings your ad is shown therefore increasing your ad’s visibility and your potential visitors. The downside is bidding high can cost you a lot of money and in some cases bring you way over budget. Be very careful when bidding.

Bidding low might not get you as much traffic as bidding high but it will bring you traffic for much cheaper thus increasing your return of investment (ROI). One way to increase the amount of times your ad is shown (visibility) while bidding low, is to bid on a high volume of keywords. Some marketers bid on hundreds and up to hundreds of thousands of keywords.

This method will take some time. Putting together hundreds or thousands of keywords can be time consuming, but it is an effective strategy for getting quality traffic, without paying a lot of money. The more you work with the ppcs the faster you will get at putting together lists of keywords.

In case you’re not sure how to generate that many keywords there are many tools on the net that will help. Some are free and some charge money. One of the best free tools is offered by a company formerly named Overture, which has been bought out by Yahoo! This tool can be found here. http://inventory.overture.com

What can ppc marketing do for your business? Depending on your market, ppc marketing can be a great way to get quality traffic inexpensively, increasing your ROI and profit. It is also a great method for testing products because your ad can “go live” in as little as 15 minutes and up to 5 business days. Depending on which ppc search engine you use.

Advertising your business at free search engines a.k.a organic search engines can take weeks or even months for your website to be indexed in their directory. It can take a lot longer than that to get a decent ranking on your search terms. The more competitive the keywords you are trying to get listed, the harder it is to obtain a decent ranking. This is one reason why ppc search engines have a huge advantage over organic search engines.

I, as well as thousands of other marketers think the best two ppc search engines are Google Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture). Google claims your ad can “go live” in 15 minutes but it usually takes a couple of hours. This is really fast. Yahoo! Usually takes a couple of days.

There are thousands of smaller ppc search engines. Some of them are good and some are not. Some will take your money but will not have many searchers. Google and Yahoo have hundreds of millions of searchers every day. If you think about using a smaller ppc do some research and find out what experiences other marketers have had. There are thousands of forums, newsletters, ezines and info sites dedicated to educating people about ppc marketing. You can learn a lot about Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and a lot of the smaller (2nd tier) ppc search engines at these places.



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Andy West asked:


Every business out there is competing hard with others offering like products or services, thanks to the way the world has opened up and provided consumers with access to many different resources. Thanks to the pay-per-click marketing strategy found across the internet, someone requiring a service in Canada can easily hire a business in Florida or a product manufactured in Colorado can reach an end user in Australia. This is great, because the opportunities for higher sales and income are vast, compared to previous decades where your business was only locally known or only popular in the surrounding cities.

Stiff competition, however, has also meant that anyone with a business needs to promote and market their company effectively, encouraging and enticing surfers to visit their site and hopefully purchase their product or service. Having a pay-per-click marketing strategy to make sure your website gets seen and receives plenty of hits is integral to your business’s success, because if you’re not receiving traffic to your site, you’ve got a seriously struggling venture on your hands.

There are plenty of ways to boost sales and promote your website these days. Information is the current trend in tempting surfers to click links and reach your site. Articles posted on your website that teach people something new or give them pertinent information are helpful to draw in clientele. Press releases can also be effective to bringing attention to your business or company. Thanks to the way that individuals quickly turn to computers and the internet for their information, the written word and fundamental text has become the strongest venue to drawing in business.

Pay-per-click or PPC advertising is another growing method of boosting hits to your website. This principle of marketing is a venture of cooperation between websites, as you ask other sites to display a link for your website. When individuals are attracted to an ad displayed on a website, they click to follow the link through to your business portal. The company advertising your link receives income that you supply. In effect, this pay-per-click marketing strategy is paying someone to promote your company.

For someone adept with computers and having great interpersonal and negotiation skills, pay-per-click can be set up by an individual. Most people, however, don’t have the know-how or the time to work through the steps needed to set up this type of advertising. The best thing to do is to hire a PPC consulting firm that has all the resources and networking skills to build an effective promotion program. Not only that, hiring a pay-per-click consulting firm means that you don’t have to worry about links on dead sites, maintenance or creating a catchy advertisement.

Companies devoted to PPC consulting will work with you to develop a strong pay-per-click marketing strategy to know what product or service you’re trying to sell. From there, they’ll define your market target and develop surveys to help with the set-up of the promotion program. Once they’ve achieved result from these surveys, pay-per-click consulting firms will create advertisement that reaches the people you want it to and test the results. Revisions are sure to come into play, and businesses geared to pay-per-click consulting will compare their marketing against solid results. Considering the amount of work involved in this type of promotion, you certainly don’t want to go less than the full distance by trying to set up pay-per-click advertising yourself.

Reputable consulting firms that specialize in creating a pay-per-click marketing strategy for businesses are ones that are geared to website promotion. Every type of industry has experienced and skilled experts and the common jack-of-all-trades individual won’t be able to pull off such an intensive networking to boost your sales. If you’re serious about a successful business, you should hire companies that provide exactly what you need and you’ll soon be able to see that the cost of their time and efforts pays for itself over and over again as your sales increase.



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Bob Kern asked:


Yes, pay per click marketers, it’s that time — time to start thinking about your holiday marketing campaigns. This is how you get a jump on the competition – thinking and planning ahead, then implementing!

To that end, following are some things you should be doing right now to ensure successful PPC campaigns for the upcoming (right around the corner!) holiday season.

Decide On Your Offers: While you probably have generic pay per click campaigns running year round to keep leads coming in, now is a great time to get specific. And, this is what we mean by decide on your offers.

Put your best products and services forward. Bundle them, discount them, or use them as enticement offers – however you use them, NOW is the time to get what your offers are going to be in order.

This is important because . . .

Choose Effective Keywords: As you already know, in order to promote specific products and services with pay per click marketing, you have to choose specific keywords. Now’s no time to be general. Again, your year-round campaigns may be geared to keep traffic and leads flowing into your site.

But, as most retailers make the bulk of their sales during the holiday season, now you want sales – not leads that you can convert later (although that’s nice too).

So you have to know what you’re going to be offering in order to choose the most effective keywords for these offers.

Decide on a Budget: Ahhh, the “B” word – it’s something every online marketer has to be cognizant of. In order to use your budget most effectively – no matter how large or small it may be – choose your product offerings, and hence, your keywords well.

Run Split Tests: Piggybacking on the last point, you may even want to start running some small, split-test campaigns now to see which PPC offers are paying off. That way, when consumers turn their attention to online shopping, you’ll be well prepared to run your most cost-effective, high ROI return campaigns.

Study Results: Pay per click marketing is most effective when you test, test, test and study, study, study the results of those tests.

In order to be even more prepared next year, decide now what info you want to glean from this year’s PPC campaigns.

Good luck with your pay per click marketing efforts – and, not to rush the season, but . . . happy holidays!



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Devin Dozier asked:


Pay Per Click marketing is a very popular method for getting instant traffic to your affiliate programs.

It is quite simply a company paying the host of a website to allow their ad to be displayed on their site. Every time that the traffic to the site clicks on the ad, the owner of the site receives monetary compensation. Sounds simple enough, right?

Although, PPC advertising is definitely one of the fastest ways to boost your income but with the rewards also comes the dangers. There have been lots more failures in PPC than successes.

This is due to a number of different factors. Which is why I don’t recommend PPC marketing as a starting method for beginners. In order to be successful at PPC marketing you should invest in a thorough training program that will give you detailed

information on creating a successful PPC campaign. One course that will do this is PPC Classroom. I highly recommend investing in a course like PPC classroom because you will save a lot more money after you’ve learned the correct way to do PPC Marketing.

One of the reasons most people fail is that beginners who get into PPC advertising do not give themselves a chance to make any real money. They give up too soon. Most people expect to set up some ads and watch as money gets automatically deposited in their bank account. The truth is that you have to do a good bit of research on many levels of PPC.

After having completed extensive research on niches, keywords products, etc… you must have catchy attention grabbing ads. If the ads are dull, you can’t expect a ton of people to click on it. Interesting and unique ads will yield better results and higher Click through rates.

Testing and tweaking will become two of your better friends in the PPC advertising business. You have to see what is working and in what situation, and you can rarely expect one campaign to bring in the money.

It takes a good deal of research about the type of people visiting your site, their interests, and you can build a solid income on turning your new found knowledge into tangible results.

Pay Per Click marketing can work for you if you are willing to learn the ins and outs, and stick with it.

There are three points you must remember about PPC Marketing:

1) Detailed research on demographics, keywords, niches, and Cost

per click is a must.

2) Analyzing ads, landing pages, and the actual product is vital

to measuring the performance of your campaign.

3) Calculating your return on investment is crucial for determining

whether your campaign is profitable.

If you can keep up with those three points then you will be on the road to earning an outrageous income with PPC. The profits that PPC Marketing can attract are absolutely unlimited.



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Steve Waganer asked:


A study found out that more than seventy five percent of online visitors could be reached through pay per click marketing.

Yes, pay per click marketing is the best source to attract the attention of online visitors, but you must also realize that you need to know all you can before you actually start the process for your business. Nothing can be more frustrating then being caught in a situation where you are not aware of what you are doing and what is happening to your business. So make sure that you know in detail all the nitty gritty about pay per click marketing before using pay per click marketing for your business.

Finding out and identifying the proper keywords is the first task for undertaking pay per click marketing. What you need to do is find out what words will be used by online visitors for searching information or the products that are being sold through your business. There are various tools that can be used for finding out the correct and appropriate keywords for any particular business. Overture, word tracker and digital point are some of the tools that are capable of finding out appropriate keyword for any site in the web.

Sit and plan out carefully what amount of money you are willing to spend on your pay per click marketing campaign. For pay per click marketing, you will have to bid a certain sum of money on keywords that describe your business. Those particular keywords will be used for advertising your goods in major search engines. Whenever a visitor clicks on your site a pre determined amount will be reduced from your bid amount. It is inevitable that you will get many visitors who will click on your site just because your site happens to be listed at the top of sponsored finds in search engines. This cannot be avoided.

There is very little time to grab the attention of visitors. What you can do to grab visitor attention is to making very compelling landing pages. It is very possible that people will not buy goods from you for the first time they visit, but design the page in such a way that at least the visitor leaves behind his email address so that you can contact them in future and tell them about your products. Your landing page must appeal emotionally to the visitor. If you manage to gather the email address you can create a strong database and send out emails through auto responder.

Competition is something that is inevitable and you cannot avoid this in any field. So any marketing strategy including your pay per click marketing strategy must be made and implemented in such a way that you always stay miles ahead of them. Being successful in business is all about beating the competition and no matter how tough the competition, you will have to beat this at all cost.



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Cash Miller asked:


Are you considering whether to run a pay per click marketing campaign for you company? Maybe though you are not quit sure what you might be getting into. Then it is in your best interests to know both the pros and cons that come with such a campaign.

With any type of business idea a person likes to look at the benefits first because they want to see the positive side. So that is the place to start. What exactly are the pros of running a pay per click campaign for your business and product.

1. Anyone can do it. Pay per click marketing can be used by anyone. You do not necessarily need deep pockets to get started. Yes you need some start up funds. But you get to set your own budget. Whether it is a $100 or $500 or $5000 you get to determine the amount of money you want to spend. You have the control instead of someone else. Pay per click marketing is available to everyone. And you do not need to be a genius to get started.

2. The results of a pay per click campaign can usually be seen immediately. It does not take weeks or months to know whether your campaign has been successful. You are able to track the results of your campaign as it is happening. This gives you the ability to make quick decisions about your campaign as well. If your campaign is going well you can increase your budget and if not you can cut back. You’ll know how to react when it matters instead of after it is too late.

3. Your website doesn’t need to follow all the SEO rules. Organic search engine results rely on websites being well optimized. But with a pay per click campaign you are buying placement at the top of the search engine results page. You get to automatically go to the head of the class.

4. You can bid on any keyword or phrase that you want. Most businesses and products have all sorts of keywords related to it. And you can have a piece of as many as you would like for a price. All you need to do is keep your bidding competitive.

So now that you know what some of the pros are it is important to know a few of the cons as well.

1. Pay per click fraud. Not every visitor received is a legitimate prospect. Some clicks may come from competitors that are looking to cost you money. It does happen at times. So it is important that you take the time to analyze your click traffic periodically. That way you might spot illegitimate clicks. If this does happen and you can prove it you can often get your money back.

2. Effective pay per click advertising can be expensive over the long run. And you have to spend the time tracking your campaign so that your costs do not get out of hand. You can easily lose thousands if you think you are going to set up a campaign that will run itself.

3. You have to pay the bill each month. If you don’t your campaign can get cut off. Once again this emphasizes the point of active management being needed. Having the time and resources set aside before you begin is important to a successful campaign.

Pay per click marketing has been the single biggest breakthrough in advertising since the invention of the TV. The dollars being spent on this form of advertising are only getting bigger each year. If you need to reach a large audience and the internet has the single largest audience you are ever going to find then pay per click marketing might be right for you.



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Anthony Bandalos asked:


Pay per click marketing is considered as one of the best methods to ensure maximum and effective online advertising. Although most PPC marketers believe that PPC marketing is a great way to win potential customers and allure them to your website, they also know that PPC marketing may also cause you serious loss at times. Because of both the pros and cons of PPC marketing, you need to know the real facts and PPC marketing techniques. This essential to have a clear picture while you make use of Google Adwords PPC, or another PPC program.

One of the most vital PPC marketing facts you need to know is that the optimization of your ads and landing pages are necessary. It implies that your ad copy should link to the keyword you are bidding for in addition to representing what your visitors are going to see when they click on the advertisement. Be it Google, Yahoo or MSN, search engines are primarily about relevancy. Particularly, Google will rank your ad higher and let you recompense less compared to the one with bad quality ad and click through rate (CTR). Click through rate indicates the number of times your ad is clicked opposed to the total of impressions received.

For successful PPC marketing, you need to perk up your CTR. For this reason, you should always try to make use of the specific keyword for the advertisement title. In case you bid on multiple keywords for a single ad, Google Adwords PPC has a keyword insertion tool, which permits you to place in each keyword in your ad copy. By injecting them into the ad, Google Adwords PPC will place in whatever the keyword is in the advertisement at that specific spot. This is simple way to maximize your CTR without writing numerous different ads for all the applicable keywords.

Another PPC marketing fact which will help to boost your CTR is to split test different ads. Google Adwords PPC and most other Pay Per click search engines will ensure that you can run two separate ads for the similar keyword or phrase and will display improved performance . Once you recognize the better performing ad, you can do away with the other one. By continuously testing new ad copy, you will be able to capitalize on your CTR. If you use Google Adwords PPC, you can also lower your ad costs and have the same place.

Only by employing and using these facts about PPC marketing, you can have maximum lead generation. So exploit Pay per click to enter into a new arena of internet marketing.

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Aaron Simmons asked:


The internet is an ever expanding, and evolving medium. A time goes by, many new features and methods surface with the intention of aiding its users to achieve their goals. Focusing on the marketing end of the internet, a method which continues to stay on regardless of the many changes is pay per click marketing. This type of marketing is still considered to be the most popular and useful method in getting traffic to a designated website within a short period of time after its introduction early in the century. Done correctly, this method may even increase traffic and sales within the first day the campaign is set up.

 

Since the advent of pay per click marketing, many companies started to provide their pay per click services to the netizens looking for traffic which in the end would result in gaining income by one way or another. Google, being the most popular company in providing this service continues to be the favorite among internet marketers today. Provided the marketers are willing to pay for it.

 

Before investing in this type of marketing, the beginner marketer needs to understand several basic aspects. The first and most common mistake is that most beginners tend to use up their advertising budget early on without even getting the right quality of traffic to their website. Sure you may get hundreds of visits a day, but are those visitors the right group of users that are interested in your specific website? Learning to bid on the right keywords and setting up your ads correctly may save you from this common mistake.

 

With more exploration and research, things such as proper keyword targetting and the right use of words in writing ads will surely benefit in the quest to get quality traffic to your website. With the growth of internet businesses today, it is no doubt that pay per click marketing will continue to be a popular and most preferred method in online advertising. With the right knowledge and research, pay per click marketing may ensure the longevity of your online business in today’s race to be the most successful home entrepreneur.



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David Barnard asked:


 

People that have websites needing traffic normally find that pay per click can be one of the most cost effective techniques they employ to get that extra traffic. For many companies, this is the only method they employ because the results speak for themselves. If you are curious about pay per click search marketing and what it can do for you, there are a few things that you should keep in mind. If not done correctly, pay per click marketing, can cost you a lot of money, so you need to be sure of what you are doing.

Essentially, when you decide that you want to try this kind of advertising, you will create a small ad referring to your site that will be put up on a larger site that many people frequently look at. Providing the person who sees and clicks on your links stays for longer than ten seconds, the site they came from gets paid from your account as a thank you. There are a couple of points to remember about this, your advert will be related to the subject of the site it is being used on and these sites are generating huge amounts of traffic. For many people the benefit of only paying when the service is used i.e. when someone actually visits your site cannot be underestimated.

Rather than paying for a month’s worth of advertisements that might bring you no clients, here, you will only pay when people notice the advertisement and then go on to your site. While you may be worried that your competitors might click your ads to drive up your revenues, this is simply not worth their time and does not happen very often. The advantage of this pay per click system is just how directed the advertising is and of course, more effective use of a marketing budget. The people visiting the hosting site are already looking for related products or services to those you are offering.

By now most people have experienced the Google Adwords pay per click system which has grown dramatically in recent years. The process is easy to understand, all you need to do is provide Google with the phrase or word that you want people to use to see your advert. If you have paid a great deal for the search term you may find your sponsored advert at the top of Google’s search page or it might be at the side.

For many advertisers it can just be this simple feat that makes pay per click customers use Google. When the ad goes up, you will have a good idea as to whether or not it is effective. 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.

 



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Jerry Work asked:


Pay per click marketing has five major advantages that set it apart from other forms of advertising. These are immediacy, flexibility, transparency, portability, and scalability. Each of these advantages is discussed in more detail below.

Immediacy. With paid search, once you identify keywords for which you would like your site to be listed in a search engine results page, or a relevant non-search site for which you would like your ad to appear, you can have your ad appearing in a matter of hours, if not minutes. To get your site listed as a natural result on a search results page will likely require months of time and a considerable amount of work. Most other forms of advertising also require considerable production time.

Flexibility. Imagine that your company has just spent a large sum of money producing a TV ad. One night, you see your TV ad and decide that you just don’t like it and want to change it immediately. That would be a very expensive nightmare. By contrast, a pay per click ad can be changed at any time, with the new ad running in place of the old with no delay. Pay per click gives you incredible flexibility to make real-time changes to your campaign based on data or personal preference.

Transparency. With paid search, you have complete clarity regarding the performance of your advertising. Unlike traditional advertising, such as print, radio, or TV ads, with paid search you will know exactly how many leads or sales resulted from your promotions. Not only will you know in a broad sense, you will know down to the level of exactly what keyword and what ads generated the most clicks or conversions. This makes it much easier to tweak your ad campaign for maximum profitability.

Portability. You will learn much from your pay per click campaign that can be ported to other advertising media. For example, if you discover a particular keyword that converts at a very high rate, then you might be well-served to engage in a search engine optimization campaign so that your site appears in the natural search listings for that same keyword. Or you might discover that one of your ads with a particular headline does very well, indicating that it might be a headline or slogan that would work well for your off-line marketing.

Scalability. If you want to advertise on TV, you have to have the budget to produce the TV commercial. If you want to run a print ad, you may find the expense prohibitive. By contrast, with a pay per click campaign, you can begin advertising immediately regardless of how small your budget is. If you are running standard search engine results page text link ads, there is no production cost other than the time it takes you to write your ads. And even if your budget is only $10 per day, you can still get in the game (unless you are in one of the extremely expensive categories such as mortgage loans or accident attorneys). Once you have a larger budget, it is very easy to scale your campaign up.

The above list represents the five major advantages of pay per click compared to other forms of advertising. It is a medium available to even the smallest advertiser that offers great flexibility and affordability. If you are currently spending money on traditional advertising, I highly recommend that you give paid search a try.



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Guido Nussbaum asked:


The Internet is constantly evolving and changing, especially for those of us that are involved in the marketing end of the net. For some people, they have seen the changes come and go and trends that burn like fire for a while and then simply die out. One method of marketing, however, that is sure to stick around for the long term is pay per click marketing. This is one of the best methods of getting targeted traffic to your website in a short period of time. If done correctly, you can take a brand-new website and start getting sales on the very same day that it is uploaded.

Pay per click marketing actually got its start very early in the century with a company that was called Goto. This company eventually became Overture and then was bought out by Yahoo. In the early days, it was very easy to purchase some targeted traffic to your website at around one cent for every click. People that got in on the game early were able to make a killing in a relatively short period of time if they did it correctly.

Since that time, competition has come in from all different directions and more pay per click marketing companies have opened their doors to advertisers. As a matter of fact, Yahoo takes a distant second to the king of all pay per click advertisers, Google. The Google system has revolutionized pay per click marketing in a number of different ways and it is the single best way to drive quick traffic to your website, if you are willing to pay for it.

There are several different aspects of pay per click marketing that are very important for you to understand fully before you decide to get involved with this form of advertising. First of all, you need to learn how to use the system properly so that you don’t end up exhausting your entire advertising budget in a short period of time on traffic that has no way of generating any income at all. This is a very common mistake that many who are new to pay per click advertising tend to make. Once you learn the system, however, of how to bid and how to set up your various ads, it becomes an easy thing for you to build on and to maintain.

As you continue to learn more about this form of marketing, you will understand some of the intricacies that govern where your ad will be placed and how well the traffic that follows through to your website will be targeted. Things such as keyword targeting and writing proper ads will all come into play along with making sure that your landing page is relevant to the ad itself. There’s no doubt about it, using pay per click marketing is the single best way to generate an income online in a relatively short period of time. If you do it properly, it will take care of you for a long time to come.



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