Businesses worldwide typically focus on broadening their marketing to include Pay-Per-Click advertising in an effort to enhance traffic to their site. Many ask, what is Pay-Per-Click? Pay-Per-Click, also known as PPC, is a form of Internet advertising used to direct traffic to websites wherein the business advertiser will pay the hosting search engine only when the ad is clicked and directed to the advertisers site.
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August 19th, 2011
Don’t Be So Quick To Point The Finger
Companies that participate in Pay Per Click advertising (often referred to as PPC) often like to put the responsibility of sales on this advertising strategy. This is a common mistake and often results in companies prematurely cancelling their participation with these programs. Pay Per Click is not responsible. People place blame on PPC and shut down their campaigns when they see that they have cost them money and nobody purchased their service or product.
August 11th, 2011
Tips on Advertising in Pay-Per-Click With Targeted Keywords
Believe it or not, in today’s world, there are still a lot of people out there that are unfamiliar with Pay-Per-Click Advertising, also known to the Internet savvy as PPC. Pay-Per-Click advertising is the program that is responsible for the ads on the major search engines that pull up on top and down the right hand side when you are searching the Internet.
August 9th, 2011
Best Practices for Keyword Analysis
Many wonder if they are utilizing the best practices when it comes to searching for the appropriate keyword within the pay per click arena. Often, it is difficult to determine the best targeted keywords that will match or lure in people who are browsing the web. First and foremost, decide on a monthly budget for your campaign. Once you determine a comfortable amount, there are several other things to consider
June 28th, 2011
What Does My Website Have in Common with a Hamburger Joint?
So you just created an awesome website and you’re getting no traffic. I am not surprised! Many companies pay top dollar to have a beautiful site built with all types of bells whistles but these same companies forget one important piece of the puzzle. They forget to create a budget for SEO, pay per click, and social media marketing!
June 21st, 2011
Making Too Many Changes At Once to Your Pay Per Click Campaign Is Unwise
the world of Pay Per Click, there are many changes you can make to your account to try to better your outcome or tweak what is in there. Making too many of them at once leaves you with an uncertainty of what worked and what didn’t.
June 3rd, 2011
What is Pay Per Click Advertising?
Pay per click advertising (PPC) is an Internet Marketing avenue that is used to direct visitors to your website. The advertiser pays fees to the search engines based on bids placed on keywords which are specific to your business and target market. A website that uses PPC will have a list of keywords and when a keyword search query is done on one of your targeted keywords a relevant advertisement will appear.
May 6th, 2011
Common Mistakes When Managing PPC on Your Own
People often make common mistakes when making the decision to advertise their company and the products they sell through Pay-Per-Click advertising on the Internet. They look at what is entailed in creating a Pay-Per-Click program and decide to manage it themselves. When at a glance, it might seem simple, but there is so much more to it than just slapping in some keywords and an ad and letting them ride.
April 27th, 2011
How A Website Can Be A Great Salesperson
Recently, we’ve all heard someone complaining about the economy and its effect on everything. I agree, money is tight all around, however it does not mean that people aren’t spending it.It just means you have to be more creative in attracting the “buyers” out there. Internet Marketing is a function of simply two things; making sure you’re getting as much targeted traffic as possible, second and very important, to make sure you’re converting that traffic at as high a percentage as possible.
February 28th, 2011
Common Pay-Per-Click Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
It is important to use pay per click long enough to collect information about which techniques are and are not working. In order to understand the different techniques, consider the conversion metrics. There are conversion-tracking tools with Google that calculates traffic and actions on a website. Link the types of clicks with different values in the conversion-tracking tools to determine the return on investment (ROI) for a pay per click campaign.
