PPC (Pay Per Click)
Have You Built You PPC Campaign Yet?
When talking about marketing on the Internet, you may come across the term PPC (Pay Per Click). Just one of dozens of methods available to the Internet marketer, PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising is pretty much what it sounds like. Your ad runs on other websites and every time someone clicks on your link and visits your site, you pay for that visit. If no one ever bothers with your ads, then you don’t have to pay anything.
How does PPC (Pay Per Click) differ from other forms of advertising? When you advertise in the traditional sense (posting an ad on a site instead of in a newspaper), you pay for the length (duration) of time the ad will remain on that site. This is fine if you have a large budget and plan on targeting large web businesses that already have a large number of people visiting their site every day. With the traditional method of advertising, you’re gambling that your ad and its design and the site you’re posting it on will generate enough interest in your businesses and drive enough traffic to your site that the expense will be justified.
For startups and small businesses, this is often not feasible, and therefore PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising is a great alternative. When you can run your ads on other sites and only pay when someone clicks on your ad and visits your site, this accomplishes two things: you know exactly how many people visited your site based on the ad and you don’t have to pay and hope.
PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising does have some drawbacks, however, and they are important to understand. Depending on the advertising service you choose will determine how much you pay per click. Some sites charge fifty cents, others more, some less. Just because someone clicks on your ad doesn’t mean that they will buy anything from you. This means that you will need to focus your advertising campaign very, very carefully. If you’re selling video games, you won’t want your ad to run on a gardening website.
Ad content and placement are also important considerations. If you’re video game empire-in-the-making runs ads that talk about sex or have scantily clad women smiling seductively at the reader, then you may end up paying for many visits from people who thought your site was something else. If your ad is stuffed in the center of many other, more pertinent ads or ‘buttons,’ people may accidentally click on your ad when they are trying to click on something else. They’ll immediately close the window with your website but you get charged all the same.
PPC (Pay Per Click) has some great advantages for small businesses as long as you use good judgment and understand how they charge and what risks to avoid from the outset. It’s best to not rely solely on PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising but consider it as a supplement to your Internet marketing campaign.
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Kameron George
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