3 Benefits Of Pay Per Click Advertising

May 24th, 2009
Chris Noonan asked:


Over the past few years, Pay Per Click Advertising has become an extremely popular option for online marketers. Whether you are working for a large corporation or just have your own web site, ppc advertising can help you achieve your online marketing goals. Thanks to the diversity of companies offering Pay Per Click Advertising (from the major search engines of Google, Yahoo and MSN to smaller players like Search Feed and 7Search), you can use ppc advertising to benefit your web site, regardless of your budget. In order to help you understand the true potential of Pay Per Click Advertising, here are three benefits that it can provide:

Traffic-Obviously, this is the number one benefit of ppc advertising. Because of the low costs of bidding on keywords, Pay Per Click Advertising can help you drive a large amount of traffic for a relatively low price. The other major advantage of PPC traffic is the fact that it is instant. Unlike organic traffic (which can many months or even a year to start coming for new web sites), you can start driving pay per click traffic to your web site right now.

Branding-Many online marketers are working under the misconception that once they have achieved strong organic search engine rankings, running a PPC campaign is worthless. On the contrary, setting up and running a pay per click campaign is quite valuable, even if your web site is drawing in quality traffic organically. The reason that a PPC campaign can compliment organic rankings is that it can help improve your web site’s branding. When potential visitors see your web site listed twice in a search engine’s results, their trust for you will increase immensely. This will translate into more leads and/or sales from your web site, along with more return visitors.

Easy Conversion Tracking-The reason I am adding this as a benefit is because it shows how much easier it is to control and manage your PPC budget versus an SEO or similar budget. When it comes to PPC, you not only know exactly how much money your web site is generating, but you also know exactly how much you had to spend to make it. This will help you carefully plan your budget and get the most results for the money you have.



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PPC Advertising Tips – Learn How to Make Money With Pay Per Click

May 23rd, 2009
Jason M Paulsone asked:


Pay Per Click Advertising can be a fantastic way to generate immediate traffic and sales. However it can also be a very fast way to go broke if you do not know what you are doing. There are many pay per click services out there now, the largest is Google adwords and it is also the one with the most traffic. It can often be a good idea to check out the smaller search engines as the competition is less so you often pay less for clicks.

Keywords are very important when it comes to succeeding in the pay per click game. You must select keywords that are highly relevant to the product or service you are offering. The more relevant and targeted the keywords are the better your conversion rates will be and the more money you will make. You are better off having less keywords that are highly targeted than paying for untargeted terms that are not profitable.

The Google adwords system rewards accounts that have highly relevant ads by charging them less for clicks and causing their ads to rank higher. Focus on building small ad groups that are laser targeted towards a specific keyword. This will help to improve the quality score of your account. Also make sure you are using the quality score feature in the adwords account keywords section to make sure that your keywords are relevant.

Make sure that you are checking your adwords account regularly because many times keywords become inactive so you need to either delete them or optimize your ads. Creating another ad group specifically for that keyword is often a great way to improve the quality of your ads. Do not pay too much money for the content network, in fact it is a good idea to place lower separate bids for the content network since the traffic is often less targeted. The content network can be an effective way to build a mailing list so you can use it for the purpose of lead generation.

If you can it is a good idea to track your ads by using the conversion tracking feature that comes with most major ppc providers. This will allow you to see the effectiveness of each keyword and often you will want to bid higher and pay more for keywords that are converting well so it is an important feature to use. You will however need to have full control of the product you are selling so using this feature as an affiliate can be difficult however sometimes the merchant may enable this feature if you contact them and ask them about it.



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How To Improve CTR Of Your Google Adwords!

May 20th, 2009

Arun Agrawal asked:


As you are aware, Google adwords is one of the most popular PPC avenues because of several features.

* Low signup cost (only $5) * Instant activation of your account * Instant activation of your ad campaign * Provision to set daily spending limits

As the Click-Through-Rate (CTR) goes up, your ad position improves and Cost-Per-Click (CPC) goes down. This really puts Google adwords in a different league.

Here are some simple tips to improve your CTR –

1) Specific matching along with broad matching

Generally when you want to advertise for, say, online dating, you put online dating in the keywords list. I suggest that you all of these in the keywords list -

[online dating] “online dating” online dating

This way, when a searcher types just online dating, the click is credited to the 1st keyword. If the searcher types a keyphrase including online dating in that order but as part of a bigger term like free online dating, it is credited to the 2nd keyword. And if both online and dating are present but not together and in that order, like online singles dating, it is credited to the 3rd keyword.

This improves the CTR for certain specific keywords and helps to lower your CPC and also improves your ad position.

2) Use a variable title

Did you know that your clickthrough rate (CTR) goes up when the searcher sees his keywords (that he searched for) in your ad? This is because Google shows these words in bold.

But you don’t know what term this searcher has used. So how can you put the term in the title? Try this.

Put this string in the title field on the adwords screen -

{KeyWord: Default Title} where you replace “Default Title” with a suitable text. Now Google will show the search term as the ad title if the searched term fits within the 25 character limit and your default title if the search term won’t fit.

Example – say you use {KeyWord: Online Dating} as the title and dating as the keyword.

If someone searches for dating help, the shown title will be Dating Help. However if one searches for free online dating resources, Google will show Online Dating because the search term won’t fit in the title space (25 characters).

Did you notice the capitalization? If you use Keyword, then only the first word would be capitalized. If you use keyword, all the letters will be in small case.

This tip alone can boost your CTR by 157% or more.

3) Variable destination URL

Did you know that Google now allows variable destination URLs? Why do you need that? Variable destination URL can help you identify the terms that the searchers are using and you can alter your page content to suit those terms for a much better conversion.

Let’s see the syntax to get the search term in the destination URL –

http://www.ebizindia.co m/pam.php?kw={keyword}

Here we are sending the searcher to a PHP program (you can use a Perl program also), which then stores the terms in a database for easy analysis. You can plan for yourself how you want to put this information to your advantage.

Frankly this tip does not increase your clickthrough rate directly but once you know what the searches were searching for, when they arrived at your site, you can change your message for a much better response



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