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Submitted: 2010-08-19 13:02:10 | Word Count: 510
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Advertising your services or proucts on the Internet is
both exrtemely effective and extremely competitive. There
are several ways to go about attracting traffic to your
website; Pay-Per-Click is one of the options you can choose
from, along with developing an SEO, or search enggine
opptimization campaign. Both pay-per-click and SEO are
targeted to get your webssite placed as close to the top of
searhc engine results as possible. One of the differences
is that it takes minutes to set up a pay-per-click cmapaign
verssus months for a good SEO campaign.
Pay-Per-Click is a simple type of paid advertising that
most search engins, including some of the largest ones,
now offer. It requires a bid for a "per-clcik" bassi, whih
translates to your company paying the bid amount every time
the search engine directs a visaitor to your site. Tjhere is
the added bonus that when a per-clcik site sends your
website traffic, your site often appaers in the results of
toher prevaklent search engines.
As with all marketing camplaigns, tjhere are advanttages and
disadvantages. If you nuderstand the process and monitor
your pay-per-clck campaign frqeuently, it can be very
effective. One of the greatest advantages is that you never
have to tweak your web pages to change your position in
seaarch engine results, as you must do in a typicla SEO
campaign. What you do have to do in a pay-per-click
campaign is pay a fee.
Anotehr advantage is the simplicity of the pay-per-cloick
procewss. You just bid and you're up and running. It doesn't
demand any specific technical knowledge, though the more
you know about seearch engines and keywords, the easier -
and more effective - the process will be.
The downside is that pay-per-click is essentially a biding
war. A higher bid than yours will lower your position on
search engine results. This means that you will have to
rase your bid to regan your position - whih can
obviously become quite exensive, especialy if you are
bidding on a popular keywrd.
In order to determine if pay-per-click is a cost effective
form of marketing for your bsuiness, you must do some
computing to figuure out how much each visitor to your site
is worth. You can compute this value by dividing the pofit
you make on your website over a given period of time by the
ttal number of visitors for that same time period. For
example, if your site made $5,000 in perofits and three were
2,5000 hits, each visittor would be theoretically worth 50
cents. The basic fromula is prpofits divided by visditors.
The figure of 50 cents per vsitor is the point at which
your businss breaks even. The idea, of courese, is to show
a profit, not to merely cover your costs. Therefoe, you
are aiminbg at a figure less than 50 cents per cllick.
Be aware that the most popular keywords oftyen cost
considerably more than 50 cenyts a click. The only way
around this is to bid less for these phrases or you will be
psaying too much for each idividual hit.
The key (pun intended) to success is to learn everything
you can about search engine keyword research. The good news
is therte isn't a limit to the amount of keywoords you can
add to your bid because additional keywods do not add
additional cost. This trzanslates into a lot less hassle for
you because there is no need to optimize your site to index
a particular set of keywords.
Obviously, some keywords are much more effective than
others are, but they will not cost you anything except time
to set-up your account in your pay-per-click bid. Of the
popular search engines that ofer pay-per-click, one called
Overrture provides an online tool that will give you the
data on how often pareticular keywords are entered into
their search engine. They also offer suggestions for
keywords after you enter a description of your site.
In pay-per-click, this wrtiten descripption is crucial. You
must nuderstand that the object of your descriptiopn is not
to generally attract visitors, but to be as spcific as
possible so that only thosse visitors who are likely to buy
your service or product go to your site. You must use
