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Defining Pay Per Click Advertising




By James M. Taylor

There is no doubt that you have great products and services to offer and you have made a substantial investment in your website. Unfortunately, it's a fact that you may never realize the potential of the Internet unless you find a way of driving prospective customers to your website.

There are numerous marketing techniques on the Internet today for example: Google Adwords, Forums, Signature files, email advertising and Pay Per Click advertising. One of the most effective online strategies for generating sales is by attracting targeted traffic to your website and converting them to sales with the "Pay-Per-Click" Search Engines. Pay Per Click advertising can and should become an indispensable part of your businesses sales-generating arsenal. Pay Per Click advertising is one of the more popular techniques of the past 10 years.

So what question would one have about PPC Advertising? Well one question would be. What is Pay Per Click? Pay Per Click Advertising also known as (PPC) is one of many techniques use by Internet Marketers to drive traffic to their web sites.

Where do we use Pay Per Click advertising? Marketers use Pay Per Click advertising for advertising networks, search engines and websites. Pay Per Click advertisements are mostly text ads that are located near search result in a strategic fashion.

Why do we use Pay Per Click Advertising? When someone visits the site and clicks on the ad, the advertiser is charged a certain amount of money. In turn the advertising company's revenue increases when the number of clicks increase. Pay Per Click is a Very effective technique that 's easy to use. Advertisers want their advertisements seen by people, so they offer them money to visit their websites and click on certain ads, generating income for that advertising company with search Engines.

So now the big question is: How much does Pay Per Click advertising cost? Well it depends on what search engine you use. For smaller search engines the cost is around $0.01 per click. For bigger search engines the cost is normally about $0.05 to $.10 per click.

Keyword Search engines are a big part of Pay Per Click Advertising. When clients search a certain word or phrase, a list of advertisement links appear When ever that advertisement link is clicked the visitor count for that advertisement is increased, creating revenue for that for advertising company. There are 2 other classifications for search engines, they are Product and Service engines. The 2 major players in the Pay Per Click arena are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Engine. Overture is the world's leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search on the Internet and reaches more than 80% of active Internet users. When you advertise in Overture Premium Listings(TM), your business appears in the top U.S. search sites such as: MSN, Yahoo, InfoSpace, Lycos, AltaVista, Google, Ask Jeevs and Netscape. Pay Per Click continues to be one of the best advertising techniques on the Internet today.
 
 
About the Author
James Taylor
PIF4P WealthBuilding Group
www.bigcashnow.ws
To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: twc57.payitforward4profits.com

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