Saturday, April 26, 2008

AdWords versus AdSense

By Kirt Christensen

Internet marketers everywhere are familiar with these words. Google's Adwords and Adsense are recent comers to the internet marketing venue. People are lining up wanting to join the ranks of Google users. You can see pamphlets and ebooks all over telling of the virtues of these marketing scenes. They call to all to come and get involved in internet marketing and the benefits of having that career.

So, what are Adsense and Adwords? What differences are there between them? This is information that you need but is not offered by the fanatics eager to find a new convert. You would be surprised about how little information these fanatics can have. That is the one thing internet marketers need in order to be a success: information.

The whole idea is really very simple. When someone goes on google and types a few words into the search bar, this lets Google to show them options where to look for information. The words used in the search bar are then known as keywords.

Keywords are the words used to direct a target audience to a particular advertisement or website. By creating advertisements incorporating these keywords advertisers can have their ads displayed along with the various search results that Google comes up with and the amount of exposure their ads receive all but doubles.

Launching a successful AdWords campaign is not something which should be taken lightly, managing it even less so. A failed AdWords campaign can cost the marketer a large portion of their advertising budget. AdWords is a pay per click marketing strategy which allows the advertiser an unlimited amount of exposure in exchange for a small fee; generally less than a dollar, but one that adds up exponentially as time passes on.

Adsense works for the website owner like adwords works for the advertiser. With adsense, website owners choose a list of topics or keywords that are pertinent to the topic of their website and then Google sends them a variety of adwords ads to show on their site. When someone clicks on the ad they are payed a portion of the fee google charges the advertiser. Hopefully when the searcher clicks over they will buy from the advertiser. If working properly this is beneficial for both adwords and ansense subscribers.

Anyone still confused about the relationship between AdWords and AdSense can Google the two words for a more detailed explanation and the steps to launching their own respective campaigns.

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