Thursday, September 18, 2008

Advantages of Pay Per Click Advertising

By Brian Basch


There are several points that make pay per click advertising a vital part of your business. Here are five.

Your first objective when you begin a pay per click advertising campaign is to get the edge on your competition. Pay per click works on the concept of how the average person searches. Despite the fact that many results can come up, only the first few are looked at by the searcher. Pay per click advertising will ensure that your ad will be among these first results. This will enable searchers to notice your ads and hopefully click through and buy your products. In this way you will get ahead of your competition.

The related advantage which pay per click advertising offers you is that your entry will appear at the head of the list right from the time you enlist the advertising campaign, which means that you do not have to waste precious time waiting for your website to grow in popularity, traffic, or business. The flip side to this is that, as you shall have to bid for it, the assured foremost entry against a search may become very expensive.

Pay per click advertising will increase exposure for your website. Your little ad will appear on the right hand side of the search page in Google. This makes your ad get noticed and makes it more likely that the reader will click on your ad's link.

The concept of pay per click advertising works because it customizes the results delivered by the search engine to suit the particular and specialized products and services of your business, thereby cutting out clutter and streamlining access between the prospective customer interested specifically in your product or service and you. You thus get to define a set of terms by which your website may be tagged, and when any of those terms are entered into the search field of the search engine, the search shall show your website as one of its top most return entries. Pay per click advertising thus puts you and your prospects in direct touch.

And finally, pay per click advertising is economical since you have to pay for only those people who click on your link and actually reach you. As opposed to any other form of mass-scale commercial advertising where one pays for the slot or space irrespective of the actual conversion of prospective customers into interested ones, here you pay only per click on your advertisement, which minimizes the wastage of your hard-earned money.

However be advised. It is wise to optimize your pay per click advertising campaign. Or you will be spending way too much money. Positioning is best between the 3rd and 8th spots on the search results first page. This will save you money because 1st places are usually very expensive. You will also not miss out on exposure for your ad. With this in mind you can run a very profitable pay per click advertising campaign.

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