PPC Makes Your Business Click!



PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click - the most popular advertising technique on the Internet. In fact Google Adwords and Google Adsense (PPC advertising) is a big part of what has made them the search engine power house they are today. You will find PPC on websites, advertising networks, and especially on search engines. PPC advertising involves "paid for" or "sponsored links" that are typically in the form of text ads. These are usually placed close to search results, where an advertiser "bids" or pays a particular amount to visitors who click on these links or banners and land on the advertiser's web page.

Essentially, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings for desired search terms. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services - the higher the bid, the higher the spot on the search results, the more the people will find the ad (and click on it) to go to their websites (this is why some people call it "keyword auctioning"). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.

PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:

Pay per placement
Pay per performance
Pay per ranking
Pay per position
Cost per click (CPC)

PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:

Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.

Creating a keyword list.

Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.

Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases.

Writing out an ad copy.

Setting up the 'landing pages' for your ads.

Placing the advertisement in the search engine.

There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business 'online'. Some of them are listed below:

Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly - they can go 'online' within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.

Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into 'qualified' people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer - those who are more likely to become a 'lead' (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.

Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or "organic" search engines.

Track your investment. PPC advertising makes use of a tracking system that will determine exactly who comes to the website and what they do once they arrive - the length of their stay on the site and the number of pages (including the actual pages) that they view. These are valuable tools in determining statistics such as return on investment (ROI), acquisition cost-per-visitor, and conversion rates (the percentage of visitors who are converted into customers or leads).

In our next article you will find some important consideration when planning your pay per click campaigns:


To your Pay Per Click Success,
The Dot Com Objectives Team

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