Pay Per Click Considerations For Business Promotion

The greater the risk, the greater the reward?

It would appear that after getting a slap on the wrist, following some expensive lawsuits, Google and Yahoo are now finally doing something to try and combat click fraud. Whether these efforts will have any success, or be pursued with any conviction, remains to be seen.

With estimates of fraud accounting for between 14% and 30% many businesses should stop and think whether investing in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is really worth it? PPC is, after all, only a short term solution to a long-term objective, and can be an expensive one at that.

In 2006 Yahoo paid $5 million to disgruntled PPC advertisers and a year latter Google handed over $90million. This was the culmination of a number of years' complaints and law suits because they were viewed to not be doing enough to tackle the problem. A study, called "Click Fraud Reaches $1.3 billion, Dictates End of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Era" released by research firm Outsell, claimed that "Google, Yahoo and MSN are stonewalling on click fraud, to their own and others' detriment." They were seen to be dragging their heels to plug a hole that was pouring money into their own coffers.

That said, still Pay Per Click publishing holds potential for increasing your profits. The format of PPC publishing is quick and simple. However, to use pay per click effectively you need to be aware of several issues. If you fail to plan ahead, you may not only not reach your target goals but you could also waste a great deal of money in the process. There are few key points one must keep in mind in order to reap its maximum benefits.

1. It is imperative that you have a comprehensive marketing plan and strategy. This will give you a better understanding of your goals and allow you to create the most appropriate plan of action. The plan must encompass all aspects of your project.
2. Pay per click advertising can gain you visibility in minutes but has a limited shelf life due to the ever increasing price of keywords. Standard SEO techniques are now also inadequate. Fiddling with meta-tags and carefully crafted page titles might get your site indexed, but won't satisfy Google and Yahoo's desire for the most up-to-date, relevant info.
   
3. It is essential that you keep in mind the fast pace of Pay Per Click publishing. It may be in your best interest to engage the services of a professional. Today, there are many people whose focus is exclusively PPC publishing. Their services are usually most equitable. Otherwise you definitely need to educate yourself on pay per click strategies before you start spending money.
4. PPC is only viable as a short term tool for selling products of significant enough value and conversion ratio to ensure a good ROI. Using a PPC ROI calculator you can gauge whether a paid ad campaign would be appropriate for your business. Your campaign will also need to be monitored on a daily basis to ensure you are using the most profitable keywords and hitting your conversion target. If the results aren't as hoped you can always pull the plug. One of the advantages of PPC is its campaign visibility.

How does PPC Web Advertising Work?

With pay per click advertising you buy your way to the top of the search engine results. You may recognize these paid listings as "sponsored links" or "sponsored ads" and appear next to, and sometimes, above the natural search engine results. The great thing about PPC is that you only pay when the user clicks on the ad.

Pay per click (PPC) positioning is the easiest and quickest way to get traffic to your new site. While there are many PPC sites, there are only a handful of PPC search engines that are worth targeting at all, so the competition can be high. Knowing how much to bid for a click is a vital when selecting potential keywords for your campaign. If you can bid to be in the top 3 positions, your website be plastered all over the internet, almost instantly!

Creating Your Pay Per Click Marketing Campaign

The most important part of a successful PPC campaign is determining the best keywords to use. Many people think targeting the most popular keywords phrases for their market is the best way to an effective campaign. The most common keywords for your site are not usually the best ones to use for PPC search engines because there is usually too much competition.

You also want to avoid broad phrases where you don’t know what the searcher is looking for. This will only bring lots of the wrong kind of traffic. If it's not specific enough, you’ll only end up paying for every click that comes to your site, costing you a fortune with poor results.

Pay Per Click Targeted Website Traffic Means Results

The key to a successful PPC campaigns is to find as many targeted, low competition keywords and phrase. In this way, you can draw targeted traffic from keyword phrases that won't cost you a fortune. While picking keywords that will bring targeted traffic to your site is the core of a successful pay per click campaign, in the end, the integral factor to your PPC campaign is ad copy. Knowing your audience online habits and how they respond to ads is critical to your overall PPC campaign. By writing clearly targeted and focused PPC ads, in no time you’ll be mastering the art of pay per click advertising.

World Web Works is a professional partner and authorized consultant with both Yahoo and Google.

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