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		<title>Common PPC Advertising Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 07:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[when creating a PPC Ad, click fraud detection and lack of testing are just few of them. Fixing each of these mistakes mean an extra 70% of revenue and savings of thousands of dollars every month!Below is the list of the most common mistakes marketers make with their PPC advertising campaigns.1. Bidding Broad – Every [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>when creating a PPC Ad, click fraud detection and lack of testing are just few of them. Fixing each of these mistakes mean an extra 70% of revenue and savings of thousands of dollars every month!<br/><br/>Below is the list of the most common mistakes marketers make with their PPC advertising campaigns.<br/><br/>1. <strong>Bidding Broad</strong> – Every industry has their giant keyword that brings the most traffic but there are many more variation of keywords that are also being searched. The more you focus on these keywords, the less you’re going to pay per click. Furthermore, your ads will be ranked higher if the keyword is closer matched. Look at your own website statistics for exact keyword variations people use when searching for your product or service.<br/><br/>2. <strong>The # 1 Spot</strong> – Being the #1 ad in paid search results is not necessarily the best place to be. Furthermore, you would be paying a lot per click. The best ranks in paid search is being #3 (top left side for Google). Being #1 would mean you’ll attract a lot of visitors but remember people do research before they buy online. Hence, you might be remembered last when they are ready to buy.<br/><br/>3. <strong>Geo-Targeting</strong> – Even if what you sell works all over the world, people are more keen on using a local provider or at least a company that recognizes ‘their state’. It’s just a psychological thing. Google and other search engines allow you to geo-target your PPC ads by state. Create 50 ads and drop in the state name inside your ad. You will definitely get a higher click through rate (CTR) and thus a lower CPC.<br/><br/>4. <strong>Losing Relevance on Landing Page</strong> – Whatever you say in your PPC ad repeat it on the landing page where you’re taking your visitors. If your advertising a whopping 60% discount in your ad, you can be sure people are looking for it when they land on your landing page. If they don’t see it they leave!<br/><br/>5. <strong>Getting Rid of Fraud Network</strong> – Every paid search engine, be it Google, Yahoo, MSN has a network to which they distribute your ads. Unfortunately, many of these networks are fraudulent and often do not refer quality traffic. Look into your website statistics and find domain names that brings you traffic with high bounce rate. Usually it will be around 90%. Google allows you to drop these domain names into a ‘negative excluded sites’ folder. Doing this will save you from paying for garbage traffic.<br/><br/>6. <strong>Paying for Negative Keywords</strong> – Google and other search engines allow your to report keywords for which your ads should not be shown. If you’re paying for ‘broad match’ keywords, you’ll see a lot of visit s from a lot of people who’ve typed your keyword with a word ‘free’, ‘jobs’, ‘stock’. You wouldn’t want to be paying for visitors who are not going to pay you a penny for what you sell or offer! Use the ‘negative keyword folder’ to eliminate these worthless clicks.<br/><br/>7. <strong>Not Using Keywords in Ad Copy</strong> – A simple one. Put keywords into your ad copy. Not only will your ad be more relevant but the keywords in it are going to be bold.<br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC Advertising Programs &#8211; a Hitchhikers&#8217; Guide to In-text Advertising</title>
		<link>http://p2pseek.com/2009/04/ppc-advertising-programs-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-in-text-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many great things about the Internet is that every publisher, and in this case size indeed doesn&#8217;t matter, can generate revenues from his web site or blog. You don&#8217;t need years of experience or academic degrees; you don&#8217;t have to be a marketing expert, a savvy webmaster or an advertising wiz; the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>One of the many great things about the Internet is that every publisher, and in this case size indeed doesn&#8217;t matter, can generate revenues from his web site or blog. You don&#8217;t need years of experience or academic degrees; you don&#8217;t have to be a marketing expert, a savvy webmaster or an advertising wiz; the only thing you are required to do, is to explore the various PPC Advertising methods out there, and sign with the ones that are best suited for your website&#8217;s content, look and feel.<br/><br/>As Internet users, we have grown accustomed to the idea that the web&#8217;s development, and the sustainability of free content, requires that page real-estate be divided between content and advertising. We have also discovered that advertising could complement content, by providing additional information, tailored to fit whatever it was that we were looking for. As part of our everyday online experience, we have all clicked on an eye catching banner, a widespread example of display advertising, or on one of the text ads appearing alongside the results of a search query, the best known form of contextual advertising. The newest kid in the PPC advertising block is In-Text Advertising. In-Text is a platform that while preserving the advantages of other forms of advertising, also introduces innovative benefits to publishers, advertisers and users.<br/><br/>So how does this work? A good In-Text Advertising network would first analyze the content of a webpage to determine its topic and discover relevant keywords. Following this analysis, certain keywords within the text, identified as matching an advertiser&#8217;s product or brand, will be linked to a contextually relevant advertisement. When users mouse-over the linked keywords, marked by an easily recognizable double-underline, the ad unit will be launched. The ad will disappear as soon as the mouse is moved away, unless the user clicks on it.<br/><br/>In-Text Advertising changes the rules. In the past if a publisher was interested in increasing his advertising revenues, he was required to allocate additional &#8220;real estate&#8221; for ad placement, an action that could potentially impair his content and deter users. With In-Text a publisher&#8217;s ad-inventory is as vast as his content, since every word in his content could serve as an opportunity for advertisers to communicate with their audience.<br/><br/>Publishers are granted complete control over the placement and number of In-Text ads inserted in their content. Publishers are also able to customize the color of the double-underlined Keywords, in order to differentiate them from regular links and assure that they match the website&#8217;s design. These characteristics of In-Text Advertising guarantee that the publisher remains the sole decision maker regarding his site&#8217;s attributes.<br/><br/>The idea and implementation of In-Text Advertising is similar to product placement in movies. Take a 007 movie as an example, the car James Bond drives, and the watch he wears, are products being advertised by placement. The advantages for the advertisers are self explanatory, but product placement can also support certain aspects of the movie&#8217;s storyline. The luxurious products featured In the 007 movies help position Her Majesty&#8217;s spy as someone who appreciates the finer things in life, a trait that is well in character.<br/><br/>Similarly, the ads inserted by an In-Text Advertising program, into a website&#8217;s existing content, fit it harmoniously and complement the information it already provides. To sum it up, try to hitch an In-Text Advertising program, run it alongside your existing ad units, and you will enjoy a new revenue stream.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS &#8220;CLICK&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services &#8211; the higher the bid, the higher the spot on the search results, the more the people [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services &#8211; 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 &#8220;keyword auctioning&#8221;). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.<br/><br/>PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:<br/><br/>·    Pay per placement<br/><br/>·    Pay per performance<br/><br/>·    Pay per ranking<br/><br/>·    Pay per position<br/><br/>·    Cost per click (CPC)<br/><br/>PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:<br/><br/>1. Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.<br/><br/>2. Creating a keyword list.<br/><br/>3. Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.<br/><br/>4. Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases.<br/><br/>5. Writing out an ad copy.<br/><br/>6. Setting up the &#8216;landing pages&#8217; for your ads.<br/><br/>7. Placing the advertisement in the search engine.<br/><br/>There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business &#8216;online&#8217;. Some of them are listed below:<br/><br/>·    Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly &#8211; they can go &#8216;online&#8217; within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.<br/><br/>·    Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into &#8216;qualified&#8217; people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer &#8211; those who are more likely to become a &#8216;lead&#8217; (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.<br/><br/>·    Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or &#8220;organic&#8221; search engines.<br/><br/>·    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 &#8211; 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).<br/><br/>Below are some important things to consider when planning on a pay per click campaign:<br/><br/>1. Know your product. Take an inventory of the product and/or services that you have to offer (before anything else).<br/><br/>2. Stay within the budget. Determine your daily or monthly budget; and stay with it. This means keeping your budget in mind, avoiding bidding wars if possible.<br/><br/>3. Bid just right. Know how to bid right &#8211; a bid that is too high can exhaust all of your money, while a bid that is too low can make you lose that spot.<br/><br/>4. Watch the bottom line. Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC program &#8211; if you spend more on advertising but have little or no sales at all.<br/><br/>5. Find the right keywords. Decide which keyword phrases to opt and bid for. Do some keyword research, either by actually looking at existing search terms or with the use of online keyword suggestion tools, to know which terms are mostly used when searching for items that are related to your business. Focus on specific keywords, not on general ones.<br/><br/>6. Write effective ads. A good PPC ad is that which can persuade and move a searcher. There are several approaches to this:<br/><br/>·    Discount offers<br/><br/>·    Testimonials<br/><br/>·    Celebrity/famous endorsers<br/><br/>·    Money-back guarantees<br/><br/>·    Free trials or sample offers<br/><br/>·    Freebies<br/><br/>·    Reverse psychology<br/><br/>·    Major benefits (&#8221;Lose weight&#8221;)<br/><br/>·    Direct instructions (&#8221;Click here&#8221;)<br/><br/>7. Maintain a professional-looking site. Your web content should be regularly updated and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. There should be no broken links or images. The website should be simple &#8211; designed in such a way that it will be easy for visitors to navigate and load. Include contact details to create a good impression among potential customers.<br/><br/>Done properly, PPC advertising can be an effective marketing tool that will maximize the return on your investment.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>How Can You Have Cost Effective PPC Advertising?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Unlike search engine optimization techniques, PPC Advertising techniques involves a lot of money. And quite naturally, people are more concerned about their money than about the bid and the benefit that they are making here. This diverts their attention from the actual motive of PPC Advertising. There is a way in which this can be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/>Unlike search engine optimization techniques, PPC Advertising techniques involves a lot of money. And quite naturally, people are more concerned about their money than about the bid and the benefit that they are making here. This diverts their attention from the actual motive of PPC Advertising. There is a way in which this can be controlled and cost effective <strong>PPC Advertising</strong> campaigns can be successfully run.<br/><br/>When a website bids for the ppc campaign, the prime purpose of it&#8217;s bid should be to attain the highest rank and maximum traffic that it can extract from the search engine and not the amount that it is spending on the campaign. In order to attain this objective, the advertisers of the campaign must concentrate on some of the following aspects with keen interest.<br/><br/>When it comes to pay per click advertising, it is important to know your niche area first. By knowing the niche area, we mean that you should be aware of the most popular search keywords that are used in the search engines. The higher the number of keywords and key phrases that you can target your niche audience with, the better is the scope of your search engine listing.<br/><br/>Once you have found about your niche area, your next step towards successful <strong>ppc advertising</strong> is to look for low competitive keywords. This is a trick quite common in paid search listing. The high demand keywords are mostly always running full of bids, which is also so expensive that it might take your advertising budget out of reach. Hence, a much wiser decision is to opt for the lower demand keywords, that can be easily availed and bidding on then too would not be so expensive.<br/><br/>The next important thing is to write interesting and engaging ad texts. When a user comes to the search engines looking for a niche website, and types your bided keyword in the search, your site is obviously reflected. But in order to make him view your site and click on it, it is important to have an attractive and engaging advertisement text. Your ad text must be compelling enough to make the user read it and click on it. The best way to do this is to incorporate a few keywords in the ad text too.<br/><br/>These are just some of the many cost effective advertising techniques that you can incorporate to make your online advertising campaign more profitable.<br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC Advertising for Small Businesses. is it Logical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PPC Management for Small Businesses. Is it Logical?PPC, or Pay Per Click Advertising is the number one way to increase the relevant traffic to your website. If you are interested in running a PPC Advertising Campaign there are a few things you should know and take into consideration before jumping right into it.Do you have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>PPC Management for Small Businesses. Is it Logical?<br/><br/>PPC, or Pay Per Click Advertising is the number one way to increase the relevant traffic to your website. If you are interested in running a PPC Advertising Campaign there are a few things you should know and take into consideration before jumping right into it.<br/><br/>Do you have knowledge of PPC sources? Have you been wondering how to get your ads to appear on the searched on Google, Yahoo, Live and others? The sites you conduct your searches on, each sell their own version of PPC Advertising. Google is to date, the number one search engine providing over eighty percent of all online pay per click advertising. Googles program is called Adwords. Yahoo, MSN, and others have their own versions, each of which you can sign up for on their respective pages by searching for “online pay per click advertising”. This takes a small to medium amount of time to sign up and get your company ready to begin a campaign.<br/><br/>Do you know what keywords to use? Once you have signed up for a PPC Provider, you now need to start setting up which keywords you want your ads to appear for. This is NOT as simple as you may think. You can always put as many keywords in as you can think of, but remember that quantity is not equal to quality. You need to do extensive research on each keyword to find out:<br/><br/>Ø How much the keyword is searched for<br/><br/>Ø How often the keywords is used in an exact match<br/><br/>Ø Where geographically the keywords are searched<br/><br/>Ø What people do once they click a link relevant to the keyword<br/><br/>After researching your keywords you need to concentrate on writing your ads. This is the most important part of your campaign. You want your ads to stand out from the rest without blending in. Remember though, that your ads MUST be relevant to what you are trying to sell or you will be paying for clicks from people who don’t need your product or services. This is a major drawback from using too many irrelevant keywords.<br/><br/>Running the Campaign. Running a successful PPC Campaign requires DAILY maintenance. This is the part that most people disregard when attempting to run an advertising campaign. You need to constantly monitor:<br/><br/>Ø How many times each keyword is searched for<br/><br/>Ø How many times someone clicks on each keyword<br/><br/>Ø The % of each click per display (CTR, click through rate)<br/><br/>Ø How much you are paying for each click<br/><br/>Ø What place is your ad coming up? Top of first page? Pages 1-3?<br/><br/>Ø Would you get a better CTR by paying more per click, but using less keywords?<br/><br/>What I have discussed so far are just the basics of running a PPC Campaign. There are many more technical and detailed and very time intensive processes in running a very productive and cost efficient PPC Campaign. Can you run one by yourself? Yes. Is it worth it? Probably not. The problem here is that most PPC Management companies charge amounts ranging from 500 to 2000 a month, with setup fees ranging from 1000 to 4000 dollars, they are designed to work for large fortune 500 companies or companies with advertising budgets of tens of thousands of dollars a month. If you’re a company with an advertising budget of two, three, or four hundred dollars a month what should you do? Well, you can always use my tips written in this article and try it out for yourself, or you can search for the very few PPC Management companies that are certified by the Ad Providers like Google, MSN, Yahoo which also cater to small businesses.<br/><br/>If you don’t feel like searching around, we recommend using Versatility Marketing Group. Their information can be found at MyPPCManagement.com. Just a hint, their PPC Management plans have no setup fees and range between $99 &#8211; $199 a month with plans in between. They built the company up with the small business and franchise clients in mind. Give them a call and you won’t be disappointed.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC ADVERTISING: HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS &#8220;CLICK&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services &#8211; 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 &#8220;keyword auctioning&#8221;). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.<br/><br/>PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:<br/><br/>·    Pay per placement<br/><br/>·    Pay per performance<br/><br/>·    Pay per ranking<br/><br/>·    Pay per position<br/><br/>·    Cost per click (CPC)<br/><br/>PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:<br/><br/>1. Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.<br/><br/>2. Creating a keyword list.<br/><br/>3. Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.<br/><br/>4. Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases.<br/><br/>5. Writing out an ad copy.<br/><br/>6. Setting up the &#8216;landing pages&#8217; for your ads.<br/><br/>7. Placing the advertisement in the search engine.<br/><br/>There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business &#8216;online&#8217;. Some of them are listed below:<br/><br/>·    Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly &#8211; they can go &#8216;online&#8217; within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.<br/><br/>·    Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into &#8216;qualified&#8217; people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer &#8211; those who are more likely to become a &#8216;lead&#8217; (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.<br/><br/>·    Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or &#8220;organic&#8221; search engines.<br/><br/>·    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 &#8211; 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).<br/><br/>Below are some important things to consider when planning on a pay per click campaign:<br/><br/>1. Know your product. Take an inventory of the product and/or services that you have to offer (before anything else).<br/><br/>2. Stay within the budget. Determine your daily or monthly budget; and stay with it. This means keeping your budget in mind, avoiding bidding wars if possible.<br/><br/>3. Bid just right. Know how to bid right &#8211; a bid that is too high can exhaust all of your money, while a bid that is too low can make you lose that spot.<br/><br/>4. Watch the bottom line. Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC program &#8211; if you spend more on advertising but have little or no sales at all.<br/><br/>5. Find the right keywords. Decide which keyword phrases to opt and bid for. Do some keyword research, either by actually looking at existing search terms or with the use of online keyword suggestion tools, to know which terms are mostly used when searching for items that are related to your business. Focus on specific keywords, not on general ones.<br/><br/>6. Write effective ads. A good PPC ad is that which can persuade and move a searcher. There are several approaches to this:<br/><br/>·    Discount offers<br/><br/>·    Testimonials<br/><br/>·    Celebrity/famous endorsers<br/><br/>·    Money-back guarantees<br/><br/>·    Free trials or sample offers<br/><br/>·    Freebies<br/><br/>·    Reverse psychology<br/><br/>·    Major benefits (&#8221;Lose weight&#8221;)<br/><br/>·    Direct instructions (&#8221;Click here&#8221;)<br/><br/>7. Maintain a professional-looking site. Your web content should be regularly updated and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. There should be no broken links or images. The website should be simple &#8211; designed in such a way that it will be easy for visitors to navigate and load. Include contact details to create a good impression among potential customers.<br/><br/>Done properly, PPC advertising can be an effective marketing tool that will maximize the return on your investment.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>Benefits of PPC Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PPC advertising is now the most preferred mode of internet advertising. With Google Adsense and Yahoo search engine marketing making a mark in the internet more and more people are drawn towards ppc advertising. Advertisers are gradually shifting their focus from traditional advertising to internet advertising where PPC remains a major concern.Advertisers find PPC to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>PPC advertising is now the most preferred mode of internet advertising. With Google Adsense and Yahoo search engine marketing making a mark in the internet more and more people are drawn towards ppc advertising. Advertisers are gradually shifting their focus from traditional advertising to internet advertising where PPC remains a major concern.<br/><br/><strong>Advertisers find PPC to be a convenient mode of advertising for the following reasons.</strong><br/><br/>1. Since the PPC ads are based on keywords which results from a proper keyword research, advertisers get a highly targeted traffic.<br/><br/>2. Advertisers do not have to pay for the ad space. They only pay the publishers or the search engines when they recieve traffic through clicks.<br/><br/>3. Due to various online tools it&#8217;s easier to track the performance of the PPC ads. The advertisers come to know which ad is doing well and which is not.<br/><br/>4. PPC advertising model is a less expensive medium compared to the traditional advertising. Advertisers get to test the market first through PPC advertising and extends his campaign further.<br/><br/>5. PPC campaigns are flexible in nature, owing to their performance traceability. They can be modified or adapted as per the requirement.<br/><br/>6. PPC ads are great way to create brand awareness of the product. If the PPC ads are placed in a high traffic site, more and more people get to see them even though it gets less amount of click. That leaves an impression about the brand in their mind.<br/><br/>PPC campaigns become effective if the keyword research and ad placement are done in a proper way. Advertisers can depend on a good PPC network for complete help and support to run their campaign.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC Advertising for Maximum Web Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business nowadays is doing different kinds of austerity measures when it comes to advertising their products and services. This is because of high rates of placing ads on print and on television. But there is a fast growing approach that businessmen can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>Business nowadays is doing different kinds of austerity measures when it comes to advertising their products and services. This is because of high rates of placing ads on print and on television. But there is a fast growing approach that businessmen can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing.<br/><br/>One tool that is causing internet marketing popularity is PPC advertising. This is a technique used in search engine marketing that requires one to pay a fee every time someone clicks an ad on your website. Usually this placement is done through a bidding process. If you are a top bidder for your keywords/phrases, you are sure to be on the number one spot on all search engines. Just be sure of the effectiveness of your ad copy to get the most number of clicks you need for your business.<br/><br/>Here are the benefits of PPC advertising are:<br/><br/>1.    You need not be a genius in computer and technology to be able to run this ad campaign.<br/><br/>2.    Immediate results are seen after a few days.<br/><br/>3.    No need to make a website conform to the SEO rules.<br/><br/>4.    Nothing to lose even if you do not top the pages of different search engines. You can still always choose PPC advertising.<br/><br/>5.    You can make use any search engine available.<br/><br/>6.    You can type in any keyword you like.<br/><br/>Cons of PPC advertising includes:<br/><br/>1.    Fixed payments every month to the search engine you choose.<br/><br/>2.    Pay for each click received by your website. At times, visitors are just competitors or people playing pranks on search engines. This hassle wastes money you put in to this advertising.<br/><br/>3.    Inability to pay for the fees next month would mean removal of your website on the paid listings.<br/><br/>4.    This advertising can only be used temporarily because it is difficult to handle in the long run.<br/><br/>5.    Pay-per-click pricing can be costly for long periods of time, therefore, this should be stopped after an ad campaign.<br/><br/>But how exactly PPC advertising can increase traffic, leads and sales?<br/><br/>PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC. All visitors of your website are already considered as a qualified consumer or buyer of your product. PPC advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.<br/><br/>INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. PPC search engines enable you to get your desired results fast. They will have your website live within just a few hours which means immediate increase in sale.<br/><br/>CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS. This is to get your website on top of the sponsored search results for free. You just have to choose the keywords related to your site and business and place them within your web pages. After this, you are done.<br/><br/>PPC advertising enables advertisers to control their advertising campaigns. Advertisers have effectively targeted their audience and set their own price per click. PPC advertising networks provide the platform to identify the desired audience by geographic setting, topic and industry.  These networks have a list of websites of the publishers where the ads will be placed.<br/><br/>Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per click limit is working for a certain advertiser. If its still competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists or does it generate sales? Of course, if the advertiser made the highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the search engine. These networks too provide protection for the advertisers against click fraud. This advertising set-up allows advertisers to set a daily budget for his ads, thus, less spending for unnecessary clicks. Advertiser will never go over his budget.  <br/><br/>In PPC advertising, what are important are the keywords and phrases. You have to select at least ten &#8220;very specific&#8221; keywords that would give you the best traffic in the search. Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. Tell the truth about your product or service and do not lie. Good thing if your product or service will not disappoint those that are relying on your ad&#8217;s promise &#8211; but what if it did otherwise? Important too is the clarity of the ad. Do not use very vague languages. Include important details like the price.<br/><br/>You should also remember to budget your bids. Do not go overbidding because you will only lose your money and do not go so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. Check your profit against your spending. If you see no progress then most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.<br/><br/>More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it will continue to grow faster than any online advertising techniques. From revenues of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5 billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well from $0.29 to $0.36.<br/><br/>PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to continue in the years to come. For advertisers, this means increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad campaigns in the days to come.<br/><br/>If you want to learn how to use PPC to grow your business check out the resource box below.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>PPC Advertising &#8211; Make it Work for Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PPC stands for Pay Per Click &#8211; a popular advertising technique on the Internet. Found on websites, advertising networks, and especially on search engines, PPC advertising involves sponsored links that are typically in the form of text ads. These are usually placed close to search results, where an advertiser pays a particular amount to visitors [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>PPC stands for Pay Per Click &#8211; a popular advertising technique on the Internet. Found on websites, advertising networks, and especially on search engines, PPC advertising involves sponsored links that are typically in the form of text ads. These are usually placed close to search results, where an advertiser pays a particular amount to visitors who click on these links or banners and land on the advertiser&#8217;s web page.<br/><br/>In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services &#8211; 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 &#8220;keyword auctioning&#8221;). Advertisers would then pay the bidding price every time a visitor clicks through the website.<br/><br/>PPC advertising is also known under the following names/variations:<br/><br/>·    Pay per placement<br/><br/>·    Pay per performance<br/><br/>·    Pay per ranking<br/><br/>·    Pay per position<br/><br/>·    Cost per click (CPC)<br/><br/>PPC advertising is usually done with the following standard procedures:<br/><br/>1. Setting up an account and/or deposit funds.<br/><br/>2. Creating a keyword list.<br/><br/>3. Choosing (and setting up) an account with a PPC search engine.<br/><br/>4. Bidding on the ad placement, including the search result words or phrases.<br/><br/>5. Writing out an ad copy.<br/><br/>6. Setting up the &#8216;landing pages&#8217; for your ads.<br/><br/>7. Placing the advertisement in the search engine.<br/><br/>There are many benefits to Pay Per Click advertising, making it an effective way of promoting a business &#8216;online&#8217;. Some of them are listed below:<br/><br/>·    Get launched immediately. PPC advertisements are implemented very quickly &#8211; they can go &#8216;online&#8217; within an hour after winning the bid and paying for it.<br/><br/>·    Obtain specific, pre-qualified, and quality traffic. PPC provides you with a quality or a well-targeted traffic. Visitors are narrowed down into &#8216;qualified&#8217; people who are actually looking for specific products and/or services that you offer &#8211; those who are more likely to become a &#8216;lead&#8217; (a convert) and complete a transaction (either by buying your product or subscribing to the service that you are offering.<br/><br/>·    Widen your reach. PPC advertising provides additional traffic to your site, aside from the natural or &#8220;organic&#8221; search engines.<br/><br/>·    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 &#8211; 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).<br/><br/>Below are some important things to consider when planning on a pay per click campaign:<br/><br/>1. Know your product. Take an inventory of the product and/or services that you have to offer (before anything else).<br/><br/>2. Stay within the budget. Determine your daily or monthly budget; and stay with it. This means keeping your budget in mind, avoiding bidding wars if possible.<br/><br/>3. Bid just right. Know how to bid right &#8211; a bid that is too high can exhaust all of your money, while a bid that is too low can make you lose that spot.<br/><br/>4. Watch the bottom line. Measure your profit margin against your spending or expenses. Know when to stop and terminate your PPC program &#8211; if you spend more on advertising but have little or no sales at all.<br/><br/>5. Find the right keywords. Decide which keyword phrases to opt and bid for. Do some keyword research, either by actually looking at existing search terms or with the use of online keyword suggestion tools, to know which terms are mostly used when searching for items that are related to your business. Focus on specific keywords, not on general ones.<br/><br/>6. Write effective ads. A good PPC ad is that which can persuade and move a searcher. There are several approaches to this:<br/><br/>·    Discount offers<br/><br/>·    Testimonials<br/><br/>·    Celebrity/famous endorsers<br/><br/>·    Money-back guarantees<br/><br/>·    Free trials or sample offers<br/><br/>·    Freebies<br/><br/>·    Reverse psychology<br/><br/>·    Major benefits (&#8221;Lose weight&#8221;)<br/><br/>·    Direct instructions (&#8221;Click here&#8221;)<br/><br/>7. Maintain a professional-looking site. Your web content should be regularly updated and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. There should be no broken links or images. The website should be simple &#8211; designed in such a way that it will be easy for visitors to navigate and load. Include contact details to create a good impression among potential customers.<br/><br/>Done properly, PPC advertising can be an effective marketing tool that will maximize the return on your investment.<br/><br/>If you would like to EARN CASH RIGHT NOW with some of our great affiliate programs! And generate hundreds of FREE LEADS per week, then visit the website below!<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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		<title>How to Profit From PPC Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>PPC affiliate programs can be a powerful venue to make money from the Internet. A partnership with an affiliate merchant is a win-win situation for the merchant and the affiliate: sales can soar because of exposure and traffic while the affiliate is earning good cash, promoting though PPC advertising.<br/><br/>What is PPC Advertising?<br/><br/>PPC means pay-per-click, wherein you get in partnership with an affiliate company that literally pays you for each sale you make. There are actually two types of PCC affiliate programs &#8211; those who pay a commission based on the number of clicks and the other based on the sales. The pay-per-click scheme is much more popular than pay-per-lead because the affiliate gets paid for each sale made through advertising and provided that your click costs do not go over the product commission, you will profit.<br/><br/>How do I start?<br/><br/>There are many PPC networks, the biggest of which are Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly overture) and Microsoft&#8217;s Live PPC network). You will need an account with either of these. Obviously in today&#8217;s climate Google&#8217;s engine will get far more clicks accounting for well over 70% of all searches done today. This is where you will create your short ad that normally appears on the right hand side of search results. When someone clicks on your ad, you will pay a small amount for the click which has provided relavent traffic to your sales website.<br/><br/>Do I need a website?<br/><br/>Yes, once you have an account you will need a website, or webspace of some sorts to promote your product. This can be either through registering your domain name or creating a free blog using services such as Squidoo, Blogger or Wordpress. Your website will be where your customer will click through to and where you will make the sale, provided you have convinced the customer. How do I profit?<br/><br/>It&#8217;s important to do certain calculations and tests when using PPC as you can easily lose money. Basically, the total number of clicks that you get and pay for, should never exceed the commissions made from sales. So for example if a commission or profit from a sale is $20, and each click costs you $0.20, then that would allow you to get 200 clicks before you reached your commission level. Hence if you hadn&#8217;t made a sale in 200 clicks you wouldn&#8217;t have made a profit. But if you have had just 100 clicks and have made a sale then you would have profited $10, as your click cost where $10 (100 x $0.20) and your product commission was $20.<br/><br/>$20 commission minus $10 PPC costs equals $10 profit!<br/><br/>So there you have it. PPC can be quite a difficult game to win at, but with the right education, you can make it into an quick and easy automated money generator for your business, provided you do the right calculations and tests to ensure you have your best campaigns running. Educate yourself further on PPC Advertising and other Internet Marketing Tools and Techniques by visiting the Original Wealthy Affiliate University.<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
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