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Your website, with well defined objectives and strategies, can be your most effective marketing tool. However, a significant part of your internet marketing strategy should revolve around driving targeted traffic to your site. Without a steady flow of traffic, your website can’t help increase your revenues.

In future issues, I will be sharing lots of tips and ideas to get targeted traffic to your site. This time, I’ll start with the easiest and quickest method: pay per click advertising.

These ads appear at the top and the right column of the search results. Advertisers pay to have them displayed in this prominent place, when people search for a certain term related to the advertiser’s product.

A small fee is charged each time someone clicks on the ad, based on the amount the advertiser bid for each click. The higher bidders appear higher in the search.

Pay per click advertising on search engines is one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your website because the searchers are definitely interested in your topic. The down side, of course, is that it will cost you money.

However, depending on your product or service, it’s probably worth it to spend a portion of your marketing budget this way, if it will significantly and easily increase your revenues. It works best if you have a small and well defined niche, and do keyword research to find the related terms people are searching for. More info on keyword research will be included in future issues of Grow Your Biz.

Google AdWords (http://adwords.google.com) is the most user-friendly and painless way to get targeted traffic to your website. It’s a good one to start with to learn the ropes.

Yahoo Search Marketing also offers pay-per-click ads, and is currently offering a $50 credit to new clients. With proper management, you can get lots of quality traffic for $50. I didn’t see this offer on their main site (http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/), but if you google “yahoo search marketing 50 credit”, you will find the offer.

Finally, here’s an inexpensive way to get your feet wet with pay per click advertising, while driving lots of targeted traffic to your site: check out http://7search.com/. You can get the word out about your website for as little as one penny per click!

This company works with search engines other than Google, Yahoo and MSN. These search engines get about 35% of all searches on the internet, which is a lot of searches, as you know.

They also work with affiliate websites. Therefore, you may get your ad on the search engines when people search for your keywords, or on websites related to your keywords. You can get started with as little as $25.

Regardless of the vehicle you choose for your pay-per-click campaign, target more specific keyword phrases, for less expensive and more targeted traffic.

For example, I don’t know about you, but if I’m looking for printer cartridges, I will search for HP deskjet F380 inkjet printer cartridge, instead of just printer cartridge.

My results will be filtered for me more effectively if I’m more specific. These “long tail” keyword phrases will be cheaper to bid on because they don’t get as many searches, and you will get more targeted traffic. People who are very specific in their searches usually know exactly what they want, and are ready to make the purchase. With general searches, people are just exploring.

Track your results. Make sure you figure out how many sales resulted from the clicks you got from your pay per click campaign. Experiment with the wording in your ad, to improve conversion rates (the number of people who actually do business with you, after clicking on your ad.).

Once you figure out how to improve conversion rates, you may be ready to add to your pay per click repertoire, with Google Adwords and Yahoo search marketing, for even more traffic. After all, if the ads are significantly increasing your revenues, you can spend a little more to increase them even more!

Emilie Nottle is a Graphic/Web Designer, Online Strategist, and Principal at Zooop Design - a full service graphic and web design firm. If you’re ready to make the most of your online presence, automate your marketing efforts, and grow your biz, subscribe to her free monthly eZine here.

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Buying traffic through Adwords (or other forms of paid advertising) is generally considered to be the most efficient method for acquiring targeted visitors. But there is a down side: if your website is not properly designed for making sales, you could lose a lot of money and you could lose it very fast.

With paid traffic, the results are immediate, offering results in the hundreds of thousands of visitors provided the keywords and marketing plan are managed properly. You determine whether the traffic flows or not, much like turning a switch.

Paying for traffic is very popular. When a marketer is making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in revenue, he or she most likely achieved their goals by paying for traffic.

The thing to remember with Google Adwords is that you need to be able to change visitors to your site into customers before you even begin marketing. Once a visitor reaches your site, if it isn’t geared toward making sales, you’ll lose what could have been a customer, and your Adwords campaign (and especially our money) will have been a wasted effort.

If you are going to pay for advertising, it is essential that your website is just right. Even the smallest detail can turn off a visitor, losing them and your investment, forever.

Let’s say that you have your website in its optimal form and you’re ready to buy PPC traffic. How do you gauge a proper return on investment?

When you can spend $20 and bring in $24 in sales, is that considered good? Incredibly so! That’s a good 20% return on investment!

Before you balk at the idea of making “just” four dollars, take a moment to think about these numbers: you pay $1,000 for advertising and return $1,200! Or how about investing $10,000 in clicks and returning $12,000? With a higher amount of money invested, 20% suddenly sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? A return of even 10% is terrific on this type of campaign.

Online marketing’s biggest challenge is quality web traffic because traffic is what leads to sales. Without sales, there can’t be cash flow or profit. Most small enterprises look for as much free traffic for their website as they can find, while larger companies simply buy traffic through Google Adwords.

The primary benefit of paying for advertising online is glaringly obvious: it can be scaled! If you can find profitable keywords for your product or service, then you can increase the amount of traffic almost infinitely. Traffic and profits are almost immediate with Google Adwords, while the use of SEO can take much longer to produce results.

Would you believe there are some people who put in over $10,000 each day with PPC? Rest assured they are making a very nice return on their investment. Most marketers don’t even have to ship an actual product or interface with customers because they are simply pushing traffic.

Before you get started with Adwords, you should learn as much as you can either from a professional or by researching on your own. Most marketers start out with free traffic sources before switching to paid traffic. If you think you are ready, you may want to move forward with Adwords.

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If you are going to buy traffic in any form, it is critical that everything about your website is perfect. The design, the layout, and the pitch must be top notch otherwise you will be wasting money.

Google Adwords should only be used once your website is flawless. How do you gauge a proper return on investment?

Let’s say you spend $20 for your campaign and it brings in $24. Worth it? Of course! Your return comes to 20%!

Before you say, “who cares about a measly four bucks!” imagine this: what if you paid $1,000 in clicks and returned $1,200 in revenue? No matter how you look at it, 20% is a great return, especially if you are investing at higher amounts, such as $10,000, which would return $12,000. If your return were even 10%, it is an excellent rate.

Quality web traffic is the toughest part of online marketing because without traffic you can’t make any sales. And sales are the only way to make a profit. Small business owners and entrepreneurs struggle with finding free traffic for their sites, while the big guys just buy it through Google Adwords.

The primary benefit of paying for advertising online is glaringly obvious: it can be scaled! Traffic can be enhanced to boundless levels after you have found keywords that are connected with your business. Traffic and profits are almost immediate with Google Adwords, while the use of SEO can take much longer to produce results.

New visitors can be acquired most efficiently through paid advertising, such as Google Adwords. But there is a down side: if your website is not properly designed for making sales, you could lose a lot of money and you could lose it very fast.

With paid traffic, the results are immediate, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands if you have the right keywords and marketing plan. As with a light switch, you can turn the traffic on and off.

Buying traffic is extremely popular. When a marketer is making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in revenue, that person is probably buying their advertising.

The trick with Google Adwords is knowing how to convert your website visitors into customers before you actually begin your marketing campaign. Once a visitor reaches your site, if it isn’t geared toward making sales, you’ll lose what could have been a customer, and your cash spent on Adwords traffic will be wasted.

Would you believe there are some people who put in over $10,000 each day with PPC? Rest assured they are making a very nice return on their investment. Most of these marketers aren’t even working directly with customers or shipping a product. All they are doing is pushing traffic by direct-linking to a product.

Before you get started with Adwords, you should learn as much as you can either from a professional or by researching on your own. In the beginning, marketers often spend their time and effort on free traffic before moving on to using paid traffic. If you think you are ready, you may want to move forward with Adwords.

I’m serious when I tell you there are millions of dollars to be made in paid advertising. People from all walks of life have found great success by taking advantage of Adwords.

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Advertising budgets are being cut, marketers are being pressured, costs are going up. This is particularly true on the Internet and with PPC campaigns. The effectiveness of a PPC campaign is dependent on the following four events, the impression rate, your ad position, the click through rate (CTR), and the conversion rate.

Determining the balance among ad position, impression rate, or clicks can assist you in making your PPC advertising campaign successful.

Let’s first, though, examine how Google will display the results of your sponsored ads.

1) Your daily budget controls the impressions of your ad

Your ad impression or frequency at which they appear may be diminished if budgeted too low. Being seen is important to you ad campaign and impressions are critical.

2) Rank Number decides where your ad is positioned

Your rank number is important as the higher it is, the higher up on the page your ad is positioned. The formula for rank number is as follows:

CPC (Cost Per Click) x CTR (Click Through Rate) x Ad Quality = Rank Number

We now leave Google behind and see what you can do to enhance your PPC campaign performance.

3) Increase daily budget

In order to receive maximum exposure of your ad you need to make sure it appears when your keyword is searched. If it does not appear frequently enough, you probably need to increase your daily budget for your keyword.

A 50% increase in your budget would still leave you a safe margin. Since you only pay on clicks through and not impressions, you can increase your impressions while maintaining your desired budget. An example would be: You have put aside $10.00 per day to actually spend for your Google ad budget. You could bid $15.00 if you must for more impressions, but if you don’t reach a click through rate that exceeds your budgeted $10.00 you are still within your budget. When you do this make sure to monitor your activity daily to make sure you do not exceed what you can afford.

4) Use keywords to improve your delivery.

Your PPC campaign can consist of one or more AdGroups. Google set up AdGroups based on a collection of keywords and ads that display when certain keywords are searched on Google’s search engine. It can be the case that even though you have a large collection of keywords in your AdGroup, only a few of them results in your ad being displayed. Your daily budget controls the number of impression your ad can produce. However, these impressions are competing with other AdGroups and individual keywords, so your budget might not be sufficient for some of those keywords.

You might consider setting up a new AdGroup and extract some of your keywords to use in another ad campaign that produces low impressions so that your ad is assured to be among those displayed when one those keywords are searched.

5) Select the right AdGroup

Besides keywords you also select an AdGroup when setting up your PPC campaign, and like the keywords mentioned above, different AdGroups produce different results. Splitting your ad campaign to include different groups can help the frequency of your ad impressions.

6) Optimize your clicks

If you find that one of your PPC ad campaigns is producing unwelcome visitors or clicks, you can improve you ROI by reducing your Max CPC and /or your ad position. You can use the savings to increase your bid on targeted keywords that are doing well.

7) Your ad should target your market

All you have done so far will be for naught if you do not satisfy your visitor. Your carefully chosen keywords have delivered you a potential customer. It’s now up to you to sell them your goods or services, have them download that white paper, or sign up for that free newsletter, have them do what your web site is about. Your landing page needs communicate exactly what your ad implied. Make sure your goods or services are what you promised in your ad. An advertised sale or discount should be prominently displayed. When you visitor shows up and finds what they have been searching for you want to be the web site that can deliver it.

It takes work and testing and then more work to make your PPC ad campaign produce that which you expected, make you more money than you spend. You would not have signed up for that campaign if you had not wanted to make a profit, it’s there for you if you work for it.

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Managing a successful Google AdWords campaign can be a much more difficult undertaking than many advertisers would have you believe. It is not merely a matter of looking at a keyword and then creating a three line ad using it (how many of us have seen those ads that you could make hundreds of dollars a day by writing three lines of text?) but instead really requires carefully comparing costs and expenses, bids and sales, and constantly supervising the advertisements in circulation to make changes as soon as possible.

The deciding factor of an AdWords campaign is often found in the position of each ad as compared to other ads utilizing the same keyword. The reason for this is that most keyword searches deliver hundreds of pages of results, particularly the popular ones. The only way to make a profit is to draw in the greatest possible pool of buyers, and the only way to draw in a large number of potential buyers is to ensure that an ad is in a visible location.

Since the average web surfer has an attention of approximately five to ten pages it is essential that the ad in question be among these first five to ten pages. Since almost all keywords are going to have more than one advertisement making use of them (any less would result in a keyword so obscure that only one in a million browsers would select it, and while that one browser would probably make a purchase it is not enough to justify all of the production costs) the one at the top of the list is going to be the one whose creator is willing to pay the greatest sum of money per click.

The process of bidding on a keyword is a tricky one. It is essential that the advertiser take into consideration not only the amount of money which their competitors are building but the amount of money they have at their disposal to spend. A pay per click advertising campaign, particularly one using a popular keyword and located at the top of the Sponsored Links is going to generate a large potential of false leads in between sales. The ends must justify the means. If an ad can only be clicked one hundred times before the advertising budget is reached there are probably only going to be ten sales made. Unless those ten sales justify the amount of money spent on the campaign (as in the case of real estate) it is probably not going to be sufficient.

Careful tracking of the number of successful leads brought in by an ad is important as well. An ad which is generating a great deal of false interest (it is being clicked but no sales are being made) is going to need to be pulled out of circulation and altered, either through a reformatting of the ad or a selection of a totally different keyword. Which ever the case, micromanagement is the key factor in a successful AdWords campaign.

Learn more about building successful pay per click advertising campaigns with Google, Yahoo and MSN at www.my-adwords-manager.com. With over 25 years marketing and advertising experience, Dennis Rosenberg creates and manages pay per click campaigns for a variety of products and services.

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The success of Google is based on its ability to deliver relevant results to searchers and that includes both organic results (the natural results that appear in the left column) and sponsored results (the Google AdWords ads that appear in the right column) on the search engine results page.

To create the most effective Google AdWords advertising, it is important to not just consider your desired output (the ad itself) but to first focus on the users input: what keyword or keyword phrase is the user entering into the search engine?

Here are three simple steps to insure you are choosing the best keywords for effective advertising with Google AdWords:

Step 1: Brainstorm and Research Your List of Keywords

What are the obvious keywords for your product or business? Make a list of as many keywords as you can possibly come up with. Think of keywords like lottery tickets: the more you have, the greater your chance of winning the prize (in this case, the prize is your prospective customers finding you).

Once you’ve thought of as many keywords as you can on your own, ask some of your current customers what words they would type into Google if they were looking for a product or business like yours. With this method, you may be surprised to learn some search terms you had not previously considered.

To expand your potential list even further, use the free Google AdWords Keyword Tool (find it by Googling “Google Keyword Tool”). By using this tool, Google will be happy to help you quickly and easily expand your list of relevant keywords.

Step 2. Build Your List of “Negative” Keywords

Let’s face it: the real goal is customers, not just traffic. Think of what search words users might enter for which you would not want your ad to show. As an example, for many businesses, “free” is a search term for which you don’t want your ads to appear.

Another example is this: if you sold baseball bats, you would probably want the word “vampire” as a negative keyword to make sure that people searching for “vampire bats” would not be shown your ads.

These are called “negative” keywords, and using them wisely will help reduce your unqualified traffic and thereby reduce your advertising costs without losing revenue. Consider which negative keywords you can use to better qualify who sees your ads.

Step 3. Refine Your List with Buying Key Phrases

Now it’s time to focus your list to the most profitable and highest converting keywords. For example, if you were selling brake repair services in Atlanta, which keyword phrase would you rather show your ad for: “brake repair” or “brake repair Atlanta”?

I think you will agree that with just the addition of the one word “Atlanta”, this search is much more focused and it is far more likely that this searcher is actually looking to purchase brake repair service rather than just researching the topic of brake repair. Think about how you can expand your particular keyword phrases to make them more targeted to searchers who are actually looking to buy your product or service, rather than just gathering information.

In summary, the most important part of any advertising campaign is to ensure that the advertising is being directed at the group of consumers most likely to make a purchase (the target audience). Choosing keywords that reflect their needs and the popular search phrases they are using will ensure that the profits of a Google AdWords campaign are maximized with the minimal amount of capital required.

Learn more about building successful pay per click advertising campaigns with Google, Yahoo and MSN at www.my-adwords-manager.com. With over 25 years marketing and advertising experience, Dennis Rosenberg creates and manages pay per click campaigns for a variety of products and services.

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Advertising campaigns in the run up to Christmas can involve substantial budgets. Businesses will pay big money to ensure their products are promoted during the busiest period of the retail calendar. With rapid advances in technology, many companies are realising the huge benefit of targeting customers in cyber space. Pay Per Click (or PPC) search engine optimisation services have become significant players in the media industry for getting products noticed. But what does pay per click actually mean and how can it benefit your company?

As the most popular search engine on the Internet, Google is used by millions around the world to search for websites and information. When you type your request in to Google, it will bring up pages of websites deemed applicable to your search. The websites you see highlighted both at the top of the pages and down the right hand side, are companies who have paid for a pay per click service.

Pay per click advertising can also appear on other search engines such as MSN or Yahoo and more recently Facebook. The company advertised will only pay for the service when someone clicks on their advert and therefore, per click. Logically, the more you pay per click, the higher your site will appear in the search.
So why use a service like this? Pay per click means that the advertiser will always receive traffic from their advertising budget and therefore are making valuable use of their money. The price paid per click depends on a number of factors largely including competitiveness of the terms, bounce rates and click through rates.

The adverts, and therefore the products being advertised, will be linked to relevant phases that customers are likely to search for. As a result, when a customer does click on the advert, the chances are they have an interest in the product already and what the website has to offer. The aim of course once the customer’s attention has been captured, is to direct them to a sale and because results are measureable, it allows the advertisers to monitor their return on investment (ROI).

It is anticipated that twenty percent of all people browsing the internet will click on paid adverts, which is a huge quantity of potential customers. Advertisers may choose to use this type of campaign therefore to help increase brand awareness and make their product well known out in the market. By increasing traffic to your website, advertisers are more likely to generate a profit.

Pay per click campaigns are not limited to huge corporations will endless budgets. Any company, large or small can benefit from the increase in traffic that PPC brings, especially at this time of year. Seasonal trends always lead to extra traffic on the internet. However there are many other key times to launch your advertising campaign such as product launches, if your company wants to promote new services, special offers or even if you are suffering with a loss of profile.

Pay per click is an excellent use of advertising budget and with the increasing popularity of instant access to the internet through mobile for example, using search engines to source information is becoming part of everyday life. It’s an excellent way to reach a huge target market and make a profit in the process.

Dominic Donaldson is an expert in Search Engine Optimisation.
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The recent victory by Barack Obama in his bid for President of the United States made history, but in more ways than one. The obvious one is that he will become the first African-American president in history. The less obvious point is that he used a powerful tool to win the election that has never been used in that context before - Internet Marketing.

Yes, Internet Marketing won the election for Obama. And Internet Marketing cost McCain the presidency.

How?

Well, quite simply, Obama’s team saw the power of the Internet. They saw the power of viral marketing, and they used it. In the not-so-recent past, any grassroots political movement needed a tremendous amount of organization, money, and time in order to make a difference. And make no mistake about it, Obama’s supporters were grassroots all the way - after all, the Democratic Party establishment had propped up Hillary Clinton as their candidate of choice. The DNC and their big money was originally behind Clinton. Therefore, Obama’s people had no choice but to go grassroots.

By doing so, they’ve proven to us that grassroots movements are now more powerful than ever - they may now be the most powerful variety of political movement - all because of Internet Marketing.

How did this happen?

Well, let’s take a step back and look at the business world to understand just what Obama’s people did with the Internet that made such a difference.

If you were to ask someone on the street who the biggest, wealthiest, and most powerful companies in America are, they’d undoubtedly start thinking of Fortune 100 companies. General Electric. General Motors. IBM. And so on. And yet, if you look at the current situation in the overall economy and in the financial markets, it’s painfully obvious that these big corporations - GM in particular comes to mind - are in big trouble. They are facing bankruptcy and are begging the government for billions of dollars in bailout money just to stay in business.

Why?

Because they failed to use the viral nature of Internet Marketing to surpass the competition. And they’re getting their pants beat off by small, swift, young companies that are based online and that use Internet Marketing as the centerpiece of their overall marketing strategy.

With that in mind, we can consider longtime politicians like John McCain to be establishment-type dinosaurs, just like those struggling Fortune 100 companies. And Barack Obama’s campaign - whether you agree with him politically or not - is comparable to the young, swift, Internet-centric companies that are taking over our economy.

Now let’s get to the point here. If you’re a business owner, a salesperson, a prospective entrepreneur, or just about anyone who desire success in today’s world, you need to understand that Internet Marketing is your ticket to success. Even if you run or plan to start a traditional offline business, for example a florist or an auto repair shop, your ticket to lots of customers and plenty of ongoing business lies in Internet Marketing. If you don’t, you’ll be defeated just like John McCain, GM, and those other old-world dinosaurs are constantly defeated.

Learn how to use the power of Internet Marketing and viral marketing online. It is the only sure way to business success in today’s competitive, changing world!

Frank Rumbauskas is a New York Times bestselling author and a Google-Certified AdWords Professional. Founder of FJR Advisors, LLC, he has created several highly successful businesses using AdWords alone. Click here to download 10 chapters of Frank’s powerful Google AdWords system.

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Using the internet for local businesses can be a challenge. This is mainly because the internet is world wide, yet you only need an audience from just a particular territory. It gets even worse when you use PPC and have to pay for the traffic or visitors coming to your site. Untargeted visitors mean you spend money on visitors who have no hope of becoming customers.

Again, we will use Google’s PPC, Adword as the example by the fact that it is the leading PPC and probably the most advanced. Adword gives four main ways in which you can specifically target your audience, nearly anywhere in the world.

The first is the use of keyword matching. Keyword matching helps you as an advertiser to specifically target visitors that query particular terms.

For example, if you market a foundation that offers doctoral scholarships, then you want your ads to appear every time someone searches for “doctoral scholarships”; and similar terms; and not any other kinds of scholarships. With keyword matching, you are able to select the exact keyword terms that you would want your ads to appear to.

The second means of specifically targeting your prospects is by use of location targeting. You can literally target your adverts to over 100 countries in the world. This means if your ads only appeal to a Kenyan audience, then you can show your adverts only in Kenya.

A good example is for the Payday Loans business. These are short terms loan of about two weeks that are offered to citizens in the U.S, Canada, U.K and Australia based on ones payday check. It is a no hassle personal loan requiring only proof of a paycheck to get.

However companies that offer these services are very specific in their offers. They are confined to their countries of operations. For such a company allowing their adverts to show when someone searches for “payday loans” in Kenya is really a waste of money as a Kenyan is really an untargeted audience.

The third is language. Adword does not translate adverts. So if you write an ad in English and elect for it to show in China, the advert will still show in English. However if you writer your ad in Spanish or Swahili for that matter and elect for it to show based on language, the ad will only show to the Spanish or Swahili speaking nations.

Even more importantly, the google system will detect the default language of the user and display the appropriate advert. This is handy in reaching a market that shares a language.

The fourth and last is targeting using specified websites. This is called site-targeting. You can choose to have your advert to display in specific websites.

For example, Mchogwano or Mwafrika are sites commonly visited by Kenyan Youth. If your offer particularly appeals to this market you can have your ads specifically showing within this websites. But note that the selected site should be in partnership with Google and hence in its content network.

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PPC or Pay Per Click advertising is an online method of marketing that gives businesses the opportunity to advertise to potential customers who have already shown an interest in their products or services.

This is fundamentally how PPC advertising works; after a client or potential customer types a phrase into a search engine associated with your business, they are then presented with a link to your website.

Typically search engine results are presented in two ways; there are the organic results and sponsored results. The user can recognise the sponsored links as those at the top and the right of the page.

It is the work of PPC specialists to ensure these sponsored links are presented for the correct terms and those keywords that will bring the most business.

When following the organic optimisation process it can take a great deal of time to achieve top rankings in search engines; with PPC these results are achieved far quicker.

Unlike organic results however, the business placing sponsored links on the search engines must pay for each individual that follows their link, hence the term ‘Pay per Click.’

The cost of each click is calculated through a bidding process and understandably the cost relates to the popularity of the search term; for instance the term ‘insurance’ is likely to cost considerably more per click than a term like ‘ice cream.’

It is easy to demonstrate how the PPC process operates, simply type a term such as MP3 player into a search engine and you will be presented with many sponsored links.

These sponsored links are presented in order of how much each company is paying for the advert, although other factors such as relevancy and popularity are also included in calculating paid results.

In the PPC industry Google Adwords and Adsense are frequently used although Yahoo has its own system named Overture.

PPC adverts are not purely presented in search results however; it is also possible to have them placed upon web pages.

The web pages that the advert will be placed upon usually pertain to the keywords that the advert has been created for; for instance a website about technology may have adverts placed upon it adverts for HD televisions or MP3 players.

These adverts are equally successful as those posted in the search engine results and charges for the adverts are calculated in the same way.

As with any advertising campaign the purpose of marketing is to achieve a substantial return on investment (ROI).

To understand how much to spend it is vital to study how much competitors are paying for their adverts; by doing this it is possible to ascertain how much a successful advert will cost.

After the advert has been created it is vitally important to monitor its success; this can be done with the use of software tools that will reveal how many paid click throughs have resulted in sales.

By looking at the ratio of sales to visits it is possible to gain idea of whether the advert has been successful.

Hopefully this article has gone some of the way to explaining how PPC advertising operates and how it actively works towards bringing businesses more trade.

While the article is brief it is intended purely as an introduction to the world of online advertising and how it can be used effectively to considerably increase profits.

Internet marketing expert Thomas Pretty looks into the PPC process and how pay per click advertising can be extremely successful.

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