A significant number of high quality website traffic can be a direct result of utilizing a PPC search engine internet marketing campaign. PPC stands for "pay per click" and is a form of advertising that many people utilize in their online marketing and promotional needs. Quite possibly the greatest advantage of using PPC search engine Internet marketing is that you are only required to pay for visitors that actually click through to your website and not for people who simply look at your ad.
Here's why it's so powerful.
You are charged a set fee for ad exposure with most traditional methods of advertising. The people that view your ad may never even acting on your ad either. As a result, you may not make any money from your ad campaign. However, you still have to pay that fee, regardless of whether anyone responds to your ad or not. With pay per click marketing however, you increase the changes of generating a profitable campaign because you are only paying for people that actually respond to your ad by clicking on it. This is why you have great opportunity for drastically increased sales since your traffic will be very high quality and targeted.
The most effective form of pay per click marketing is through pay per click search engine marketing. Different web sites are shown in the search engine results every time a user searches for a new phrase. Along with the search results, several "sponsored results" will appear as well, usually on the right side of the screen. These sponsored results are examples of pay per click advertising. If the user clicks on one of the ads, the advertiser is charged a set fee. The fee greatly varies depending on the budget that advertisers set for their chosen keyword or phrase.
Some keywords cost very little to receive traffic (10 cents a click or less). Other keywords can cost an arm and a leg so to speak. There are keywords that go for as high as $25 a click. The price you pay for keywords is completely dependent upon what other advertisers are willing to pay for a keyword at a given point of time. Therefore, when considering any pay per click program, you want to consider what the average cost per click are for the top placements for your keywords and phrases.
In addition to search engine pay per click, there are also pay per click banners and pay per click web page placements. Similar to PPC search engine marketing, advertisers are only required to pay for prospects who actually click on their ad. These types of PPC results are not as high quality and targeted as using pay per click programs through search engines. A prospect is in a different state of mind when he or she types in a search word or phrase and clicks on an ad, versus visiting a web site and clicking on an ad or banner. All can work as long as you can make more money than you spend on the ad. Just understand that all pay per click marketing is not the same.
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Response to: The Golden Age of Digital Marketing - 23 July 2008
By: Ray | 25-07-2008
89N The Golden Age of Digital Marketing - 23 July 2008
It was with much interest that I read the report on the Netimperative Directors? Dinner discussing the golden age of digital marketing.
I completely agree that the marketing profession faces many challenges in its ambition to be taken seriously at the highest levels of business. As the various speakers highlighted, one of the key challenges is the perception of what marketing is.
Recent research carried out for The Chartered Institute of Marketing by Ipsos MORI revealed that 73 per cent of working marketers surveyed believed there was a large gap between the reality of what marketing does and how it is seen by other parts of the business.
Until marketing is recognised as a key driver of value in organisations, it will struggle to gain the respect of other professional business colleagues. However, marketing must earn that respect.
As highlighted by several speakers, marketers must reach out to colleagues in other functions and those at a senior level, and communicate clearly with them the value they create for the organisation, in terms they understand ? which in boardrooms is predominantly financial.
The Institute continues to promote the profession and attempt to change attitudes towards marketing in the wider business community. It has established links with various government departments to promote professional marketing, and has developed professional marketing standards that employers can benchmark their employees against.
The drive towards proper recognition and respect for the vital role marketing has to play in today?s organisations has to start with greater accountability and clearly demonstrating the value marketers create.
I am in no doubt that digital marketing, with its greater measurability, will be in the vanguard of marketers? increasing acceptance at the top table.
Ray Jones
The Chartered Institute of Marketing
25 July 2008
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