Jul.23.2008
11:28 pm
by Angela Booth
Affiliate marketing with PPC mastery Part 1
Many affiliate marketers use Pay Per Click (PPC) to make great incomes online. In this new series, you’ll become acquainted with what PPC is, and how to make it work for you.
Getting started with PPC
PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click - 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’s web page.
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 - 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).
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