When you are getting started in the world of ecommerce, one of the first things you need to think about is getting traffic to your web page. Much like a physical storefront, a website is useless unless people are actually browsing through it, so it is important to think about how to get people to take a look at your webpage. Pay-per-click is one way to do this, but before you start investing the money into this unique form of advertising, there are a few things that you should know. PPC advertising can be a little confusing at first glance, so take a look below to clear up some of the more common misconceptions.
The first thing to remember is that PPC advertising will not increase your ranking on search engines like Google or Yahoo. No matter how many times your ad appears, you will not get a better ranking when people do searches looking for your product. The only way to increase your natural ranking on the search engines is to put more relevant and key-word optimised information on your web page itself.
For services like Google Ads, where your link appears next to the natural search results, you may wonder if people ever click on the sponsored links, especially...