Pay Per Click (PPC) – A Permanent Addition To Your Marketing Mix?
Pay per click (PPC) advertising is the hottest and perhaps most effective way for many Internet advertisers to reach their intended audiences. It is a marketing device that should be included in the tool box of any company which has or plans to have a presence on the net. The keys to pay per click are deciding what type of clicks to use and how to make sure that each click targets the audience a company wants to reach.
PPC advertising falls into two categories: Pay per click search engines and ads that potential customers can click on (so called clickable ads). Search engines based on the PPC model charge an advertiser a fee for the ranking it receives when a particular term (keyword) is searched. The more popular a keyword is the higher the price for an advertisers website to appear on the returned search list. Advertisers who pay the most will have their products and services appear at the head of the list given back to the person who initiated the search. Clickable ads appear on websites which have content similar to that of the ads. A customer perusing the website will see advertisements...