Thursday, January 1, 2009

Exploring Pay Per Click Programs As An Alternative To Adwords

By Brian Basch

A new idea in advertising has burst onto the scene of Internet marketing with the appearance of Pay Per Click advertising. The search engines have finally managed to find a way to make a profit with online marketing. Let me explain how this can be done.

Let us pause for a moment to reflect on the way advertising used to be done. You would simply place an ad with a company, pay them for running it and it would be exposed to many people.

It could be shown in a variety of different places; newspaper, TV, radio and online, on a website page. Somebody decided that there could be a far better way to advertise online. It is true that not all Internet marketing methods give the same exposure; some methods give a lot of views, others less. For instance a website with heavy traffic will give your ad a great deal of exposure, so why not develop a system that pays the website host and advertiser?

If you raised prices for the advertiser you would risk losing customers. In fact it could also be detrimental to the credibility of your business. Customers and sales would be lost and your competitors will start to get the edge on you.

Pay per click advertising seemed to be the perfect solution. It is very simple to do; the advertiser builds an ad around a keyword and submits it to a search engine. When the keyword is inserted it will bring up the ad along with the search results. The advertiser to pays a nominal sum to the search engine for every click through from a visitor. Both advertiser and search engine will profit.

Search engines saw the potential in this venture and took it to another level. They permitted advertisers to bid higher on the keywords in order to obtain better positions. Of course the highest bid would then get the best position and have their ad viewed more often. This ensured that advertisers and search engines could increase profits.

There is a tendency to ignore the other pay per click engines and rely only on Google and Google Adwords. But it is always good to know that there are alternatives. Some of the more well known ones are Microsoft Adcenter, Yahoo Search and Search Feed. In order to turn a profit it would be wise for marketers to try out alternative engines apart from Google and Google Adwords.

Using many different strategies to bring in traffic is a smart thing to do. Using multiple pay per click methods will help to boost your business and help you to make substantial profits. - 16036

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