Sunday, November 30, 2008

Discovering How To Bid On Keywords

By Brian Basch

It is critical to select the precise keywords for your ads. Successful marketers have learned how to do this well. It is not really that hard to do. Keyword research is the key to your success.

There is another important factor in your pay per click advertising campaigns that does not revolve around keywords. This is to do with the searchers themselves. They rarely look beyond the first 5-10 pages of their search results.

In order to be seen an ad must be positioned within the first 5-10 pages of the search results. How can you do this? By paying more money.

If you have figured out Google Adwords this section may be repetitive. However if you are new to this method of marketing this is important to know. Adwords can be thought of as a large auction. There are many people bidding on frequently searched keywords, but few on little known ones.

So be aware that you are not the only person utilizing a certain keyword. How can these search engines determine where to place an ad? Because Adwords works by pay per click the highest bidder on a key word will earn the rights to a top position. These high paid keywords are welcomed by the search engines and will always gain top positions.

It can be time consuming finding the right blend of bids and keywords, it might take some profits and losses as you experiment. Not every click will produce sales; in fact conversions are often only 10% of the click ratio. Price of product should be taken into account and of course your budget, when deciding how much to bid.

Bidding is almost as important as choosing the right keywords for your campaign. This is because if you do not have a good placement for your ad you will not draw enough traffic or sales. The road to a successful campaign is to take your time when you bid.

While working out the details of your Adword campaign be sure to keep these tactics in mind. Consider this, when you build a great pulling ad it is no good condemning it into oblivion. That is just a waste of time and money.

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Friday, November 28, 2008

Why Pay Per Click Beats the Yellow Pages Hands Down

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If you are wondering whether or not pay per click is better than a Yellow Pages ad for getting customers aware of your company, you are going to want to understand how important pay per click is for your company. Last century, the Yellow Pages played an important role, but now pay per click has taken over and is now the best way to get your name (and contact information) out for people to see. If you don't know why the Yellow Pages are dead, you may be a bit confused. Here is why you need pay per click for your business.

The telephone book has become obsolete in a lot of households. In fact, the only time you use it is to look up the number for your favorite restaurant - the rest of the time it just sits around getting in your way because it is big and bulky. Take your telephone book down and see how old it is - chances are it is not the current edition. Now, think about how you find all of the other telephone numbers that you need - you go to your computer. When you enter something into a search engine the results that you get are going to be pretty accurate. Of course there is a ton of junk out there, but searching for something specific (like your city name and the name of the fish restaurant that you love) is going to give you instant results. If you are computer savvy (or even computer proficient), you are probably going to find that locating information is faster on the computer than in the Yellow Pages.

So pay per click advertising is more convenient than Yellow Page advertising for people to find, but there has got to be other reasons why it is better. The vast majority of households have the Internet now, so it means that you are going to have everybody's attention. Plus, if you think about it, a lot of young adults and even middle-aged adults are more comfortable searching on the Internet than they are using the Yellow Pages. It's a lot more convenient to find what you are looking for. Plus, most people know that they are going to get a better selection of choices when using the Internet.

A final reason why pay per click is now the king of advertising is that a lot of companies have been starting to use online Yellow Pages. In the past, the telephone company would send out a copy of the Yellow Pages every year, but now the Yellow Pages aren't typically given out for free in a lot of areas and if they are, they aren't given out every year anymore. By advertising in the Yellow Pages, you are going to limit yourself to the number of people who see your business information to the people who got a copy of your local Yellow Pages. By advertising with a pay per click campaign, you are going to have the whole world be able to see your business information.

If you get a telephone call from the telephone company telling you about the specials they have on full page Yellow Page advertisements, you are going to want to tell the caller about all of the web traffic and profits that your business saw from your last pay per click campaign and that you are going to use your advertising money wisely.

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Will Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots Earn You Idiot Free Income?

By John Mayol

Are you happy with how you AdWords campaigns are going? If not, many of those just like you are thinking of another option... bringing their business to Yahoo, especially with the release of a new product Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots which offers some insight into succeeding in Yahoo Search Marketing.

Its really no surprise that a lot of people are taking an interest in it, especially that Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots hints that you can make even more money on Yahoo than Google.

So it comes down to this important question, should you really purchase Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots?

First point is, Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots will reveal close guarded secrets to succeeding in the paid search game on Yahoo. It sounds pretty much like any AdWords guide, but wait, there is more.

Second, it reveals a little known glitch in Yahoo's search marketing system that will allow you to get better ad positions and yet spend less. Most marketers who are new to PPC almost always lose their shirt before they master it, and yet many who do, still do not manage to turn out a profit, or even barely break even. Now is your chance to start out in PPC and not lose money.

The third benefit is its easy to understand instructions that take you through the steps in taking advantage of that loophole. Any marketer of any level of experience can exploit this.

Last but not least, affiliate marketers are happier with the fact that Yahoo is not as restrictive compared to Google when it comes to the use of the display URL on AdWords ads.

So how about it? Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots sounds like a no-brainer doesn't it. If for some reason you are not satisfied with it in your first two months of use, you would be an idiot not to get a refund for the $77.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

All About Pay Per Click Advertising

By Brian Basch

Pay per click may sound quite strange to the uninitiated. However once you use this form of advertising you will find the name is actually very appropriate.

Think about it. Search engines cost money to run, especially big ones. There are employees to pay, domains to purchase, and management expenses, just to name a few costs. You will need to retain a work force 24/7 and be constantly vigilant, to beat your competition. Like all businesses it cost money and there is no such thing as a free ride.

With all these expenses, and more, you will need to find a way of earning income. Running your search engine is a full time job and you do not have time to earn extra money. Then you have an idea! Why not make some money from all the millions of searches you accumulate per day? The searchers scour your results pages right? Why not give advertisers the chance to use your search engine to advertise? Great exposure for their ads and money in the bank for you!

One problem arises. You are offering much more exposure than the local newspaper and other conventional medias so you really want to charge a good price for your improved service. Then you suddenly have an ideapay per click advertising.

So reflect on this. The greater the numbers of visitors the more money the advertiser will get. This can be in your favor. Regardless of sales, you will still charge a fee for every click. Added to this you will only charge a small amount of money per click and the advertiser will be happy.

All of the money the advertiser spent on pay per click advertising will be made back in sales. However sometimes searchers can click on the ads with no intention to buy. To prevent huge losses for the advertiser you implement the option to put a cap on the hits or bids so that only X amount of dollars will be spent for each campaign. This will stop the advertiser from losing out if people randomly click ads.

So in a nutshell, this is what pay per click means. It is a wonderful idea and there is a possibility to earn good money. You will cover the costs for your search engine and the marketer will be able to increase their sales.

Armed with the knowledge about pay per click advertising you can now try it yourself. You will find it an ideal partnership of your search engine and the promoter. Both of you stand to earn good money.

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