Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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.

There were a number of options. News media, TV, radio and website promotions were just a few that could be used by advertisers. Then somebody came up with a bright idea. Of course some online ads were better than others and gave far more views. For example advertising on a busy website would give your ad many views. They developed a concept that paid the website owner 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.

So what about pay per click advertising? It is a simple concept with the advertiser submitting a keyword based ad to the search engines. The ad will come up with the search results for the keyword. Each time the ad is clicked by a visitor the advertiser pays the search engine a small amount of money. This allows both host and advertiser to make money.

When the search engines saw the potential of this idea they decided to develop it. To get better placements, advertisers were invited to bid higher. The advertiser with the highest bid won the best placement, this gave their ads better exposure. Both search engines and advertisers increased their 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.

Multiple methods of drawing traffic to your site will help you to develop your business. When you use different pay per click options you can increase your sales and skyrocket your business.

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