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Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) has had a pretty good press these last few years.  Google has become one of the world’s most admired companies on the back of its sponsored search and Adwords revenues.  Fees earned from visitors clicking through ads on their sites has become the most important revenue source for many content providers, including giants like Facebook and Youtube.  Armies of individuals have created content (like this article) in the hope of taking a tiny slice of the huge PPC pie, which is estimated to reach $60 billion globally in 2010. But does this burgeoning PPC spend really pay for the advertisers?  The short answer has to be “yes” because such growth would not have occurred without the bulk of the spending generating profitable results.  However if you’re planning to spend on PPC perhaps you might want to look at some potential downsides: 1. Variable and skewed traffic Most people never click on internet ads. Estimates vary but it seems that 70-85% rarely if ever respond to internet advertising so the traffic you do receive from PPC is obviously skewed to a certain segment of the population.  This may not matter if you are getting profitable sales from acceptably priced traffic but it is at least worth considering if you find that you are attracting the wrong kind of visitor (such as non-buying ones) to your site.  It is also an argument for not putting all your eggs in the PPC basket as you are missing the bulk of your potential market. 2. Brand and credibility issues Being “no 1 on Google” carries a certain cache, though it does not take an internet marketer to know there is a big difference between being top for a competitive term (“restaurant New York”) and an obscure one (“Bulgarian restaurant New York”).  But by the same token, it is also true that paying to put your name, brand or site in front of internet eyeballs can sometimes look like an admission of failure or, worse, spammy and amateurish.  If you begin an Adwords campaign for your blue chip investment advisory service do you want to end up just below an ad touting 1000% returns for penny stock tips? 3. What about “nonliners”? If you spend a large amount of your marketing budget on PPC you are missing a large part of your potential audience.  We have already talked about the majority of surfers who do not click on paid results or banners, but what about “nonliners” who do not use the internet or do so but not when searching for your product or service?  At least if your internet marketing strategy is mainly “organic” (non-paid) then you may have money left over for offline marketing. 4. Failure to convert If you think PPC is a lazy and easy way to make money online then you can forget it.  Anyone in the industry will tell you that attracting traffic is only part of the battle; you can quickly lose a lot of money paying for clicks through to bad internet sites or “landing pages” which do not convert clicks to profits.  Try an experiment for yourself, typing in a relevant search term and clicking through the sponsored results.  You will quite often be led to boring, low impact homepages with no sales pitch or “call to action” (in marketing speak), or pages with limited relevance to your search term or even to broken links.  If you spend money on PPC you still have to invest time and thought in developing effective landing pages and arresting site content. 5. Click fraud One of the great advantages of PPC is that everyone clicking through has had their interest piqued by your ad and therefore is a potential customer.  But what if you are paying for clicks made by competitors trying to undermine your campaign or online marketers generating phony clicks to make money?  This is a growing problem and even though there are controls and protective measures that Google and others take, this can be an expensive pitfall for the unfortunate or unwary. 6. Bidding wars If advertising your chosen keywords is expensive or at least going up in price, this does not necessarily mean that you are getting more valuable traffic for your money.  More likely it means the competition is hotting up.  US car dealers faced this problem at the beginning of the recession when Americans stopped buying cars: PPC rates for key industry terms doubled and trebled as dealers scrabbled desperately for clicks. If you build your business around paying for clicks it can be very painful when those clicks suddenly double or treble in price.  If the cost becomes prohibitive what do you have to fall back on? 7. Keyword research A lot of site owners are put off the alternative to PPC – achieving high search engine rankings by link building, article marketing or other techniques – because it sounds too much like hard work or very demanding and technically difficult.  There is some truth to this – it is not easy to rank well for competitive terms but given time and effort you can get there.  However the alternative of PPC is also demanding because campaigns also require a lot of skill and knowledge, particularly in terms of researching keywords that are not only going to attract the right traffic but also be affordable enough to be profitable.  Campaigns also require constant monitoring and adjustment to achieve goals efficiently. 8. The risks of getting PPC wrong How do you fancy getting “Google Slapped”?  If you are new to the world of PPC you probably don’t even know the term but it is about as unpleasant as it sounds.  If Google doesn’t like something about your Adwords campaign (most likely a lack of quality or relevance on your landing page) you can be penalised with a “slap” which puts up your ad costs to sometimes prohibitive amounts.  Other forms of PPC, like paid search, can be fraught with risk too, if you are unskilled or inexperienced.  For example say you bid for a search phrase that you already rank well for in regular organic results.  This may not be disastrous and in fact research shows that sites that show in both sponsored and regular search results do particularly well, but if you do so unwittingly you may end up misdirecting your resources, undermining your non-paid (organic) internet marketing and overestimating the benefits of your PPC spend. 9. The sugar rush problem An Adwords consultant once described PPC to me as like a “sugar rush”.  He meant that the effects were indeed gratifyingly instantaneous and effective but not automatically lasting.  There are ways of using PPC campaigns to build lasting results (e.g. building up email lists by offering visitors a newsletter or by offering programs or content which give them an incentive to return regularly) but most often PPC buyers are left with the option of keeping paying – even when click rates shoot up – or lose their lifeblood of traffic.  Organic traffic building takes time but when done right the results are long-lasting and in fact self-reinforcing over time. 10. Budgets become moving targets In theory PPC should be budget-friendly because you work out what sort of traffic volume you are looking for and have an idea of the cost per click but the reality is not so straightforward.  For one thing until you have launched a campaign and had some experience of it you do not actually know the cost per click.  Google has a Traffic Estimator which gives you a range of cost estimates for each keyword combination but one internet marketing guru I know says he has more faith in unicorns than this tool.  Also as we have seen the cost of PPC can rise and fall very suddenly making a mockery of your carefully constructed marketing budget. CONCLUSION:  I wrote this article to balance all the good press that PPC generally receives.  There is another side to this much-lauded and still fast-growing marketing tool which is worthy of consideration.  However I do not mean to say that you should never use paid search, banner ads, Adwords and the rest it as part of your marketing effort just be aware of the limitations of PPC and use it as part of a multi-faceted approach. The author is based in Spain and has written this guide to marketing for Spanish small businesses: and author of the guide to marketing in Spain http://www.advoco.es/home/22-latest/32-30-or-so-ways-to-market-a-business-in-spain.html James Baker is a UK-qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years business experience in London and Spain. He is Senior partner of Advoco, Spanish law & accounting. 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Everyone knows that making a living online is possible but in order to make funds online selling your product or services, you will need one thing for sure – traffic to your website or affiliate landing page. There’s lots of ways to get traffic to your website using different services. The method that most experienced internet marketers use is pay per click. It has proven time and time again to bring in highly targeted traffic to your website or product pages resulting in high conversions if done correctly. The most popular PPC – Pay per click program is by far Google Adwords as Google is two of the most popular search engine and internet company out there. This isn’t good for the internet marketer with a small budget as the competition is extreme which makes your cost per click much higher than other pay per click advertisers such as Bidvertiser. There is much less competition using Bidvertiser. How can this be good for you? Let me explain, since there’s less advertisers using Bidvertiser to gain quality traffic to their website, your cost per click is dramatically reduced as there’s less people bidding on the same keywords. You have the opportunity to get 10 times more traffic on the exact same budget using Bidvertiser than you would with Google Adsense for example. In the past few years, other companies have emerged giving advertisers a choice in their pay per click options. Bidvertiser is one of my personal favourites when it comes to pay per click marketing since they are not as renown. Bidvertiser offers lots of the same benefits as the top companies but at a much cheaper cost to you. This is key to your success as you need to bring the most amount of traffic to your website or product for the least amount of funds. They currently have a promotional offer right now which allows new advertisers to get $20 of free clicks which will no doubt get you some quality free traffic. There is no deposit required in order to take advantage of this offer, registration is quick and easy and best of all it’s free. Visit their website and sign up today! sign up today! Take advantage of this offer and place your ad on thousands of sites with BidVertiser. Get $20 in FREE clicks. Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ppc-advertising-articles/a-smaller-ppc-company-might-be-what-you-need-get-20-of-free-clicks-1676663.html

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Nowadays, even Google is questioning Google’s rose-colored portrait of its ever-expanding search advertising monopoly. The way senior vp Jonathan Rosenberg tells it, Google will gradually tweak its AdWords ad platform until it displays almost no ads. Ad “coverage” on the world’s largest search engine has certainly shrunk over the past several months, and when the subject was mooted during July’s quarterly earnings call, Rosenberg attributed this steady shrinkage to Google’s “continued focus on quality” advertising. “[Google co-founder] Larry [Page] says we’d be better off showing just one ad [per page] – the perfect ad,” Rosenberg cooed, indicating that coverage would shrink even further. But then, in a rare moment of Google candor, the other co-founder told listening reporters and financial analysts that Rosenberg’s “perfect ad” nonsense was indeed nonsense. “There is some evidence that we’ve been a little bit more aggressive in decreasing coverage than we ought to have been,” was the word from Sergey Brin. “We’ve been reexamining some of that.” His candor was fleeting. But with the company’s second quarter profits dipping below Wall Street expectations, it looked an awful lot like Brin and company were on the verge of cranking the dial on their AdWords money machine and cooking up added profits for quarters three and four – and beyond. Remember: More coverage means more clicks, and more clicks means more money. Well, little more than a month later, Google has  announced significant changes to its ad platform. Most notably, the company is killing AdWords’ much-discussed “minimum bid,” a means of discouraging what Google considers “low quality” ads. The changes have yet to reach the web at large. Google is testing the waters with “a very small segment of advertisers.” But search engine marketers – and Wall Street analysts – can’t help but wonder if this is Google’s play for more coverage. And more revenue. “No more minimum bids?” says Adam Audette, founder of  AudetteMedia , a boutique search marketing shop out of Bend, Oregon. “It certainly looks like they’ll have more leeway to make more money.” Meanwhile, as Jonathan “Perfect Ad” Rosenberg himself let slip during that shockingly-newsworthy earnings call, Google continues to expand a coverage-happy AdWords beta known as “Automatic Matching.” Believe it or not, Auto Match spends your excess ad budget on keyword searches you aren’t actually bidding on, and judging from initial tests, it empties your wallet just as pointlessly as expected. Testing Auto Match with a seasoned Google advertiser, the Dallas, Texas-based search marketing outfit KeyRelevance saw spending increase 600 per cent on a single ad campaign, and most of that extra dough was spent on keyword searches that had little or nothing to do with the advertiser’s products. “Auto Match decided the account needed help spending money,” says Jim Gilbert, the KeyRelevance ad guru who ran the tests. “So it started spending money.” Google insists it’s only interested in serving up relevant ads, satisfying both advertisers and web surfers. But this commitment to quality goes only so far. Google is also interested in making lots of money, and as the economy continues to soften, it’s worth remembering Mountain View has the power to juice profits whenever it likes. With AdWords controlling 70 per cent of the search advertising market, even the slightest turn of the dial can mean millions. Minimum Bid: RIP AdWords serves up text ads in response to Google keywords searches. Google bills it as an auction. You bid for a particular keyword or group of keywords – “leather mask,” for instance, or “my little pony” – and if you bid high enough, your ad will appear each time someone searches on those terms. The winning bidder gets the top spot on the page, the second place bidder gets the second spot, and so on. And if your ad actually gets a click, you pay Google a fee somewhere south of that bid. But this isn’t an eBay-style bid-off. Before you bid, Google gives you a “quality score,” and if your quality score is low, it may restrict your ability to place ads. In some cases, Google prevents you from bidding at all. In others, it saddles you with a high minimum bid. And even if you can afford that minimum, a low quality score may bar you from top ad spots. You see, Google doesn’t determine auction results with bids alone. It calculates ad spots by multiplying your bid and your quality score. At least, that’s the way it works now. With an official post to the Official Inside AdWords blog, Google says it will soon revamp the quality score. First off, AdWords will now calculate this mystery number in real time, as the searcher is searching. According to Google, this will better match ads to particular queries. “AdWords will use the most accurate, specific, and up-to-date performance information when determining whether an ad should be displayed,” the blog reads. “Your ads will be more likely to show when they’re relevant and less likely to show when they’re not. This means that Google users are apt to see better ads while you, as an advertiser, should receive leads which are more highly qualified.” At the same time, AdWords will no longer bar “low quality” ads from particular keyword auctions, and it will do away with the minimum bid. Instead, it will give you a “first page bid,” estimating what it would take to land your ad on the first page of search results. The way Google tells it, all this will improve its ability to geo-target ads. To wit, your real-time quality score may go up or down depending on where the searcher is searching from. But in dropping the barriers that so often prevented advertisers from even joining an auction, Google may be expanding coverage as well, slipping more ads into its less-coveted ad spots. But who knows? As always, Google keeps the particulars hidden. “We can guess that Google wants to increase its revenues and that’s what’s going to happen,” says Brian Carter, an AdWords consultant with the South Carolina-based search engine marketer Fuel Interactive, “but judging from the information we have, it’s really hard to say.” At the very least, the changes will result in more advertisers placing bids. And Google reserves the right to do whatever it likes with those extra bidders. Place them on a page. Or not. In other words, Google has even greater freedom to turn that dial. Auto Match Revealed Automatic Match is a more obvious turn of the dial. This AdWords beta – which debuted in February with a handful of advertisers and has since expanded to who knows how many more – automatically spends budgeted ad dollars you aren’t spending on your own. “Automatic Matching automatically extends your campaign’s reach by using surplus budget to serve your ads on relevant search queries that are not already triggered by your keyword lists,” reads Google’s initial email to beta testers. That’s right, Auto Match automatically spends your unused budget on keyword searches you aren’t actually bidding on. According to Google, it only chooses relevant searches. But tests from KeyRelevance tell a different story. With his seasoned advertiser, Jim Gilbert setup bidding on the keywords “wedding table decorations.” And he designated this bid as a “phrase match,” meaning he only wanted an ad placed if someone searched on all three of those words, in that order (with or without additional keywords). But the account wasn’t spending its daily budget, and when Auto Match kicked in, it started placing ads against all sorts of other keyword combinations. Some of these suited his advertiser, including “wedding table decor,” “decorations for wedding tables,” “wedding cake table decorations,” and “wedding table ideas.” But many more did not, including “party table numbers,” “chocolate wedding favors,” “chocolate lollipops,” “Hersheys,” “wedding flowers,” “wedding flowers,” and “wedding gowns.” With Auto Match turned on, spending on this single ad group increased roughly 600 per cent. And in the end, more than 70 per cent of the traffic generated by the ad group was a complete waste. “I’ll give it credit for being somewhat accurate,” Gilbert says. “But most of the matches were pure trash.” Gilbert can turn Auto Match off. But it’s turned on by default. The question is whether Google will keep this default when it rolls things out to the web at large. Yes, Auto Match is a beta. And yes, Google may improve its ad matching abilities before the program goes web-wide. But this sort of thing is never an exact science, and there’s no denying that Google is attempting to wrest even more control from advertisers – while ensuring additional spending. When Sergey Brin hinted that Google would soon expand its ad coverage, he didn’t say the company wanted more dollars. He said that the company was concerned that web surfers weren’t seeing enough ads: “Our ads are an important addition, quality wise, to our pages. They’re a very important source of information.” But the truth is a little different. When you type the words “chocolate lollipop,” do you want an ad for wedding table decorations? Wealthy Affiliate University Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ppc-advertising-articles/google-adwords-changes-1672025.html

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