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Pay-per-click
is effective and quick
Pay-per-click (PPC) search engine advertising is
the fastest way to get a high ranking in a search engine. You bid
on keywords and the highest bidder gets the top ranking when someone
searches for that keyword. It's also an efficient use of advertising
funds because you incur a cost only when a search engine visitor clicks
through to your website.
While getting started in a PPC program is easy, making the most effective
use of the budgeted funds for the program is considerably more difficult.
You may have to select different keywords for PPC than you use for
natural search engine optimization. Your keyword bids may have to
change many times in a day in response to your competitor's bids and
in response to the behavior of your prospective customers.
We can help
We will select the most cost-effective keywords for your PPC program
and the best programs from the PPC search engines. We will manage
the bids to optimize the return on your PPC investment. We will write
effective copy for the PPC site listings and continually test the
effectiveness of the copy to ensure that searchers on the PPC sites
select your web pages from among all the displayed page listings.
We will also design and write effective landing
pages for your website so that visitors coming to your site stay
on your website and start on the navigation path toward fulfilling
the objective of your website. We may also be able to use the landing
pages for each keyword as the optimized core page of sub-sites
as part of the natural search engine optimization process.
We recommend these companies
There are many pay-per-click sites and the number of them is
quickly growing. For most companies we recommend two, Yahoo Search Marketing
(formerly Overture) and Google Ad Words. There are some interesting differences between the two especially with regard to how they rank the PPC websites. Both programs have different features and each must be managed differently to optimize the return on each.
There are also some mid-sized PPC sites we recommend in special situations. These include
Miva which owns Findwhat and Espotting, with its large presence in Europe, and Kanoodle which has a network that includes includes CNET and a context advertising network including many content-based
websites.
Choosing which and how many PPC sites to use and how much to bid for
your keywords is determined by your budget and the ROI of your PPC
experience. We can help you maximize your PPC investment through rigorous
keyword selection, effective bid management, and timely ROI measurements.
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