PPC Management Dilemma
Friday, June 19th, 2009since 1998 when Overture first introduced the idea of selling search ads for 1 or 2 cents, the pay per click advertising market grow larger and more competitive every day and the system quickly evolved to be one of the worlds ever growing marketplaces.
The main idea behind the PPC is to let advertisers have their ads to be placed somewhere in the 1st page of the search engine when certain keywords are being searched. The click price then will vary according to many things such as competitiveness of the keyword, search volume of the keyword, region for the ad to be placed, … etc.
From 2003 to mid 2008, the PPC market was less competitive than it is today, normally if you would have chosen 10 words for your ad campaign, 6~8 of them would converge to be profitable, however this is not the case any more, Today the market is more competitive than ever that may be 1 or 2 out of 10 keywords for an ad campaign would converge. Therefore, many people are loosing money to their ad campaigns. The good news is that you can always have a tool that can manage your PPC campaigns for you, a very good one can be found here : PPC Evolution
Why to use PPC? Is it worth it?
Using PPC is an optimum solution if you need to get traffic to your site right now, and you don’t want to get into the hassle of SEO and rank optimization
You may want to test the market and see if it’s ready for your product or service, in other words, doing Market research
Gather feedback or bring beta tester
How to increase conversion rate of PPC?
Be specific when you choose your keywords, put your self in the customer’s place and think what keywords would he use for searching
Don’t follow the crowd, it most likely will bring you highly priced clicks and generally very targeted to your purpose
If your targeting a specific region, use the local terms of this region as keywords
Include the main keyword in the body of the ad
Pay attention to the headline of the ad, you might want to pay close attention to magazines headline to learn how they choose it.
Call for and action, start with something like “Do this .. ” or ” Get that ..”
Keep close attention to how your ads are doing, analyze and take action
one last advise is to keep with the larger Pay per Click services like Google adwords , Yahoo Search Marketing & Microsoft Adcenter, for several reasons, the larger search engine can deliver you scalable traffic as you increase your budget, Traffic will flow to your site faster, larger search engines deliver higher quality traffic, they much easier and reliable tools to track your ads and manage them and many more benefits that you’ll find them handy.
I hope this helped you have an overall view about the PPC market and how to optimize your ads.
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