This list details some very important points to keep in mind when creating or managing any pay-per-click campaign. Is this all there
is to know about pay-per-click advertising? Absolutely not, but for those new to PPC it should serve as good place to start.
Additionally, pay-per-click veterans or at least the moderately-seasoned will want to touch upon these points now and then to brush up
on their fundamentals.
By far, PPC is currently the most popular advertising model. From the buyer's perspective, it is usually the most expensive type of advertising and the
one that generates the most fear of fraud. In fact, many experts suggest that click-fraud might be as high as 20 to 25% of all click-traffic.
With the creation of the Overture and Google Adwords systems, many webmasters believed they had finally hit the mother load. It was no longer necessary for small online businesses to invest large amounts of money into
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to gain high search rankings in the natural search results.
Even webmasters committed to SEO campaigns began to realize its fleeting nature. Given frequent search engine algorithm changes, optimizing a website was no guarantee that in 6 months or less it wouldn't be back to square
one and page twenty of the search results.
Run a test landing. Do a search and find your Pay Per Click (PPC) ad in Yahoo or Google. Click on it. Where does it bring you? Your home page? I hope not.
You should create a specific landing page for your PPC ads. A landing page is the page you create to convert your PPC traffic into sales. This page should get your
potential customers (that you have already paid for!) to go exactly where you think they want to go.
The world of pay-per-click marketing started in 1997 with GoTo.com. Today they
are known as Yahoo Search Marketing. What started in 1997 as a way to quickly
get listed in the top of the search engines has turned into a 5.6 billion dollar
industry in 2005. In fact, about 99% of Google's revenue comes from advertising.
It's important to target your ad to be as relevant as possible. Don't group all your keywords into one or two ad groups. Break them out. Keep them tight. This gives you more control over ad variables so that
you can be as relevant as possible.