Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Successful Pay Per Click Management

By Brian Basch

Well there is a lot of truth in what you have heard. Pay per click will allow you to make money quickly and easily. It can really boost your business. But the real truth is this, at the back of every profitable campaign is a master mind who has spent a lot of time and trouble to make this method work.

It is critical to the success of your campaign that you choose the right search engine. Your obvious choices would be Yahoo Search and Google Adwords, as these are the biggest and best pay-per-click programs. However it is wise to note that there are other search engines out there. Pay Per Click Universe has done research into this and come up with these top 10 pay per click engines.

1. Google 2. Yahoo! 3. ABC Search 4. Search Feed 5. 7 Search 6. MIVA 7. Enhance Interactive 8. Findology 9. Microsoft adCenter 10. Ask.com

Smart marketers will be able to utilize all of these programs and will see which ones work best for their business.

Choice of keywords is critical to your pay per click success. Your choice will be determined by 2 types of keywords; tight niche ones that will bring a small amount of traffic but only a few sales and general ones that bring a large amount of views but a lot of wasted leads. Popular keywords can be found by looking at the search engine database, but do not rely on these alone. This is because these popular keywords will bring a good stream of views but not many sales.

Bidding will be your next choice. The position of your ad will be determined by how much you want to pay per click. Obviously the highest bidder will get the best position and exposure. Positioning is critical to success, as searchers will rarely look beyond the first 5 pages of the search results. If your ad is not among these pages you might as well consider it forgotten.

In the last you need to understand that you will need to pay close attention and micro-manage your campaign. Attention to detail is a must and you need to be acutely aware of every part of your campaign. Tracking sales conversions is a must. Adjust test and be sure that you nip problems in the bud, before they get out of control.

When you do your research and micro-manage your campaign you can make a lot of money with pay per click marketing. However it should also be noted that you would be experimenting a lot. It is important not to get disappointed if you do not see profits immediately. It just takes a little patience to succeed.

So make use of these points and make them part of your action plan. A little work initially will pay big dividends. Using more than one pay per click engine will expand your business and increase your sales. - 15246

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