When
I think of Pay Per Click Marketing, I think of a marketing strategy that
has two different sides - one where you pay for published ads and one
where you get paid for publishing ads. Somebody is always paying for
the click, whether it is you clicking on someone's ad or another person
clicking on your ad. Pay Per Click depends on how you look at who is
paying.
If
you use Google to search the internet then you may find that your
search results include "Sponsored Links" (on the right hand side of the
search results page). If you click on any of the Sponsored links, the
advertiser that placed the ad you clicked must pay Google for that
click. If the advertiser is you, you are the one that pays. The price
that you would pay depends on how much you have bid on the keywords
used to generate the ad. This marketing tactic is called Google Adwords.
In
addition to the ads being displayed with the search results, Google
allows owners of websites and Blogs to display the same ads as
contextual ads. Contextual refers to content that relates to the subject of
your web page. This tactic is called Google Adsense. Each time a
visitor clicks on an ad Google pays the owner of the website for that
click. If you have traffic going to your web site and you display the
Google Adsense Ads on a page and someone clicks an ad, you make money.
Note that Google Adwords and Google Adsense compliment each other and are in fact to a given person, the inverse of each other.
Google
Adwords Pay Per Click advertising is a good way to get quick targeted traffic to
your website. Because you are paying for an ad promoting your site or
affiliate link, those that click your ad will be directed to your site.
The efficiency of your ad (click through rate or CTR) will depend on
the ad copy and the keywords. The keywords that you have in the ads
that are searched for dictate when your ad is displayed. The How To Make Money With Google Adwords page on this site will inform you on how to make the most of a
Google Adwords campaign as a tool to make money.
Google
Adsense is a good way to make an "automatic" recurring income.
Automatic assuming your ads are getting the clicks and generating the
income you expect. Some tweaking of the ad placement, colors, etc. may
be neccessary for optimization. When a Google Adsense ad on your site
is clicked, both you and Google make a split percentage of the total of
the bid price for the keyword that the ad was displayed and clicked
for. The How To Make Money With Google Adsense page on this site will inform you how to make the most of having Adsense ads on your site for generating an automatic income.
Other
types of ads that are gaining popularity are Chitika ads. Chitika ads
are called eminimalls because they display a picture and a description
of the product, the best deals and a search feature. If you want to
display Google Adsense ads and Chitika ads on the same web page, Google
requires specific modifications to the Chitika ads. These rules and
other tips and ideas for using Chitika ads can be found on my Chitika
Ads page.
Both
Yahoo and Microsoft are in beta right now with their own equivalent to
Google Adsense. The Yahoo ad network is called Yahoo Publisher Network
(YPN) and Microsoft's network is called Adcenter. I have not tried
these networks out yet, but I may find myself doing that if I find that
ad clicks yield a higher amount or percentage to the web site publisher.
There
are several other networks for pay per click advertising available to try as well. Some
of these would be RevenuePilot, Bidclix, CBclicks, Adsclick and
Bidvertiser. I am sure there are even more than this. If you are
interested, search them out and see if they fit for your own website's
use.
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