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Is Google AdWords the Only Pay Per Click Program on the Market?

April 30, 2008

PPC advertisement has opened the door to a new era in internet marketing. The search engines have come up with a way to make money from internet marketing. What are the effects of that?

Let’s look at advertising from days gone by. No matter the medium for your advertising, TV, radio, newsprint, or web-page, you would be charged a fee. And for your fee you’d get you ads shown for a particular time period and they could be seen by any, and everybody.

Then someone started thinking that this type of system wasn’t really fair on the internet; after all, not all advertising venues are created equal. If an ad received a great deal of exposure due to the fact that the website it was posted on brought in a larger number of visitors every day, shouldn’t both parties profit from it?

But increasing the fees that they charge isn’t right either. The likelihood of traffic maintaining that rate is not good. The site might get to be known for charging too much for a small return.

So you see that is where ppc advertising comes from.

Ads are written by the marketer, using keywords chosen for their productivity, for a product/service they would like to sell. Then the marketer gives these ads to the search engine.

Each time someone searches on the web for a particular keyword the search engine will display the ad. When the ad is clicked on and the searcher goes from the ad to the website linked to the ad, the advertiser pays the search engine a small fee, usually under a dollar, and it is good business for the search engine and the advertiser.

The idea was taken a farther by the search engine. They make it possible for a marketer whose is willing to pay a little more per click on their advertisements (the one who has the highest bid on the particular keyword) to have their ads shown in the top slot of sponsored ads. In this way the advertiser can get greater visibility and create more traffic, and that means both he and the search engine will have greater profits.

If you ask anyone to identify a pay per click “ppc” advertising tool they are probably going to immediately fall back on Google and Google AdWords; however, Google is far from the only search engine to operate a pay per click marketing tool.

Yahoo!, ABC Search, Search Feed, 7 Search, MIVA, Findology, Microsoft AdCenter and Ask.com all allow marketers to advertise with them on a pay per click basis. The prosperous marketer will be the one that is willing to step out from the comfort zone of Google and AdWords and test their advertising skills in these uncharted waters.

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