What is Pay-Per-Click (PPC)?

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By stazstaz

As a successful affiliate marketer, you must try to induce new things. Lots of marketers still prefer to implement free techniques for better promotion of their website (and certainly less costly), so that’s why they use article marketing. But pay per click marketing is the simple approach that helps you to increase your profit quickly. In general, with PPC you have to pay a certain amount of money per number of clicks on your ad. For example, if you pay 10 cents per click and visitors click on your 20 times that day, you will end up paying $2.00. Google also publishes many PPC ads in the search results list on the right hand side. Google’s PPC ad service is called Google Adwords and can be highly profitable if you know what you are doing. Google search engine ads relate the ads shown to the keywords typed into the search engine therefore allowing the publishers to make money on a relevant basis.


If you are interested in running PPC ads, it is very important to have research first on the most searched keywords and keyword phrases in search engines. By doing this, it will help you to establish the most profitable campaign. Another important thing to remember is to find another internet marketer who knows how to advertise well and has been successful in pay per click campaigns for a while. This is easy to find, just look at the top position on Google’s search list. You should also monitor the competitor’s activity.

PPC campaigning is a great idea for promoting new websites. Sometimes it is hard to live in web world especially when your websites is new. It is advisable to keep checking your web stats for traffic to see how many visitors you have and how your traffic is ultimately improving. If you are unable to find any traffic towards your website then you must go to your PPC campaign and change your ad around because it is obvious that people are not clicking on it. You need to make it attractive and eye-grabbing. If your ads are interesting and offer solutions to the user’s problems, they will come to your website. So as you can see, it is easy to enhance your web traffic even without doing any search engine optimization. You can participate in this campaign until you are able to get enough targeted visitors as you like.

Here are some questions you should take in your mind:

What is included in PPC?

It includes advertising, articles on related keywords, web marketing vehicles and tools like search engine marketing which is often use to get the maximum returns from your website.

What is PPC management?

PPC management contains related search results in search engine like Google and Yahoo. When the user requests a page using a specific keyword then your advertisement will be visible on that page as long as it is directly related to the keywords you are targeting. PPC management monitors your campaigns and shows you how many people have clicked on it per day. Moreover, PPC management allows you to change your pricing per click if you realize later it is too high or too low.

What about pricing in PPC?

It depends on the PPC manager. You should take extra care when choosing keywords. Moreover you should analyze the current market. Choose the keywords that are fair in price, and involve a lot of traffic. Sometimes choosing even the most costly keywords will not give you your targeted results, so remember to do your research. You can capture lot of traffic with the fairly priced keywords (5 to 10 cents per click).

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Tom T profile image

Tom T Level 2 Commenter 22 months ago

Thank You! I've been looking for a quick summary. I need to learn more so this is quite timely! Bookmarking this Hub.

stazstaz profile image

stazstaz Hub Author 22 months ago

Thanks for the comment! Just be sure you read up on it before you get into it; I lost a lot of money by just winging it.

Dave Quinn profile image

Dave Quinn 9 months ago

Well done. Excellent article, however try to recommend some ad networks like ayhappc.com or adbrite.com. Both are very good, however Ayha is going under maintenance for a month :(

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