Monday, January 19, 2009

Insider Secrets Of Successful Pay Per Click Management

By Brian Basch

All that you have heard is true. With pay per click marketing, you can make a lot of money with little effort, in a relatively short time. It can be a great asset to any advertising campaign. However there is a little secret that nobody lets you know. Behind the scenes of every successful pay per click marketing campaign is a sharp mind and a lot of hard work.

Choice of search engine is the key to the success of your campaign. Of course when you think of pay per click the big engines like Google and Yahoo spring to mind. This is because they are bigger and, some would say, better than the other engines. At the same time it should be noted that there are other search engines available. Pay Per Click Universe lists the top 10 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.

To make your pay per click campaign a success, you will need to choose the right keywords. When choosing a keyword you need to strike a happy medium between general keywords that will attract traffic and highly targeted ones that will give little traffic but make sales. Often you will find that the search engine itself will have a number of popular keywords in the database. You can begin with these but should not rely on them 100%. A lot of these keywords will attract a great deal of traffic but little or no sales.

After you have completed your keyword research you will now have to begin thinking about bids. Bear in mind that the highest bidder will get the best position. After all the search engines must make money too. The more money you invest the better the exposure for your ad. It is critical to your success to be positioned among the first 5-10 pages of search results, as searchers will not go beyond this range of pages.

Last but not least is the fact that you must never neglect to micro-manage your pay per click campaign. It is critical that you have your finger on the pulse of your campaign. You will need to track the click conversion to sales. Be prepared to tweak and be aware of small problems before they become larger.

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. - 16747

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