Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Pay Per Click Advertising: Why to Consider for Business


Maximization of cost efficiency of any PPC (Pay per click) campaign tends to be possible through placing higher bids. Bidding costs involved in this campaign reflect heavily on SEO consultants who seek to sidestep them. Aversion of those costs for bid placement is possible only when a solid PPC bid management strategy is prepared.
Search engine optimization consultants underpin two separate campaign strategies. One sect of them thinks that the position their sites achieve in the SERP (search engine results pages) depends highly on the amount that they bid. But, this stance of marketing strategy does not amass comprehensive support. However, major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, or Bing, rely heavily on the quality score of the PPC ads. This quality is the benchmark that helps them determine the appropriate position in results pages.
Abhijit Roy
Big companies can allow their SEO consultants to place high bids; but what about the small companies? Most of them cannot afford to bid high. Nor do they dare to do so as being not sure about the penny they spend in the pay per click search engine campaign is worth it. As a consequence, they look for some other ideas that could help them achieve the same results at significantly minimum spending.
But, does PPC advertising guarantee lasting high traffic flow? In a word, it does not. Unlike organic SEO practices that can yield free traffic for long times, PPC search engine campaign can do it also till one keeps on paying for it. Despite this fact of compulsory higher spending, online marketing specialists are to focus on it. This is why popularity of Google Ad Words still thrives in this way. Benefits that are achievable through this program consequently are as follows:
Quick Ranking: Organic SEO takes time to enhance ranking of a site due to longer times as taken by the search engines' spiders for performing deep crawl of the site. PPC listings bring in quick result as they can be launched much faster.
Competitive Advantage: PPC adds extra traffic to a site, even for highly competitive keyword phrases. Organic SEO efforts take much time to get top 10 listing. In such situation when one has got to achieve an edge over a competitive keyword phrase, one can better save the organic SEO efforts for some other effective targets. One can use the PPC listing strategy in such case instead.
ROI (Return on Investment): PPC helps measure progress easily. If one comes to know of the Cost per Conversion levels through statistics, one can compare the progress of one's site in the light of one's competitor sites.
Use of PPC campaign helps a site appear for keywords the target site selects whenever web users conduct a search using those selected keywords. One can drive one's site to upper crust of search engine results pages by using this strong strategy. The costs it involves, it pays off, quickly, in the form of drawing good traffic volume.

Source:       Abhijit Kumar