Pay per click can be a great way to start your Online Marketing campaign. However it is easy to get into a difficult situation if you are new to the system or if you do not keep a close check on the statistics that will be produced by your pay per click provider.

The concept is straightforward, you commission you provider, normally a search engine company, to display your advert in one of the non organic areas of the Search Engine Placement listings ie the search results. You tell them to only display the advert when certain keywords or phrases are typed into the search by the searcher. The beauty of the deal is that there is no spend for that advert until a customer actually clicks on the advert to take them right to your website. So in theory you are only being charged for customers who are really interested in your goods or services.

The first issue to be extremely careful about is which keywords or phrases you go for. Too broad a choice of key words may give you hundreds of clicks (and therefore a massive pay per click bill) but hardly any sales, as only a small percentage of the searchers using those words and phrases were either interested in your exact product, or ready to buy right now. The trick therefore is to be as explicit as possible with your keywords. If you only supply pens it would be far better to have all the searchers keying in “pens for sale” see your advert than it would to have the much bigger category of searchers who would input just “pens” or even “stationery for sale”. With “pens” the searcher could be looking merely for information on pens, when they were invented, different kinds, reviews etc. They may all click through to your site, costing you money but not with any intention of actually purchasing one! With “Stationery” of course you will see a large number of people searching for the word but only a percentage of them will be looking to buy a pen. So the advert may be listed often but have a small “click through” rate.

Once you have determined the keyword facet of the pay per click you really do need to check the whole campaign carefully. It is critical to know how much you are spending and what you are getting for your money. The search engine repeatedly asks you to apply a daily limit on the amount you want to spend, this can be deceptive as ?50 per day does not sound a huge amount of money but if left to run for a month it will become ?1500. As long as this is bringing in a satisfactory number of sales it may be suitable but if not then the campaign should be paused until some fine tuning has been done.

The process is quite simple however getting it completely right needs a lot of adjustments and careful monitoring. If you do not have time for this pass the job on to an online marketing or Search Engine Optimization Company, they will handle the account and should deal with all the fine tuning a lot faster that you can.

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