Pay Per Click is a very effective way to instantly get traffic onto your website and if your website contains a shopping cart, then sales too.
Now that these two forms of search engine optimisation are understood, you can start to build an effective campaign in your own mind of how you can improve your own websites performance.
Roughly 4 out of every 5 internet users will click on natural search results before they click on PPC (sponsored search results). In other words, 80% percent of internet searchers will click on a natural search result prior to or instead of a sponsored listing.
So that means SEO over PPC is the way to go, right? Not necessarily. Pay per click does have value when used in conjunction with other SEO tactics. First of all, the result are much more immediate. Pay today and see results tomorrow. Second, you have complete control over which keywords you’re ranking for because you’re bidding on specific keyword phrase. Third, you can also change your results on the fly: want to change how your sponsored ad appears? Log in, change it, and hit save. The results are immediate.
Successful PPC is made up of these main factors:
1. Bidding on a sufficiently large number of relevant search phrases.2. Bidding enough for each search phrase so that your text ad appears where it will be seen (for brand awareness) and clicked (to send the search engine user to your web site).
3. Constructing the campaign so it is very targeted.
4. Providing very relevant information for the searchers who click on your text ads.
5. Careful measurement and testing of results.
So these are the major problems web site owners face; how do I come up with 1000s to 10000s of search phrases, how much should I bid for each search phrase, how do I construct a really targeted campaign, how do I provide really relevant information for the searchers and how do I measure and test the whole thing?