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Pay Per Click Advertising
When you go to search engines, you see areas on
the pages that show Sponsored Links. On Yahoo! it's at the
top of the page and on Google it's on the right hand side.
Companies pay a certain amount for each time someone clicks
through to their site on the Sponsored Links. Pay
Per Click is an excellent way to get visitors to
your site quickly. Another name for it is pay per
performance. Read more about Google
Adwords and Overture
pay per performance.
How Pay Per Click Works
A company will research what search terms
are most popular for finding a company like theirs and then
develop Sponsored Links that will describe their service
or product in two sentences. The company then determines
how
much they are willing to spend to get a visitor to their
site. You can also determine an upper limit of how much
they are
willing to spend on a daily or monthly basis so you aren't
socked with an unexpectedly large charge.
Overture is the largest Pay Per Click provider,
accounting for about 75% of these services on the Internet.
Their minimum bid for a search term is $.10 per click. Google's
minimum is $.05 per click through. Other Pay Per Click services
charge even less but are much smaller.
Once a company has written their Sponsored
Link and determined what they are willing to pay, then they
are ready to go. When someone clicks on their sponsored link,
their account will be charged the amount they had landed on.
To put your mind at ease, there are safeguards
in the Pay Per Click software that prevents you being charged
if your competition decides to click on your link 50 times
in a row.
The value of
Pay Per Click is that you are getting visitors to your site
who are sincerely interested in your services. So you are
developing highly qualified leads.
How We Can Help with Pay Per Click
Green Chair Marketing Group will work with
you to develop high quality Sponsored Links for your company's
web site. We will research what search terms would work most
effectively for you and your business. We will then set up
your account on one or more of the Pay Per Click services.
The cost of our services will depend on
several factors. Research and set up will generally run
$400-500
for smaller sites, and then a monthly fee of $150 for maintenance.
We check your ads twice a month, make changes to help you
be more effective, and send you a report on your activity.
You may cancel the maintenance at any time, but we suggest
you keep doing it so your advertising can remain effective.
Please fill
out our contact form to the right to let us know
how we can help you.
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