Monday, September 21, 2009

The Benefits And Hazards Of Using PPC


One of the greatest systems in internet marketing is PPC (pay per click), which has revolutionized the way people view advertisements. For those of you who are new to the concept of internet marketing, it is a field where people are paid to create some wonderful concepts where companies are able to market their products or websites online and pay the advertisers for bringing traffic onto their site.

For some sites, however, Pay Per Click may not be an option for a few reasons. For instance, I might want to send traffic specifically about the American Heart Association 3 Day Diet Plan, but not want to pay for each click. A similarly non-PPC page on a real-estate foreclosure site, asking How Does Foreclosure Work, may not be a good candidate for paid traffic.

Unfortunately, some marketers have developed scams and taken them to a whole new level with the introduction of sites that pay members a fee to click and visit the websites that the advertisers provide to them. The members in turn gain a profit for the number of advertisements they click. They are provided with a fixed amount of adverts per day for which they have to wait for a whole 24 hours before the adverts are available to be clicked on again.

Another scheme created is the referral system. A person becomes a member (consider him as member A) of the advertisers website, the member tells his friend (consider him to be member B) to join the site, now the member B has been referred to this site through member A. Hence member A gets a part of the profit (equal to a portion of what member B has gained) as a commission for referring a friend.The higher the referrals the higher the commission pay obtained by a member.

Some websites impose a penalty on the members for clicking an advertisement more than once. His "punishment" may range from losses of the day's payout to even termination of the users account. Scamming PPC is not some thing to be dealt with lightly. It serves a large sector on the internet marketing world.

From an advertisers point of view PPC is a totally different thing. The company's set a budget depending on how many times they wish to display they're adverts online .The advertisers provide the companies with a set of clicks based on the budget provided and finalized. This system works as follows: A customer searches the internet for a particular product he is interested in, after finding a product based on the relevant search he clicks the link enabling him to view the company's ad.This is repeated until the value set by the advertisers has ended after this the companies advertisements do not show up on the search results. The Company pays the advertisers for each and every click generated by a customer.There is also software to measure whether the click provided by a customer is a legitimate click or not. This helps save the company money on wasted clicks made by people who might be trying to scam as in the illustration above. As one of the most effective ways for companies to grow and sell they're products online, Pay Per Click will be leading into further development to make internet marketing a common way to market company brands throughout the web.

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