Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Why Pay Per Click is better than the Yellow Pages

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If you are wondering whether or not pay per click is better than a Yellow Pages ad for getting customers aware of your company, you are going to want to understand how important pay per click is for your company. Last century, the Yellow Pages played an important role, but now pay per click has taken over and is now the best way to get your name (and contact information) out for people to see. If you don't know why the Yellow Pages are dead, you may be a bit confused. Here is why you need pay per click for your business.

Does your house even have a telephone book? If you have one, you probably rarely look at it, and it spends most of the time collecting dust in a cupboard. You may be surprised to learn that your telephone book is a couple of years out of date. When you need a telephone number, you probably go on the Internet to find it. Entering a number into your favorite search engine is going to give you instant and accurate results. Sure, you may think that there is a lot of bad sites on the Internet that are going to waste your time, but if you search for something specific, like a business name, chances are you are going to find it really quickly. You don't need to be a computer genius to figure out that it is a lot quicker to search on the computer than in the Yellow Pages.

So pay per click advertising is more convenient than Yellow Page advertising for people to find, but there has got to be other reasons why it is better. The vast majority of households have the Internet now, so it means that you are going to have everybody's attention. Plus, if you think about it, a lot of young adults and even middle-aged adults are more comfortable searching on the Internet than they are using the Yellow Pages. It's a lot more convenient to find what you are looking for. Plus, most people know that they are going to get a better selection of choices when using the Internet.

A lot of Yellow Page directories have gone entirely online, meaning that people are going to get on their computer to find the information anyways. The nail in the Yellow Pages coffin is the fact that many people aren't getting free Yellow Page directories anymore. If you put a Yellow Page ad in, the number of people who see your company's information decreases. A pay per click is going to increase that number to everyone on the Internet.

The next time you get a call from a Yellow Pages ad salesman telling you that he's got a great special for advertising, you are probably just going to want to tell him the you have decided to use a pay per click campaign to get this traffic to your website and to get your business flowing. - 15275

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