Monday, December 29, 2008

Finding Alternatives To Google Adwords

By Brian Basch

A new concept in Internet marketing has emerged with the advent of Pay Per Click advertising. It seems that the search engines have finally managed to perfect the art of making profits with online promotions. Now what precisely does this mean?

Let us pause for a moment to reflect on the way advertising used to be done. You would simply place an ad with a company, pay them for running it and it would be exposed to many people.

This could be in several medias; radio, TV, newspaper or online on a web page. The price would be for running the ad for a limited time, and would make it available for all to see. Finally somebody saw the light and figured out that there should be a better way to market online. Of course not all marketing methods gave the same amount of exposure to an ad. For example a busy website would give a lot of exposure to an ad, so why not have a system in place where both advertiser and host could make money?

Well it might not be the brightest idea to raise advertisers prices, you might find that it backfired in your face and business would suffer.

Business might not pick up and your site's reputation would suffer. Enter the idea of pay per click advertising. The advertiser writes a small ad based on a good performing keyword. Then they submit it to the search engines, the ad will come up when its keyword is searched for. Every time a searcher clicks through on the ad the advertiser will pay a small fee to the search engine. This means both advertisers and host make money.

When the search engines saw the potential of this idea they decided to develop it. To get better placements, advertisers were invited to bid higher. The advertiser with the highest bid won the best placement, this gave their ads better exposure. Both search engines and advertisers increased their profits.

Apart from Google and Google Adwords there are other pay per click engines. Many people tend to ignore this fact. Some better alternatives are; Microsoft Adcenter, Yahoo Search and Search Feed. If you want to make a profit with pay per click advertising you will need to explore these other options.

Multiple methods of drawing traffic to your site will help you to develop your business. When you use different pay per click options you can increase your sales and skyrocket your business. - 15275

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