On the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, there are hundreds of thousands of pages if not millions for each search term of keyword. For you to have a site on the first page takes time and money and may be almost impossible on some search terms.

Well the search engines in their determined that they can give you a chance to get on the first page if you are willing to pay them for it. Of course they wouldn’t dream of letting you there for free.

They have designed a way for you to put ads on their sites for specific keywords and phrases. In these ads you can link back to your site. When someone clicks on the ad and goes to your site you pay the search engine a fee.

An advantage to using Pay Per Click Ads is it is a fairly expensive way to enter the market your targeting compared with other means. However, you can easily lose a lot of money if you don’t keep close track on where it is going and what you are gaining or losing by it. Promoting the wrong products or poor products also can cost you money when using Pay Per Click Ads.

With Pay Per Click Ads you can promote your own products or affiliate products. You also can generate leads or build a list of customers that are interested in your niche of products.

It is very important to use relevant keywords in your Pay Per Click Ads to the keywords in your landing page. The quality of the landing page and the relevancy of the keyword or keywords you use in the ad to the actual search engine result is also important. If you score high in these areas your ad will be shown more and actually cost less over time.

You can also use negative keywords in your Pay Per Click Ads. A negative keyword a lot of marketers use is FREE. By adding this negative keyword any where your keyword or keyword phrase is seen with the word Free with it will not show on that page. You can obviously see the advantage in that.

It is very important that you have good Ad Copy in your Pay Per Click Ads. This one thing can mean the difference between succeeding and failing. If you can, offer what people are looking for, be controversial, make a claim, and call them to action.

Besides placing Pay Per Click Ads on the search engines you can also place them in content ad spaces. For example Google Adsense is this type of ad. When a website owner places Adsense ads on his site your ads may show their if you also bid on content placements. Content placements can be automatically selected or you can select them manual. Content placement of Pay Per Click Ads is usually cheaper per click than search engines.

The price you pay is determined by the volume of traffic on the individual site. If you place an ad for $.20 a click with automatic placement it will only show up in ads on sites that have lower volume of traffic and page rank. With Manual placement you find a site that is showing Adsense ads and you can bid to have your Pay Per Click Ad show on their site. This is a very good way to get targeted traffic cheaply.

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