The 3 Benefits Of Running A Pay-Per-Click Advert Campaign

Three benefits, you ask? Merely three? What, are you kidding or something?

Well, I say, what’s wrong with three? The number three is more than good enough for many different situations. In the Vatican, they’ve got the Trinity of the Son, the Father and the Holy Ghost. On television, there are reruns of Three’s Company. In baseball, it’s “Three strikes and you’re out!” And with pay-per-click advertising campaigns in the online world (think Google Adwords), also fondly termed simply PPC (and no, that’s not some kind of brain-scrambling chemical that turns you into a raging, drooling monster being billy-clubbed by cops outside your favorite whiskey bar), we have three benefits. This PPC stuff is an extremely popular option for Internet marketers looking to make a killing selling whatever sells online by placing cute little text adverts of just a few lines, like a title and two lines of copy, on a special reserved section of a search engine page. And that brings us to another three things, that is, the three biggies in the search engine universe, Google, Yahoo and Bing. Most PPC advertisers place their cute little adverts on the search results pages of one of these three search engines, hopefully, from the advertiser’s point of view, on page one, in that many people probably won’t bother even looking at page two and certainly not page three, although I tend to look at page thirteen myself just because I was born on the Thirteenth (of October if you’re curious, or even if you’re not, and I would like, oh, say, three pair of silk-cotton mixed-weave socks, thank you very much). The notion is that PPC advertising will help you get a bunch of bucks and/or capture the names and emails of people who click on these links leading to a sales page or a lead capture page most often. Of course, to varying degrees, your success is dependent on your budget. Anyway, without further ado, let’s now take a look at these three so-called benefits that are provided by the wonderful world of pay-per-click advertising:

Benefit Number One. Do you know who Michael Douglas is? How about Catherine Zeta-Jones? If you are in the dark about these two individuals, you might well be overjoyed to learn that they are famous Hollywood movie stars. Not only that, but they are a married couple. Still more startling information is that in fact they have appeared in a film together entitled Traffic, which by a bizarre turn of affairs is also what the first benefit of pay-per-click advertising I wish to inform you of is, trumpets on the ramparts — TRAFFIC!!! Now, the movie Traffic and the PPC Traffic differ in certain ways. For one, if my guess is correct, the word “traffic” in the motion picture is most lkely a verb, as in “to traffic in something”, in this case that something being drugs and not humans, if I recall the storyline in its essence. But with pay-per-click advertising the term “traffic” is a noun, said noun representing actual human beings and not drugs. Do you see where I’m headed with this? Movie, verb, illegal drugs. PPC (not a drug), noun, Internet surfers searching for thigs on the ole World Wide Web. I hope I have made this point clear to you. If I haven’t it’s your fault and not mind, but please, just keep reading, don’t run away to a corner and cry. Geez, some people! Where was I? Alright, yes, online traffic can be purchased quite inexpensively using a pay-per-click campaign by bidding for keywords that those traffic people use when searching for stuff on the Net, and this type of online traffic, which is purchased, is for the most part going to be delivered to your sales or landing page much more quickly than organic traffic, unpurchased (except for the time involved in SEO . . . but this article is not about SEO, so in case you have no clue what SEO stands for, well, that doesn’t matter right now except that it is organic, meaning there is no fertilizer of some sort stinking everything up, like filthy green lucre, for one, and that, well, yeah, exactly, you don’t have to pay for it, except with time, and lots of it). In other words, or actually more or less the same words, PPC traffic can be had for a relatively low price, if you know what you’re doing, and quite instantaneously.

Benefit Number Two. Do you know what a branding iron is? In the event that you are a complete moron and have no idea, I will explain. A branding iron is not used to press your pants. No, not at all. Rather, it’s a torture implement used by cowboys for ranchers to help most often bovine babies learn about the eventual harsh realities of fast food chains and carnivorous appetites, this device being a length of metal, probably iron — although I suppose it could be steel, perhaps even stainless steel in that, you know, sometimes it rains on ranches . . . anyway, I digress. A length of metal, right. On one end of this branding iron there is a handle, and on the other end is the branding part, which has a certain, patterned, flat cookie-cutter-looking thing that when used properly leaves an impression on the surface of that which is branded by means of pain and pressure. This impression remains in the form of a scar both physical and emotional because, cows have feelings too. Haven’t you ever looked into the big sad eyes of a Bessie the Holstein mooing at you from the mushroom fields you’re trespassing on? Well, whatever. This impression, this brand seared on the flank of a little, innocent calf, indicates capitalistic ownership. It says, this cow belongs to me. And I am someone, someone you must sit up and take heed of, someone you should respect, a VIP, a personage of prestige, and I am as rich as Midas, so pay attention you mere minions and kiss my ring. In other words, PPC campaigns can be used to identify oneself to a market niche population that only wants to buy your product and will return over and over to procure your stuff because you are the most reputable and well-known online provider of said good. Yes, PPC is good for branding, but in this case there is no blistering heat scarring your skin, no chance that you are going to suffer injury, unless of course you get burned in the process of paying too much cash to Yahoo to secure those clicks, which would mean that your self-branding efforts aren’t working out so well and it might be time to go back to the drawing board, or maybe the ranch. However, if through your PPC advertising you are getting quality traffic and improving the organic search results of the website you are advertising, the more often a cyber surfer sees your ad, the more your name and reputation stick in the surfer’s mind, the more you are branded as a good person to buy from. More eyes more often means more trust. More trust equals more sales. Sometimes branding feels wonderful.

Benefit Number Three. What does it mean to convert, you wonder? Then again, you might not, but that is of no concern to yours truly because I am going to answer that instead of the willfully incurious. And it is a curious answer because of the depth of feeling involved in at least one of the situations within which there is a connection to aforementioned question, that being, in some circumstances it means to switch from one to another of an institutional religious corporation, or faith, if you prefer, such as a lamb of the Christian persuasion changing stripes, or fleece actually, to the dreadlocks of Rastafarianism because a little herbal enjoyment is not going to see you later burning in damnation forever, or should I say it, a Muslim becoming a Jew because it might be less socially taxing to enjoy the occasional bacon and eggs breakfast. The reasons and motivations inspiring a religious conversion in fact far out-number the religions to convert to, so much so that others may be confused by such a decision, but you will never run out of ways to explain said conversion if pressed to do so. Actually, you can just make up a reason if you want (which the closed-minded would probably call “an excuse”), and depending on the religion you convert to, that might even be okay, but don’t ask me which religions those would be because, basically, I’m not interested, however curious I might be. And believe me, I am curious, so have a little faith, okay? The reason for my lack of interest in which faiths, speaking of faith, condone the telling of little white lies is that I am more interested in another type of conversion, the one that has something to do with the subject of this piece of writing. Go figure, huh? I mean, after all, we are talkig about pay-per-click search engine advertising, are we not? In fact, this form of conversion is in regard to a rather unholy alliance, if you’re thinking in religious terms, between Man, Machine and Money, and keeping track of how much money the machine eats up before producing individuals who will give even more money back to you. You see, with PPC advertising campaigns, it is quite simple to track the conversion of clicks to dollars. All the information is right there for you to see where you can compare the number of individualshicks who merely click on your cute little advert with the people who actually take further action purchase your product. It’s a simple matter of just figuring out what all the statistics on your campaign page mean and then planning your PPC budget accordingly.

So, there you have it, laid out very clearly for you (if you can read between the lines), the three benefits of using pay-per-click search engine advertising to earn an income.