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How PPC can help your company.

By Graham Baylis

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Published: 25Nov2009
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A Pay Per Click or PPC campaign can revolutionise your business. It can turn a business with slow or erratic sales into a busy bustling one, but only if you are prepared to spend some time and money setting up and managing your campaign.

Trade is vital for any business and in order to get trade, customers have to know that you exist. A fast way of getting your company name out there and noticed is by using PPC on the search engines. What you will be doing is bidding on keywords and key phrases associated with your products or services, so that when your advert is clicked, you will pay a fee to the search engine. It is vital therefore, that you choose your keywords and key phrases carefully, so do some research before hand otherwise you could be throwing good money away for no return. And that is what it is all about, getting a good return on what you are spending on advertising.

Setting up your PPC campaign begins with finding keywords and key phrases associated with your products or services. This research will also tell you what people are typing in and looking for on the search engines. Do not choose very vague keywords or choose keywords and phrases which don't really describe what you sell. For instance, if you sell luxury hand made knitwear, it would be inappropriate to use keywords and phrases including things like cheap knitwear as the potential customers who are looking for cheap knitwear are very unlikely to purchase luxury knitwear and you will have spent money on clicks for nothing.

Make sure you have good copy for your adverts and that your website is kept up to date and that the copy on it is keyword rich. Your website should be easy to navigate and if you are selling directly, easy to order from. Make things as easy for potential customers as possible, it is well known that if ordering is difficult or awkward people will just leave and go else where.

Set a sensible advertising budget and stick to it. You can usually set how much you wish to spend per day with the search engines and your adverts will be displayed until that sum has been spent. Avoid a bidding war on specific keyword phrases as this can deplete your budget pretty much in an instant. Watch how much you are spending and compare this amount with the sales made. This will also give you an idea of the return on investment or ROI, which is vital data for your budget management.

Ensure that your website is in full working order and that it is kept updated with news, blogs and articles. Know your products or services so that you can push these towards potential customers. Do not be afraid to terminate a campaign and set up another if it is not working for you. Also, change the copy in your adverts regularly so you can find which approach works the best. Spending time doing proper research and being flexible in your attitude to PPC will pay dividends and can really transform your business.

Graham Baylis works for a business called Serendipity Online Marketing, whose sole aim is to help businesses use the power that the Internet offers. This article is one of his many offerings and tries to help people understand just how Google thinks. For more articles about Search Engine Marketing see www.serendipity-online-marketing.co.uk

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