PPC is a whole new ballgame

Fri, Sep 1, 2006

SEO, Web

PPC is basically an advertising model for online advertising where advertisers pay only if their ads are clicked on. Sounds simple enough, but actually there is really more to it. I have been playing around with SEO since late 2004 and I was a strict believer of SEO then and believe that it is more effective than a PPC campaign. But as more and more competition come out in the search engine marketing space, SEO and PPC skills have just evolved like a whole new science. And as more competitive the online advertising space becomes, more and more techniques come out and the whole PPC game is something some people really specialize in. And in any business, one of the biggest rules to earn money is simply buy low, sell high. And having an avertising budget is something you really want to minimize and have the biggest resulting effort in sales.

This can sometimes be learned alone on how to maximize your PPC campaigns, but some small business owners sometimes need to require more time devoted in more important decision matters in running their business. And in some cases, it may be better to get help from a PPC management agency, which the cost in getting an company to do this for you may even save you more time and more money. Although if time is on your side, you can always study your own PPC strategy yourself, there are many resources online, and a good place to start is with the PPCbook. I just recently bought my PPC and it just came in the mail today. Definitely a good read that I will finish real quickly. Even with my current SEO knowledge, PPC is just something I need to know more about. I believe this book should be a part of everyone’s PPC/SEO Library.

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Benj Arriola - who has written 142 posts on action online.

Started a career as a chemist. Worked in the industry and academe and pursued a master's degree in chemistry. Then one day, here I go, start a computer shop, then web company in 1999, won a few awards and just started a web career working on websites of various companies and making sure the websites work for them.

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