PPC offers Improved ROI and Quick Results
Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising (also known as paid or sponsored search) is a valuable online marketing channel that works well to drive immediate and targeted traffic to your website.

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, June 05, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marketers are constantly on the look-out for new ways to improve their customer acquisition process, yet few companies consider online channels. Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising (also known as paid or sponsored search) is a valuable online marketing channel that works well to drive immediate and targeted traffic to your website. Return on investment (ROI) is the name of the game with PPC, as cost per acquisition can be calculated easily.

Advantages of PPC Advertising

PPC advertising has many advantages. Over and above channelling targeted traffic to an advertiser's site quickly, PPC is also incredibly flexible. The advertiser can make changes to the adverts while they are running, and these changes will be reflected almost immediately. There's the added benefit of opting into advertising on content networks. This means that text as well as banner adverts will be displayed alongside contextually relevant content on participating third party sites, generating further exposure for the brand.

Furthermore, results from a PPC campaign are completely measurable, and through tweaking and testing, the advertiser can ensure they receive the highest Click-Through-Rate (CTR) possible. For marketers, this is a significant advantage as they can test and tweak different adverts and landing pages until they find the perfect combination of keywords and phrases.

Lead Conversion

Landing pages play a very important role in a PPC campaign. You want to ensure that once a searcher has clicked on an advert or banner, they convert to a lead. Therefore, the page they land on has to be relevant to the content of the advert they clicked. If it isn't, the user will click back to the search results to find more relevant information. The landing page has to be easy to navigate, feature relevant product information and include proper calls to action and/or contact information.

How can your company use PPC? A paid search campaign is a great solution to create additional brand awareness or to increase leads near immediately. PPC is highly targeted which allows advertisers to reach niche audiences with carefully selected keywords and site targeting.

For maximum results, the integration of organic search marketing efforts yield the best results due to the Google Quality Score ranking methodology. This algorithm seeks to determine how relevant paid keywords are in relation to their landing pages. The better optimised those landing pages are, the higher the Quality Score, the better the PPC campaign is able to perform. A Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) campaign also drives traffic to a website, but it can take time to see results. PPC ensures that a website is visible on the SERPs for keywords that the site is not yet ranking for organically.

Running a PPC campaign requires a continuous investment of time as it needs testing, tweaking and monitoring on a daily basis. If you're looking for virtually instant results to improve your lead conversion process, PPC is the way to go!

Your complimentary PPC audit awaits

Interested to know how AlterSage can help you? If you have an existing PPC campaign, we'll give you an objective evaluation of its status. If your company has not yet tested this marketing channel but would like to know how PPC can increase leads and sales through your website, talk to us about conducting a test campaign.

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