Online Advertising Methods

By | October 7, 2011

There are many types of Pay Per Click advertising or PPC which can help individuals to effectivley market their business and brand names. Advertising can be expensive but PPC advertising is different to toher types of more expensive methods and it is cost effective because you only pay for visitors that come to your site through an ad campaign that you create with an agency. It is easy to use and quick to work out. Here are a few types of advertising below.

What Is PPC Advertising?

There are many types of Pay Per Click advertising or PPC which can help individuals to effectivley market their business and brand names. Advertising can be expensive but PPC advertising is different to toher types of more expensive methods and it is cost effective because you only pay for visitors that come to your site through an ad campaign that you create with an agency. It is easy to use and quick to work out. Here are a few types of advertising below.

Here are a few more points that Entrepenuers and Advertisers need to ask themselves when considering advertising. Questions maybe:

– Are you as a business/website ready to go into and invest in advertising?

– Have your or your business found the right services/products?

– Where are your target Audiences?

– What investments are you willing to make and how much?

Now you have thought about these things, have these ideas running through your head as you read the different types below, and then you can decide which is best for your business.

Content Related

These are best for compnaies selling products/solutions to problems. For example, if you have a business that sells weight loss supplements, you want people who are looking for weight loss supplements to buy, or advice on how to lose weight, because that is your product line. An advertising agency would place your ad on a sites that provide solutions on how to lose weight (remember this is just an example). Signing up with a ppc advertising agency would be the best way to obtain content related ads. These are the types you might see on article sites.

Search Based

This is mainly for PPC search engines and it is the most popular ppc search engine which Google that made it so. individuals who want to advertise place keyword bids (weight loss, lose weight, diet) with their ad campaign, and when a word is searched for, such as, ‘weight loss’, the strongest bid that placed the largest amount/bid for that keyword will appear as sponsored listings; search engine users are likely to click on the sponsored ads as they come up at the top of search engines. You can make use of keyword tools which can help you find out which keywords get most searches or which ones would be best for your business.

Social Networking

Some social networking sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook have an option to advertise with them. It works the same as Search based and content based methods. Advertisers have the opportunity to restrict campaigns to certain countries or individuals’ interests and hobbies. If someone likes to lose weight in England, and your company is based in England, you can select these options for your ad campaign.

It soes not take a large amount to invest into ppc advertising, if you can find the a great advertising agency that has a low deposit level. I hope this article had opened your mind to different types of ppc.