Choosing Between Organic SEO and Pay Per Click: When PPC is Best
Thursday, January 8, 2009 18:24 Written by:Jean H.Setting up a pay per click (PPC) campaign for your business’ website is the way to go when:
a) you want visitors to your site fast
b) and you establish a budget to run a good campaign
PPC works because, when done correctly, your ad will appear in the first one or two pages of a keyword search for your product or services. Internet searchers tend to limit their research to those first two pages of results and if you’re on those pages, you have a great chance of getting potential customers to your website.
You’ll also get this top position quickly - possibly as soon as you start your campaign with your pay per click company. Which means you could get visitors to your site that same day.
PPC can work especially well for a business in a niche market - perhaps a green cleaning service, seller of personal wedding handkerchiefs, an interior plantscaper - because you’ll be using highly targeted keywords and only those people who are looking specifically for what you offer will see your ad.
You can start and run a PPC campaign on your own, of course, yet because it’s important that you find the best targeted keywords for your ad’s campaign so that your ad will appear in the first couple of pages of search results, it’s probably best that you hire a qualified pay per click company. Otherwise you could deplete your PPC campaign budget without getting the results you desire.
In fact, as you hire a pay per click company to manage your campaign, ask them to craft your campaign so that your ad appears between the third and eighth spots on a page. You’ll find that bidding on the first or second slots could grow exceptionally expensive quickly but that slots three to eight are much more affordable without negatively affecting your results.