Saturday, June 30, 2007

Getting instant traffic to any website - from marketing to nursing to pink elephants it really can be done

Many webmasters will be driven to despair with the mass of information surrounding the area of SEO [ search engine optimization ]. We all read the latest articles and information and it seems that the best methods seem to be out of date within months or even weeks of us gaining this new found knowledge. Well don't despair becaue there is one method that is constant and can help just about any webmaster regardless of his topic, Tea,nursing,sea food it really doesn't matter just read on and I will tell you how to do it.



As more and more ecommerce sites are established, the need to be on top and ahead of the pack has never been more important. A web site owner must have a good marketing strategy to ensure that his site will attract highly targeted traffic – a very important and sought-after entity in the world of ecommerce. Advertising your site is a priority if you want to attract visitors and turn in a profit. One of the fastest, most effective and most popular advertising strategies today is Pay per Click advertising.



Pay per click advertising is a type of online advertising wherein you pay for visitors on a cost per click basis. You will only pay for when a web searcher actually clicks on the link to your website. Instead of paying according to how many times your ad is displayed in a website, as in traditional online advertising, you will not pay anything in a pay per click advertising unless someone clicks on your ad or link.



Pay per click search engines work by allowing advertisers to sign up and bid on particular keywords related to the products or services offered in their website. The advertiser bids for a priority location in the pay per click company's search results displayed whenever a web surfer searches for a particular keyword. The higher the ranking of a site's link, the better the chances of getting high traffic. The pay per click search engine displays the advertiser's links in an order that is determined by the amount of their bids. Some pay per click advertisements are text ads placed near search results. When a web user clicks on that text ad, the pay per click search engine charges the advertiser a small amount.



If for instance my subject was indeed about nursing then I would simply bid on nursing related keywords,nursing degree,nursing career, as many words relating to my subject as I could come up with.You will be surprised at the amount of words that you can associatte with your particular target or area. There are however times when you run into a lttle trouble compiling your list but do not despair because there are countless great tools scattered about the internet that will help you complete this task with the greatest of ease.



Prices vary among pay per click search engine, but minimum prices per click is US$0.01 per click. However, more popular search terms and keywords that are highly contested may fetch a higher price. If you place the highest bid for a particular keyword then your site will rank high in the pay per click search listing for that particular keyword. You can expect more clicks on your sites link since it is now prominently displayed. However, you should not focus on the amount of clicks you get but rather on the conversion and return of investment. Thus, pay per click may be a great method of bringing in traffic, but your site must offer what the prospective client is looking for so that he will make a purchase or avail of a service.



The most popular pay per click systems in the internet today includes Google Adwords and Yahoo's Overture. They offer excellent opportunities for website owners since these are the two most popular search engines in the web today. Meanwhile, there are other categories of pay per click engines. These are the Keyword pay per click and Product pay per click. What we have discussed above is the keyword PPC. A product pay per click, on the other hand, lets advertisers provide "feeds" of their product databases. Whenever a user searches for a particular product, the search engine offers links to different advertisers with priority given to those who pay more. However, product pay per clicks let the user sort the results by price so that they can choose the lowest priced product.



I myself do indeed co-own a website themed on the subject of nursing and although my rankings are terrible through the use of PPC traffice I am able top generate an amount of traffic that any self respecting webmaster would be more than happy with, Best of all its 100 percent targeted traffic. The best bit opf advice I could give on this subject is test as many different PPC services as you can as some work best with different subjects. The most successful of the big boys will tell you that testing is the secret. Spend a few dollars testing and once you ge it right try another subject, Why stop when you have found something that works.Suzanne Verita is the owner of Start
Nursing which is a
premier source of information about nursing. For more
information, go to: http://startnursing.com

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