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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Is PPC Advertising Worth It? Do the Math

You read in many sources that pay-per-click advertising is a great way to get quality targeted traffic to your site.  While you must be wary of PPC scams and abuses like click fraud from competitors, the PPC advertising model works well and has proven track record of success.
But under the PPC advertising model umbrella there are different types of PPC programs with different cost structures. How much should you pay per click? Is it better to pay a flat rate or participate in bid-based PPC advertising?  The search engines sites like MSN, Google and Yahoo use the bid-based PPC system exclusively.  The shopping sites and most other advertising hosts use the flat rate program.
So which cost system is best for your business?  How do you figure out the cost-per-click that is right for you?  There are tools available to help you calculate the return on investment (ROI) from a PPC advertising program.  These can be formulas or algorithms that incorporate and quantify a number of factors and considerations in order to arrive at a reasonably accurate ROI calculation.
You can also pay for the services of a professional B2B expert or planner who can help insure that an ROI calculation is properly set up with your unique business in mind.
Whichever way you do it, make no mistake that doing the math is critically important to the success of your PPC advertising campaign.  If you get it wrong, your money spent won't be an investment in your business that pays a return, it will just be another expense that shrinks your bottom line.
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