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Driving Traffic through Paid Methods- Tara McGovern

by Taramcgoo Novice(April 2008) (rank 500+)
 
 
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You have spent precious time and money developing you company’s website ensuring it is user friendly.You want people to see it right? Well just having a well designed site won’t guarantee visitors to your site. You need an online marketing strategy to help drive traffic to your pages.

Pay Per Click (PPC) with Google Adwords is a reliable and economical way of getting advertised on the Google Network. You are able to determine which words and phrases are used for your advert as well as the budget you want to work with. When a user is searching Google for those terms you can bid on how high it appears on the Ad listings. When they click on your advert they will be taken to the suitable page on your website. The great thing about PPC is you are able to get traffic as soon as your Ad is running. You are able to test your ad and refine it until you fell you are attracting the right market. Another fantastic feature of PPC is you get to control how much you want to spend on your ad campaign. If your clicks begin to cost you too much you are able to lessen the cost per click or even pause that particular advert. You are in charge! As a result of the clicks you are able to judge which products/service generates the most interest. Another way of increasing your exposure on the web is to join up with an Affiliate Program - basically a business partner site. This is a valuable tool to promote your product /service on a website which is relative to your company in some manner. Affiliate Marketing is a cost effective way of driving traffic to your site. For each sale you generate because of traffic driven to your website from your Affiliate partner site, they receive a portion of the sale. In this day and age of social networking it is even possible to use platforms such as the ever present Facebook to gain exposure for your company. However it is vital not to get carried away and ensure your affiliate’s websites are designed to help sell your product/service. You do not want loads of banners and pop-ups distracting your potential client. Check that the sales copy, privacy policy, product guarantees and after sales service are all in order. Your priority is to figure out if their product/service will encourage the visitor to make a purchase. It is advisable to go for an affiliate program that only focuses on one product/service per page. Ensure that your affiliates are reputable as you do not want to be connected to a partner site with a dodgy reputation. Affiliate Marketing is getting increasingly popular as people realise the value of having an inbuilt market built into their affiliate partner site. If you offer a unique product/service that appeals to a niche market it is even more valuable to advertise on a website that caters and understands that market AlterSage online marketers are specialists in all ways that will not only identify your target audience, but drive qualified traffic to your website.
 
 

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Re: Driving Traffic through Paid Methods- Tara McGovern

Marc-Loveridge
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April 2008

A good intro for somebody starting new to PPC.

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Re: Driving Traffic through Paid Methods- Tara McGovern

Taramcgoo
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October 15th

Thanks Mark glad you approve :)

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