24 Feb 2008 12:33:15 | Richard Lam
What is the most important thing that you want a Pay-Per-Click
Search Engine to do for your site? Provide you with more
traffic? Yes! That’s right, you might say. But that is
absolutely wrong if that person answering is me.
I don’t want traffic or what I really mean is I don’t really
want unwanted general visitors who won’t be any time interested
in what I’m offering. What I really wanted from the
pay-per-click search engines are highly targeted traffic to our
sites that will be either looking for or interested to buy what
I’m offering.
We all want a highly targeted traffic to our website, but how do
you achieve that? It needs some skills and techniques to get
your site to be ranked #1 in the pay-per-click search engines
(PPCs).
And here are 10 hot tips designed to create the highly targeted
traffic that your website has always wanted to attract.
1.It’s not always the best to be number one in the list. This is
because there are just too many people that will tend to click
on the number spot when they have no intention of buying your
products or services.
2.Make sure that your keyword phrase is in the title as well as
your description. Take as much time as you can to create a
unique description to fit your site. This is because it’s the
site with the best description within the top 3 listing that
most often get that ‘Click’.
3.Your keyword phrases must absolutely fit the content of your
web pages. Overture is especially particular about this.
4.Narrow down your keywords to target your market properly so
that you don’t waste money paying for general visitors. Plus,
using a general keyword to get general audience will only
explode your costs without even getting you any sales.
5.Spend your time effectively by researching more niche keywords
using Overture’s search term suggestion tool:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ or
WordTracker: http://www.wordtracker.com/moreinfo.html
6.As a general rule of thumb, it is better to bid for 10-20
keywords rather than only a few which will not yield as much
results.
7.Choose and bid cautiously on a variety of keywords. The key is
to Test. Under-performing keywords should be replaced by new,
better performing keywords.
8.In the case of using Overture, seriously consider buying a
“Premium Listing” which means you hold the top 3 positions for
that keyword phrase. This is because other major search engines
show only the first listings.
9.Use a tracking service or software to track your traffic from
the PPCs to whichever page you directed them to. This is to
calculate and justify if the cost of advertising on the PPCs is
worth it, considering the number of sales it will bring. Never
send those PPCs traffic to your home page.
10.Try to be as objective as you possibly can in writing your
title and description of your site. Don’t use subjective
languages like “the best” or “number one” but rather in an
objective manner of just listing your product or service
benefits in a unique way.
These are the 10 short tips that can help you in gaining a
better ranking in PPCs and getting that highly targeted ‘Clicks’
that will be worth it if it converts into sales.
About Author :
Richard Lam has already been in the Internet marketing for 2
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