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What is Search Engine Marketing or Pay Per Click?

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What is search engine marketing and how does it differ from search engine optimization? Search engine marketing is the process of strategically placing advertising on search engines in order to drive quality visitors to your web site. Visitors obtained from this method of advertising are quality visitors because the advertising is targeted directly at those that are in search of specific products or services that you offer.

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The above is also the major benefit of this type of advertising as visitors to your site through Search Engine Marketing will have much higher potential of converting into a sale for your company.

A PPC or Pay per click campaign as it is named means that you only pay per click which means you will only pay when one of these quality visitors visits your web site. Pay Per Click is even more cost effective than normal banner on-line advertising because you don't pay for millions of ad impressions, served to visitors that are not really interested in buying your products or services.

Search Engine Marketing is also highly measurable because of its, as we like to call it, an on-line paper trail. We can track a visitor from the time he clicks on your ad all the way to where he leaves your web site, or even when he reaches the goal that you want to reach with this kind of advertising. A goal is defined by you prior to commencement of your campaign and is an action that you value as important, this  would  be an end result of a visitors visit you would prefer to reach. We can even then determine what search phrases are visitors that reach these goals are using to find your web site. By having this information at our finger tips we are able to vastly improve your return on investment, increasing with each passing month.

Google Adwords is the platform that we use to advertise on Google and is the biggest of it's kind in the world. Adwords has turn Google into the multi billion dollar company that it is today. This platform is extremely effective and has helped several companies to achieve major success. Google Adwords is probably the platform that made Pay Per Click advertising famous. Pay Per Click advertising work on a simple bidding principle; the higher you bid the higher your ad will display. That is the simple just of it. In actual fact there are plenty of other factors that Google has developed to make sure the ad that is served is relevant to the search that triggers it. They call this a Quality Score and this enforces that the end user has the best experience when using Google. 

Google Adwords
Search Marketing is the platform use to advertise on Yahoo. Although it is not able to target visitor from South Africa, some cleverly thought up keyword can ensure that your advertising reaches users from any country you may prefer to target. Search Marketing is also based on the Pay Per Click model that was made famous by Google but has it's own set of rules that makes it unique. We seen great success by using Search Marketing and Google as it is possible to reach different users in the event of using only Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing.

Why do you need an expert? In order to make Search Engine Marketing work, you need to give it constant attention as well as "love and care" to enable it to grow. With 8 years of experience behind us, we will manage your campaign in such a way that it can only be a success, be it big or small.

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