I’ve decide to take a venture into pay per click marketing. Why? Well, to learn about it and to have a chance at another stream of online income so I can make money online. I don’t expect pay per click marketing to be easy - in fact I’m am absolutely positive that I will not make money on my first few attempts. From what I’ve read pay per click (ppc) can be tricky - it can be a game of trial and error and keeping track of what works and what doesn’t.

What is Pay Per Click Marketing
Here is what pay per click marketing means to me: You know when you see those ads in search results on Google, Yahoo, MSN, or other search engines? People are paying to put those ads there and most all are paying Per Click which is where pay per click comes from. The marketing idea is to get people to see your ppc ad when the search, or in an adsense ad on some other site, click on it to visit your site, and complete some kind of action that makes you money. These actions can range from buying a product, submitting information, or just gaining page views to help increase your popularity and get advertiser for your site.

So, you want to make sure that your ppc costs are less than your products profit margin - in other words you make more from your product than you spend on your ppc campaign. Say you are paying $0.25 every time someone clicks on your ad and your product, or action, nets you $2.00 profit for each sale or action completed. Well, the ideal outcome would be that you complete a sale or action before the 8th click (the 8th click breaks even: $0.25 * 8 = $2.00) - these are just example numbers that I randomly came up with. Hopefully, you won’t have to pay $0.25 per click - that just depends on how much competition there is for your keywords. And you never know - you might convert on 3 or 4 clicks in a row and then get nothing for the next 8 clicks.

Of course, I wouldn’t jump into anything completely blind. I am new to ppc and affiliate marketing in general, but I have been doing some research - picking up some techniques and tips along the way. Hopefully I will be able to put them to use and make money online using pay per click marketing.

I’ll keep you up to date with my progress - good or bad - and let you in on any tips or techniques I find useful. You can learn as I learn. Hopefully I will be making money online using pay per click marketing withing the next few weeks (depending on how much time I can devote to it).

Michael Hargis

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