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Two Important PPC Abbreviations

Prasad Shejale — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:23:12 +0000

Pay per click is a form of Internet Marketing where the sponsor has to pay a set amount for every click on his listing/ad campaign. There are a number of different abbreviations associated with PPC. Two important acronyms are listed below:

CPC: Cost per click defines the charge you pay to the search engine for each click on your adverts. If your ad is displayed for a search query but the visitor doesn’t click it, you don’t incur any cost.
CTR: Click-through rate is a measure of your account performance. Usually the higher the CTR the better is the account performance. CTR is calculates as number of ad clicks/number of impressions x 100

Pay Per Click – Measurable ROI

Rohit Chugh — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:45:12 +0000

In Pay-Per-Click type of Internet marketing the advertisers pays an amount every time their ad is clicked by a prospective customer. This is also known as the click-through rate (CTR); both of these are integral part of web optimization.

Pay per click marketing is lucrative and measurable in terms of return of investment ROI. There are various methods of quantifying the ROI in PPC marketing. One important tool is tracking user actions like buying product, requesting a brochure/newsletter or even more information. This explains the users who have only viewed a page and those who have actually turned into clients. This also helps in calculating the number of sales against spending.

There are no strict rules in pay per click advertising or marketing and with extensive online tools available to optimize Internet marketing, measuring the returns is a simple process. The true measure of a business profit is the piling order request transforming to orders and subsequently getting the aimed revenue.

Increase Click Through Ratio

Prasad Shejale — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:10:41 +0000

As per one of the news item and study conducted; if you display pay pal logo on your Yahoo Yahoo! Search Marketing ads then the possibility of Click Through Ratio going up is high.

In case you are using Pay Pal for processing your online sales then Pay Pal allows use of logo. You can show the ads with logo. It in turn helps increase the CTR.