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Posts Tagged ‘pay per click’

Costly PPC Mistakes

By admin On October 23, 2008 No Comments

 Yahoo and Google both offer pay per click advertising across content,  search partner networks and search engine page results. There are distinct differences between each and not knowing the difference can syphon cash from your bank account. 

Search Networks for Google examples include AOL.com, Ask.com, CNN. your ads will appear in search result pages on those networks.

Partner/Publisher Network examples for Yahoo! include iVilliage, USA Today, NBC your ads will appear in search result pages on those networks.

The advantages of having your PPC ads appear in the partner networks is the immediate increase in reach for your ads.

Content partners usually offer contextual ads. Your ads appear on a page with a story or content, not search results.  In this setting the search engine determines if the content of the page is relevant to your ad and keywords.  The user is not necessarily in “shop mode” when viewing contextual ads.

The worst example of this type of advertising gone wrong

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