Top 10 Pay Per Click Search Engines

Top 10 Pay Per Click Search Engines

Pay Per Click Universe would like to present you with a list of the largest and oldest pay-per-click search engines currently available on the web. While there are over 500 PPC search engines operating at this time, these 10 are the most popular that produce over 85% of all the PayPerClick searches. Keep in mind that while they produce the most amount of traffic, there is quite a bit of competition, which brings the bid prices higher than their smaller counterparts.

We have reviewed each of these search engines, based on its usability, features, popularity, and many other factors. We also allow our visitors to post their personal reviews about any particular search engine. You are encouraged to read them, in order to gain a better understanding if the search engine is right for you, as well as post your own, if you have any experience with them.

There are currently over 500 minor Pay Per Click search engines operating on the web. They provide small business owners and webmasters with an excellent, low cost way to advertise their products and services, as the competition on these search engines is much lower than on the Top 10.

As with the Top 10, we have reviewed each of these search engines, based on its usability, features, popularity, and many other factors. We also allow our visitors to post their personal reviews about any particular search engine. You are encouraged to read them, in order to gain a better understanding if the search engine is right for you, as well as post your own, if you have any experience with them.

We post reviews on new search engines several times per month, so make sure to return to our website on a regular basis for latest updates.


Top 10 Pay Per Click Search Engines

1.Google AdWords
2.Yahoo! Search Marketing
3.ABC Search
4.SearchFeed
5.7Search
6.MIVA
7.Enhance Interactive
8.Findology
9.Microsoft adCenter
10.Ask.com

Google AdWords (Pay Per Click)

Google AdWords

Since 1998, Google has grown from a two-man operation to what is arguably the largest and currently most popular search engine on the Internet. Most agree that Google garners more than 50% of all search traffic, with some estimates as high as 80%.

The clean interface (recently patented), its broad access to products still in development (but relatively bug-free), and well-supported advertising package (AdWords) appeal to the majority of users and advertisers.

Starting an AdWords campaign is fairly straightforward, but a Starter Edition offers an even simpler interface (minus some features).

Local search with advanced mapping via Google Earth, day-parting, geo-targeting, site targeting, free Google Analytics, the choice of contextual advertising, site map generation, Webmaster Central—the list of options and useful tools for advertisers to choose from is long and varied.

The Google paid ad display is the industry standard. An ad appears along the right side of the search results page or within content pages if content search is on. Recent changes in ranking parameters concentrate not just on bids, but also on the quality and relevance of your ad and the landing page associated with your ad (and indeed your entire website). This “Quality Score” concept has led to keywords becoming inactive for search plus reports of many huge jumps in keyword pricing.

The Google network includes entities such as AOL, Ask.com, Netscape, EarthLink, AT&T WorldNet, and CompuServe. Content partners include About.com, The New York Times, US News & World Report, and CBS Sportsline.

Advertisers are guided along the way when opening an account, provided with numerous tutorials, and given access to a variety of tools to help you track and optimize your bidding and keyword choices. With a searchable support database, almost any question can be answered in seconds.

Pay-Per-Click advertisements (PPC)

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Advertisers specify the words that should trigger their ads and the maximum amount they are willing to pay per click. When a user searches Google's search engine on www.google.com, ads for relevant words are shown as "sponsored link" on the right side of the screen, and sometimes above the main search results.

The ordering of the paid listings depends on other advertisers' bids (pay for placement P4P) and the "quality score" of all ads shown for a given search. The quality score is calculated by historical click-through rates and the relevance of an advertiser's ad text, keyword, and landing page to the search, as determined by Google. The quality score is also used by Google to set the minimum bids for an advertiser's keywords.

Pros:

- Excellent set of tutorials and searchable support database ensures that any question you may have about AdWords is answered as quickly as possible.

- Google’s searches are the fastest on the Internet today, so your PPC ad will have a better chance of reaching your audience, with few reasons for a visitor to cancel the search because it is perceived as being too slow.

- A low $5 startup fee, and many promotions offered.

- No monthly minimum amount of spending required.

- Local targeting of ads for those users who prefer to shop online and buy locally.

- Comprehensive, free web analytics package.

Cons:

- Many factors relating to how “Quality Score” is defined can lead to disabling of keywords or high keyword costs.

- No clear definition of “invalid clicks" (fraudulent clicks).

Google Adsense

Google Adsense

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Google Adsense is one of the most successful online advertising programs today. This website is a guide to the Adsense program, that describes all major aspects, tips and optimizations of the program to help you have the best experience with Google Adsense.

AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service.

Google utilizes its search technology to serve ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and other factors. Those wanting to advertise with Google's targeted ad system may sign up through AdWords. AdSense has become a popular method of placing advertising on a website because the ads are less intrusive than most banners, and the content of the ads is often relevant to the website.

Currently, the AdSense uses JavaScript code to incorporate the advertisements into a participating site. If it is included on a site which has not yet been crawled by the Mediabot, it will temporarily display advertisements for charitable causes known as public service announcements (PSAs). (Note that the Mediabot is a separate crawler from the Googlebot that maintains Google's search index.)

Many sites use AdSense to monetize their content and some webmasters work hard to maximize their own AdSense income. They do this in three ways:

1. They use a wide range of traffic generating techniques including but not limited to online advertising.

2. They build valuable content on their sites which attracts AdSense ads which pay out the most when they get clicked.

3. They use copy on their websites that encourage clicks on ads. Note that Google prohibits people from using phrases like "Click on my AdSense ads" to increase click rates. Phrases accepted are "Sponsored Links" and "Advertisements".

The source of all AdSense income is the AdWords program which in turn has a complex pricing model based on a Vickrey second price auction, in that it commands an advertiser to submit a sealed bid (not observable by competitors). Additionally, for any given click received, advertisers only pay one bid increment above the second-highest bid.

As a webmaster, Google's Adsense program can be a possible income stream from your website, an income that can range from a few dollars to several lacks dollars in a month....

Many hours have gone into researching the content for this website, and it will be constantly updated with the latest content related to Google Adsense.

The Google Adsense program is a great alternative, or even replacement, for the outdated banner programs. Today more and more internet users have gone "blind" to banner advertising, and thereby threatening your advertisement income as a webmaster.

Here is what Google writes about it's adsense program:

"Google Adsense is the programme that can generate advertising revenue from each page on your website—with a minimal investment in time and no additional resources.

Adsense delivers relevant ads that are precisely targeted on a page-by-page basisto the content people find on your site. And when you add a Google search box to your site, Adsense delivers relevant ads that are targeted to the Google search results pages generated by your visitors’ search request.

You can customize the appearance of ads, choosing from a wide range of colours and templates. You can do the same with your search results page. Your reports are customizable, too. Flexible reporting tools let you group your pages in any way you want so you can view your results by URL, domain, ad type, category and more to learn where your earnings are coming from."Google Adsense ads, are highly content relevant ads, that are served directly on your pages - without your intervention. For you as a webmaster, this means that you simply paste the Google Adsense code on your pages, and thereafter have a constantly updated and relevant advertising income.

You can see an example of Google's Adsense on the top of this page.

The Google Adsense program serves ads generated by AdWords users on Adsense publishers web page's. The Adsense ad layout can be fully customized to fit your existing website design, in regards to both size, placement, colours and much more.

Please bookmark this page, and recommend it to anyone interested in learning about Google Adsense.

Contextual advertising

Contextual advertising is the term applied to advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile phones, where the advertisements are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed by the user.

Google AdSense was the first major contextual advertising program. It worked by providing webmasters with JavaScript code that, when inserted into web pages, called up relevant advertisements from the Google inventory of advertisers. The relevance was calculated by a separate Google bot that indexed the content of the page.

Since the advent of AdSense, the Yahoo! Publisher Network, Microsoft adCenter and others have been gearing up to make similar offerings.

Contextual advertising has made a major impact on earnings of many websites. As the ads are more targeted they are more likely to get clicked, thus generating revenue for the owner of the website (and the server of the advertisement). A large part of Google's earnings are from their share of the contextual ads served on the millions of webpages running the Adsense program.


Advertising on a Web site that is targeted to the specific individual who is visiting the Web site. A contextual ad system scans the text of a Web site for keywords and returns ads to the Web page based on what the user is viewing, either through ads placed on the page or pop-up ads. For example, if the user is viewing a site about sports, and the site uses contextual advertising, the user might see ads for sports-related companies, such as memorabilia dealers or ticket sellers. Contextual advertising also is used by search engines to display ads on their search results pages based on what word(s) the users has searched for.

Contextual advertising has attracted some controversy through the use of techniques such as third-party hyperlinking, where a third-party installs software onto a user’s computer that interacts with the browser by turning keywords on a Web page into links that lead to advertisers that are not paying the Web site to advertise on its pages. A contextual ad is the advertisement that dynamically appears on a Web site.

Classification of Marketing

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors and various types of affiliates/publishers who utilize a number of different methods to advertise the products and services of their merchant/advertiser partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates are using the same methods as most of the merchants themselves do. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, email marketing and to some degree display advertising.


Affiliate marketing - using one site to drive traffic to another - is the stepchild of online marketing. While search engines, e-mail and RSS capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing, despite lineage that goes back almost to the beginning of online retailing, carries a much lower profile. Yet affiliates continue to play a fundamental role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.



Compensation methods

Compensation methods (Remuneration), Pricing models and business models used for the different types of Internet marketing, including Affiliate marketing, Contextual advertising, Search engine marketing (including vertical comparison shopping search engines and local search engines) and Display advertising.

Online Advertising For Internet Marketing

Online Advertising is advertising on the Internet.

Online Advertising is promoting products and services using the World Wide Web. As more of the world's population look to the internet for news and information, Online Advertising is growing in popularity. Advertising online is a simple and cost effective way to advertise and is fast taking it's share of the market from more tradditional forms of print and broadcast advertising.

Using 'keywords' users or customers are able to refine their search for a particular product or service. Advertisers bid on these keywords and search engines match them to businesses that are listed under these words or catagories. This provides a positive search experience for users who can otherwise become frustrated searching through thousands of listings before finding what they want. Businesses benifit because people who want to purchase their products or services are directed to their site, increasing their return on their investment i.e. sales.

Businesses can also use the internet to keep in touch with customers through newsletters, chatgroups and promotions.

Advertising Online can be positive and legitimate, or an invasion of personal privacy. Legitimate online advertising includes search engine advertising, desktop advertising, online advertising directories, advertising networks and opt-in e-mail advertising. Illigitimate advertising is dominated by spamming.

Though the range of advertising options has expanded since in the commercialization of the Internet, the use of rich media and static images is extremely popular. As the online audience continues to grow, so will the online market.


Internet marketing is the practice of using all facets of internet advertising to generate a response from your audience. It ties together both the creative and technical aspects of the internet, including design, development, advertising and marketing. Internet Marketing methods include search engine marketing, display advertising, e-mail marketing, affiliate marketing, interactive advertising and viral marketing