Can Pay-per-click Really Increase Blog Traffic?Written by John Taylor
You want to know if Pay-Per-Click really can increase blog traffic? The answer is: Yes, it can. Thanks for reading this article. Have a nice day.Wow, wouldn't it be great if answer really was that easy? Of course pay-per-click is a great way to get a new pair of eye-balls in front of your world-class blog, but it's not as easy as depositing some money into a PPC account and then watching your traffic counter spin out of control ten minutes later even though Google's web site claims that their Google AdWords campaigns can deliver results in an amazing 15 minutes!. With a new blog appearing on Internet every 7.8 seconds, you've got to have a solid PPC strategy to win hearts and minds of people who are looking for a new blog to identify with. PPC is a strategic investment and, like all strategic investments, it requires expertise and knowledge of how that investment works. The first barrier to running a successful PPC campaign is money. If you are looking to buy traffic for any of "hot property" key words then you might end up paying as much as $5, $10 or even an unbelievable $50 per click. At those prices you'd better be running a blog that has a great monetization potential or you could find yourself in red at end of first day. Of course, there are words available for as low as a dime, and many of those words COULD be as valuable as $50 ones if you know how to pick them.
| | Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 2 of 2)Written by Gary Gray
Last time we discussed how online coupons and promotion codes can motivate buyers. We discussed examples of coupons and some of aspects of these offers that can boost sales and generate urgency to a purchase. Today we’ll focus on how to create great landing pages and use of affiliate programs to further enhance your marketing efforts.Creating good online coupons to offer customers is not only thing you need to do to maximize your sales. Using an enticing landing page that meets customer with deal they’re being offered is also an effective tool leading to a sale. There are two ways that let customer know benefit of coupon they’re using, and both can be equally appealing choices. Option 1 to creating an appealing landing page for a coupon is to restate coupons terms and offers and to reiterate promotion code that needs to be entered upon checkout. This way customer knows they are getting deal they had anticipated receiving, and makes them aware of potential expiration on getting discount. As we discussed in our previous article, that sense of urgency is a good way to provoke your shoppers into a buy mentality. Option 2 takes this a step further by automatically applying coupon at checkout, so when customer gets to checkout page, their discount code is applied and actively showing them their deal. This also benefits customer because they don’t need to go back to get code, where they can be distracted from point of purchase. By adding something to landing page like “Your 10% coupon code will be automatically applied at checkout” in a highly visible area, you are able to keep customers from being confused about what they’re getting. You can also use cookies so next time they visit, if they remember their coupon, they will be more likely to realize they can still get a great discount.
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