Pay Per Performance Advertising is when
advertiser pays a fee based on an action which a visitor to his website takes.Pay Per Performance Advertising could cover several things, such as pay per click advertising,
This type of Pay Per Performance Advertising means that, you list your website in a pay per click search engine, and when someone types in your term and clicks on your website listing, you are charged a fee for that click.
Another type of Pay Per Performance Advertising could be pay per subscriber. What this means is that you will pay a fee for every subscriber that is sent to you through a subscription form.
There are many types of Pay Per Performance Advertising but
ones above are
most common, especially pay per click.
Pay per search is another one. This was done by ask jeeves.com a few years ago, I'm not sure if they still do it though. What basically happened was you would put an askjeeves search box on your website, and whenever someone searched askjeeves through your website, you were paid a small amount each time.
Not recommended for small websites with little traffic. The return just wont be worth it.
Pay per impression is another one. This is quite rare though, or at least it should be. I don't think many, if any websites do pay per impression any more, it's so expensive and easy to make fraudulent impressions. However, in some places CPM is quite popular. This means cost per thousand impressions. So say
CPM was $5, this would mean that for every thousand people that saw your advertisement you would pay $5.
Out of all of
above, I would much prefer paying for every action taken. This way I get what I want, and there is less chance of fraud happening, which is just a waste of my time and money. Sure it costs more, but I think
results are well worth it.
If you are looking for a PPC search engine, then I would definitely recommend overture. They will display your website in several different search engines, making sure you get maximum exposure.