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The Concept Of Pay Per Click ( Ppc ) Marketing Essay

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The concept of pay-per-click (PPC) marketing arose in the 1990’s, at roughly the same time as the internet started to gain global traction. There are conflicting sources in when precisely PPC began, some citing 1996 and Planet Oasis (ROIMarketing, 2014), whilst Morgan & Gurner suggest that it was 1998 when GoTo.com created the concept of PPC advertising, when the company started charging businesses to place them at the top of the Yahoo! search results. Irrespective of the date it’s power and take up was instantaneous. It was determined that it could and would have a tremendous impact on consumer and business procurement. Contrary to the traditional ‘push’ marketing strategy where you paid a high price in the hope of attracting customers, with PPC advertisers pay when, and only when, a user clicks on the advert they have posted and are directed to their offering. So if for example a business posted an advert on one of the three main search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) and got no ‘hits’, they would not pay anything, if however they were lucky enough to be clicked 100 times, they would pay the agreed amount for each click multiplied by the number of clicks, so if they agreed $0.05 per click they would have a bill of $5 to pay.
From its initial simplicity PPC has developed into an enormously powerful and successful tool, employed by almost every business operating on the web who are keen to make their business a success. If we look at just one browser and its PPC tool

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