The Many Forms of Search Engine Marketing


by Ant Onaf - Date: 2007-09-21 - Word Count: 368 Share This!

With the soaring popularity of Internet search engines, it only makes sense that many businesses are turning to the idea of search engine marketing to market their product or service. Popular search engine sites like google.com and ask.com are only rising in popularity. Internet users are finding it easier to log on to one of these sites than to conduct an independent search of various web site pages. Here, a user can enter a simple term and receive virtually hundreds of results. An individual search would take days to produce the same results.

The search engine site google.com offers several different types of marketing. There is the pay-per-click version. Here a company creates an advertisement to place as a side bar on google's search pages. There is no fee for this beyond the initial set up fee for advertisement placement. If a user should click on the company's advertisement, this counts as one click. The company would then pay-per-click for this marketing tool. The price a company pays depends on the fee program selected. It can vary depending on the number of "clicks" a company estimates it would like to see for a particular marketing piece.

Another form of search engine marketing is banner advertisements. Here, a company creates a banner to be placed at the top of the search engine page. Regardless of how many search pages a userclicks, each page will feature the company's marketing piece at the top. This is one of the most effective ways to use a marketing piece online. Even if the user never clicks on the banner, it will be prominent enough that the user should remember the company name at a later date.

Whether pay-per-click is used or banner marketing, each method is almost guaranteed to reach the target audience. A company has the option of selecting what search information result pages the marketing piece should appear on. This allows the company to have some control over what target market is being reached. With the rising success of search engines, a company can not afford to pass up search engine marketing as a valuable tool.



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