Pay Per Click Strategies - Effectively Using Google AdWords

Pay Per Click search is a great way to get immediate traffic to a web site while you are building your organic traffic or to supplement organic traffic. It is no secret that Google is a great place to spend money on paid search, but there are a few things to keep in mind to make sure you don't go broke in the process.

1. Know your profit margins. This may seem simple, but specifically, what I mean is make sure you are not spending more money for your clicks than you will return on a sale. It sounds crazy, but it is easy to let your spending get out of control. One way to manage this is to focus on less popular keywords. I would much rather have a high ranking and more traffic from a specific keyword at a reasonable price, rather than a mediocre position that I am paying a lot of money for.

2. Do not utilize Google's "content network". Those who sell "AdSense profit" courses and the like will not like me for saying this, but that is where many of your clicks will end up if you send traffic to the content network. Go for the search network exclusively, and you will have plenty of better-qualified borrowers that are searching right from Google's home page.

3. Monitor and Adjust. In this business, you need to continually analyze what you are doing in your web marketing campaign and also be willing to adjust. I have used several personal sites as "test beds" over the years and sometimes it hurts, but this is the only way to really learn what works and what doesn't. Recently, I made a change on one of my affiliate sites that resulted in a decrease of almost $1,000 in just a few weeks (not a good thing). If I was not closely monitoring this, it could have resulted in an even greater loss.

4. Set a budget and stick to it. Enough said. Be committed to spending money to promote your business, but know your limits.

Anthony Kirlew is an Internet Marketing Specialist and a life long entrepreneur. Among his diverse business interests, he is the founder of The Web Traffic Team located at http://www.webtrafficteam.com, an Internet Marketing firm committed to helping businesses increase their revenues, both online and offline, through effective Internet Marketing strategies.