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PPC stands for pay-per-click, a model of internet marketing in which advertisers pay a fee

each time one of their ads is clicked. Essentially, it’s a way of buying visits to your site, rather
than attempting to “earn” those visits organically.
Search engine advertising is one of the most popular forms of PPC. It allows advertisers to bid
for ad placement in a search engine’s sponsored links when someone searches on a keyword
that is related to their business offering. For example, if we bid on the keyword “PPC software,”
our ad might show up in the very top spot on the Google results page.
Conducting PPC marketing through Google Ads is particularly valuable because, as the most
popular search engine, Google gets massive amounts of traffic and therefore delivers the most
impressions and clicks to your ads. How often your PPC ads appear depends on
which keywords and match types you select. While a number of factors determine how
successful your PPC advertising campaign will be, you can achieve a lot by focusing on:
Keyword Relevance – Crafting relevant PPC keyword lists, tight keyword groups, and
proper ad text.
Landing Page Quality – Creating optimized landing pages with persuasive, relevant content
and a clear call-to-action, tailored to specific search queries.
Quality Score – Quality Score is Google’s rating of the quality and relevance of your keywords,
landing pages, and PPC campaigns. Advertisers with better Quality Scores get more ad clicks
at lower costs.
Creative – Enticing ad copy is vital; and if you’re advertising on the display network, you can
use a tool like our free Smart Ads Creator to create designer-quality ads that will demand
clicks.

PPC Keyword Research


Keyword research for PPC can be incredibly time-consuming, but it is also incredibly
important. Your entire PPC campaign is built around keywords, and the most successful
Google Ads advertisers continuously grow and refine their PPC keyword list. If you only do
keyword research once, when you create your first campaign, you are probably missing out on
hundreds of thousands of valuable, long-tail, low-cost and highly relevant keywords that could
be driving traffic to your site.
An effective PPC keyword list should be:
Relevant – Of course, you don’t want to be paying for Web traffic that has nothing to do with
your business. You want to find targeted keywords that will lead to a higher PPC click-through
rate, effective cost per click, and increased profits. That means the keywords you bid on should
be closely related to the offerings you sell.
Exhaustive – Your keyword research should include not only the most popular and frequently
searched terms in your niche, but also to the long tail of search. Long-tail keywords are more
specific and less common, but they add up to account for the majority of search-driven traffic.
In addition, they are less competitive, and therefore less expensive.
Expansive – PPC is iterative. You want to constantly refine and expand your campaigns, and
create an environment in which your keyword list is constantly growing and adapting.
If you want to find high-volume, industry-specific keywords to use in your PPC campaigns, be
sure to check out our popular keywords.

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