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Is Pay-Per-Click The Only Way to Get Traffic?
Not long ago, I relied on pay-per-click advertising to sell my products. It was very effective then because the bidding wars that have rocketed the cost of campaigns hadn`t happened.
When I came across it, I decided to test it out by making a comparison test with 2 other popular pay-per-click search engines.
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Yes, pay-per-click is a step ahead of blind blanket advertising, but the rising costs force busy web marketers to consider other ideas too. At least, that`s my view. Especially when there are alternatives that have ditched keywords in favor of targeted traffic from a network of sites.
It is a form of advertising known as "contextual advertising". My ads were shown on a network of sites instead of as the result of queries on a search engine. I spent $200 on each campaign to promote my e book `Cash From Your Camera` (http://www.cashfromyourcamera.com)
This is what happened....
First, for the Google traffic, my average cost per click was 45 cents for the range of different keywords I was bidding on. I received a total of 449 visitors and 1 order. I also received 20 sign-ups to my newsletter providing a sign-up conversion rate of around 4.4% and ROI of 43%
Kanoodles`s traffic was disappointing although much cheaper. I actually received 1523 visitors for my $200 investment. This works out at less than 8 cents a visitor for the same keywords. But the campaign resulted in zero sales an only 2 sign-ups to my newsletter...not good!
Have Traffic was the real surprise package.
I received 1,000 visitors for my $200 and actually received 3 sales and 46 subscribers to my newsletter. The actual return on my investment was a 135% plus I received 46 leads with which to follow-up.
Only one of my three campaigns even broke even and that one only earned 135% ROI. I obviously need to optimize everything a bit better and then I could at least get a profitable return from both Google and Have Traffic. It really looks like Kanoodle is a bust no matter what I do. It`s a shame. In the distant past, I could count on decent traffic from them.
I guess it`s possible that the results may have been different if I had used different keywords for the campaigns
But overall, this test shows that it is still possible to find cost effective pay-per-click advertising. You just have to look harder (sometimes at unexpected sources) and optimize your ad copy quite a bit more than was necessary in the past for even solid known good sources of traffic like Google.
