Public Speaking Marketing Tips: Paid Search

One way to find targeted traffic is to pay your way to the top of the search results. This is called Pay-Per-Click or sponsored ads. You have seen them often almost every time you search online. They will be typically on the top of the page or the right hand side of the search results on Google with websites that match your inquiry.

These website owners have set a bid price on how much they are willing to pay for each click on the result. These website owners pay every time someone clicks out on an ad no matter if the visitor purchases anything or not.



The ads in yellow are the sponsored ads and the ones below that are natural search results.



The reason it can attract high quality targeted traffic is that your ad will match what the searcher is looking for based on the exact keywords they type in. By paying for search positioning, not only are you putting yourself right in front of your target audience, but you are skipping the process of waiting for natural search positioning and putting your website up on the top of the results within hours of signing up.

This is a great way to test products and new ideas. If you pay for a sponsored ad and your target market doesn't click on the ad or buy anything, you may have a dud of an idea or haven't worded the ad just right. It would be a shame to have spent time and money on a product that no one wants.

Learning to write an ad properly is important to keep the wrong people from clicking on the ad. You could go broke very quickly if people are clicking on the ads for no reason. You have to word the ad to attract your specific target market and 'disqualify' people who wouldn't ultimately be interested in your products or services.

Easy tricks that make public speakers a fortune...