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1. You select the keywords you want your site listed under.
When a surfer decides to click on your listing to visit your site, the amount you bid on that keyword is deducted from your account. If they don't click on it, it doesn't cost you a thing. This way you only get people that are interested in what you are offering coming to your site. The keys to success with a pay per click search engine are to bid for the right keywords at the right price, and then write a title and description for your site that will target your audience and entice them to click on the link and visit your site. There are basically two primary means of achieving a prominent placement on major search engines:
1) pay for it, or
Types of Paid Placements
Bid Placements: Since bidding can be done online instantaneously and as often as you want, there really is no limit to how high the top rankings may cost -- it's a buyer's market. In order to retain top positions, frequent monitoring is required. There are several benefits to this approach. The main benefit is that advertisers control their placement, and thus, their visibility. Second, the whole process is immeasurably faster than trying to get a site indexed on a traditional search engine like Yahoo!.
On the downside, bid placement can be incredibly costly and time consuming. For example, some companies can pay $4-5 or more per click for top bids on their keywords. Bid placement monitoring can be done manually or by software, but in either case, this is a hidden expense. Finally, many people don't consider that some searchers avoid paid-for placement sites altogether because results are not based upon relevancy, but upon bidding, and therefore, might have less bearing on the mission of the search in the first place.
Paid-For Sponsor Listings
Though Yahoo! and Google differ in some ways, the overall pros and cons for them are similar. PROS: Both offer high visibility, targeted listings, and quick turn around time once the order is placed. Pricing is also more stable than with bid placements. CONS: Yahoo! only allows paid-for listings of sites already indexed in their directory, and it still serves targeted keyword banner ads on the same page. Google, doesn't have banners to distract from their paid-for sponsor listings, but it does severely limit the content of the ad, and only offers rates by the CPM. Moreover, if more than 3 advertisers want to purchase each type of ad space, Google will only display the top 3 based upon the amount they paid and their click-thru rate. Non-Paid Placement If you choose not to pay for placements on search engines, your alternative is to OPTIMIZE your site so the engines index it and rank it highly anyway. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is more like an art form instead of rocket science. This is a topic we are going to save for later in my advanced course.
I guess you could look at it that at least advertisers have options. Decisions as to which method to pursue should be
determined by the particular goals, budget, and time constraints required.
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