Internet marketing is the
use of the Internet to advertise and sell goods and services. Internet
Marketing includes pay per click advertising, banner ads, e-mail
marketing, search engine marketing (including search engine optimization),
blog marketing, and article marketing.
Pay per click
Pay per click, or PPC, is an advertising technique used on websites,
advertising networks, and search engines.
With search engines, pay
per click advertisements are usually text ads placed near search
results; when a site visitor clicks on the advertisement, the advertiser
is charged a small amount. Variants include pay for placement and
pay for ranking. Pay per click is also sometimes known as Cost Per
Click (CPC).
While many companies exist
in this space, Google Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly
Overture) are the largest network operators as of 2006. MSN has
started beta testing with their own PPC services MSN Ad centre.
Other networks include Findwhat, Shopping.com, NexTag, BizRate and
PriceGrabber. Depending on the search engine, minimum prices per
click start at US$0.01 (up to US$0.50). Very popular search terms
can cost much more on popular engines. Abuse of the pay per click
model can result in click fraud. Click fraud is usually not detected
very well by smaller PPC engines.