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.