If you want outstanding results, then search engine marketing is the best route to take.

If you want a tried and true way of generating heaps of traffic to your website – day in, day out – you can’t afford to ignore search engine marketing. And it’s not as complex as it may first appear. In fact, let me outline some search engine basics…

The major search engines – Google, Yahoo (a directory as well as a search engine) and MSN – generate "natural" or "organic" search results or listings, as well as sponsored (advertiser paid) listings, whenever someone performs a search on particular keywords or key phrases. As you might imagine, listings that appear on the first page of results – whether paid or organic – tend to attract the vast majority of clicks on the links included in their listings and, consequently, traffic to their websites. Therefore, if you know that the target market for your website typically uses particular keywords or key phrases to search for the kinds of information, products or services you offer… you want your listing to appear as high as possible in the search engine ranking pages or "SERPs".

While it might seem as though your best bet is to be ranked number one in the SERPs for a certain keyword or key phrase, this may not always be the case. Most search marketing practitioners certainly advocate becoming first in the organic results. However, there are diverging views about the efficacy of being first in the paid results. Some search engine marketers believe that it’s more profitable to be in the middle of the list of the paid results, as long as your ad appears on the first page of results. Additionally, the question arises: should you advertise in the paid results as well as strive for a high ranking in the organic results? There’s no hard-and-fast answer; it’s really something to experiment with.

Since SEM incorporates both paid and free search engine rankings, the means of getting high up in the free versus the paid results necessitates a some what different methodology. Search engine optimization (SEO) is how marketers get their websites and web pages ranking highly in the free results. This is part-science, part-art. The SEOs use complex math to rank different sites and pages. Therefore, if you understand how this math works, then, presumably, you’ll know what to do to get a high ranking. Trouble is, no-one knows how this math works! The SEOs keep their algorithms close to their chests. Consequently, it’s a bit of an art to try to work out the science!

Meanwhile, paid search incorporates pay-per-click advertising and pay-per-impression advertising.

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is as the name suggests: advertising where you pay each time someone clicks on the link in your ad. Some of the major advantages of PPC are that you only pay for the results you want – prospects clicking on your ad – and you can readily measure the effectiveness of a given keyword or ad by means of the click through rate (CTR).

The other form of paid search is pay-per-impression, where you pay a certain amount per 1,000 ad impressions (CPM). Google, in fact, uses a formula to determine how much you ultimately pay for a given advertising campaign that incorporates both the cost per click (CPC) and the CPM. I won’t get into the complexities here, but suffice to say that you can end up paying the same amount of money regardless of whether you pay based on a click or an impression, depending on your CTR. Also, Google actually favors ads with a higher CTR and takes that into account when ranking them. So you can actually get a higher listing and still pay the same per click than someone else, provided your ad is more effective for that keyword or key phrase in question.

Paying to appear in the SERPs can be a good way to get started in SEM. You can identify which words are the most effective in pulling customers to your website. You can test the popularity of a new product or service. And you can test the layout and copy on your landing pages (the specific pages that people see when they click on your listing).

No question, understanding search engine marketing involves a bit of a learning curve. But the benefits are definitely worth the effort. As many Internet marketers have discovered, an effective search engine marketing effort can yield all the traffic, and customers, you could ever want.

Steve Renner is a well known Internet Marketing Expert, author, consultant and speaker. Get Professional Internet Marketing training and resources at imtrain.com

By Steve Renner Published: 3/8/2008

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 Google Adsense Review   – Being a Google Adwords publisher is a great way to make money online. However, you need to follow certain steps to not only become a success, but to avoid becoming banned by Google. Google is very serious about the integrity of the Google Adsense program. This Adsense review will discuss the top dos and don’ts for using the Adsense program. Keep reading to learn where to find the high paying Adsense keywords for optimization of your Adsense web pages.

Here are some tips that you MUST follow to become a successful Adsense publisher:

1. be sure to read the Adsense Terms and Conditions and Program Policies thoroughly and comply with them at all times – no exceptions! Google is almost fanatical about its guidelines being complied with. It is absolutely critical that you comply at all times with every Adsense term and condition and policy to avoid having your account (and all your Adsense ads) shut down by Google.

2. If you are new to Adsense don’t assume you know anything at all about being a successful publisher. Read up on absolutely everything you can find about the program and make sure you have the correct tools at hand to become a success.

3. Become an expert at optimizing your sites and web pages. This does take some little time and effort on your part but the correct ad placement, and the right choice of top paying keyword, means the difference between a click through ratio of 0 and a click through ratio of 8 percent or more.

4. Spend a lot of time searching the web looking at examples of other publisher’s Adsense websites and see how each individual site, including blogs, is benefiting from Adsense.

5. Google will not tolerate you clicking on your own ads so don’t even think about it.

6. Don’t ask your friends and family members to click on your ads. You can earn money instead by referring them to the program themselves.

7. Don’t join the program simply to make money. It is NOT a get rich quick scheme. It will take time and effort to make a profit.

8. While the program is relatively user friendly don’t expect to get a complete grasp of how everything works as soon as you start. Expect to take a short while to get used to everything and to learn every facet of becoming a successful Adsense publisher.

By following this list of dos and don’ts you are well on your way to becoming a successful Adsense publisher. One of the fundamentals of Adsense success is optimizing your web pages with the best top paying adsense keywords.

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