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Insight13 March 2012

Internet marketing company and the role of PPC

Digital marketing is complex. It utilises several resources, tools, algorithms, and technologies to promote businesses online. It is also one of the fastest-growing platforms. Traditional marketing methods continue to rule for the time being, but digital marketing will play a big role in the future. A digital marketing company relies on several IT specialists to perform a myriad of tasks, to establish a product or a service. The marketing process begins right from the designing stage. Even during the brainstorming session, a lot of weight and importance is given to creating a website that incorporates search engine-friendly code, heading tags, appropriate titles, and relevant Meta tags. All this forms a part of on-site optimization, which fetches top rank in search engine results pages. Search engine-friendly URLs also form an integral part of the on-site optimisation strategy. Another important on-site optimisation strategy is "keyword". Every website has something to offer; products, services, professional help, advice, white papers, etc. A webpage should have one or two keywords that are related to the type of service or products that it offers. This sends out positive signals to search engines. All these elements work in tandem to find top rank. On the other hand, off-site optimisation techniques exploit another set of procedures. Some of them are mentioned below.

  • PPC or pay-per-click advertising.
  • Blog and article marketing.
  • Social media marketing.
  • Email and SMS marketing. Apart from PPC, the rest of the strategies form a part of the SEO optimisation process. SEO agencies tweak various parameters of a website to find that elusive first-page listing in SERP's. This is also called organic search or free search. Owners do not have to pay money for the links that are generated by the search engines whenever a user makes a relevant search query. On the other hand, a PPC campaign is not a part of the SEO process. Pay-per-click is a form of paid advertising, where an advertiser pays the publisher for every click. Advertisers need to bid for keywords that are relevant to their products and services. Keywords that have high search ratings typically cost more. These paid Ads also show up on the search engine results page; typically at the top or on the right side. There was a time when PPC ads were simple & plain, with just a link to the main website. Over the period the click rate dropped forcing Google to offer an innovative subset called "Ads with enhanced site links". The strategy worked. Enhanced site links offered users deeper access to the website right from the advertising link. It offered them more useful and relevant choices. With the introduction of site links the click rate increased significantly; almost by 30%. With this new and innovative Ad option, marketers suddenly found a great way to offer users numerous links to relevant web pages, typically within a website, improving the overall value of the brand and keywords. To qualify for this sort of setup your active Ads should be closely related to site links in your campaign.
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