Google is by far the most advanced and comprehensive Internet
advertising business even if generally camouflaged as a search engine.
The business partnership between search engines and various advertisers
brings the possibility to invest all available resources in online
advertising without wasting them on other forms of promotion. The old
advertising model in which exposure to the message was the key concept,
got replaced by the new forms of advertising that no longer depend on
message, graphics and videos but on links, shared files, print coupons,
opt-ins and phone calls. Getting such actions from the consumers is
definitely a new approach in product and service promotion.
Are
there changes in the efficiency rate of an Internet advertising business
as compared to a regular real market pattern? Well, in comparison with
the traditional advertising model, the results are definitely
impressive. With the thirty-seconds spot broadcast on a TV channel, the
possibility to convince consumers to buy is a lot lower than on the
Internet. Online, the innovation of the technology involves a process
that goes the other way round: from the consumer towards the advertiser.
The screen, ad, link or banner become relevant only if the web page
visitor takes initiative and clicks on it.
In the simplest form of
expression, the fundamentals of an Internet advertising business are
the keyword search engine query performed by an Internet user, who will
scan the business ads together with the search results shown by the
search engine. This proves the fact that the television exposure to an
ad is a few dozen times less relevant than the action performed online.
The Google pay-per-click advertising system in fact became the basic
model for any Internet advertising business, with all the other search
engines trying to catch up with the system. And the financial results do
speak for themselves!
There are also downsides to an Internet
advertising business and the practice of generating bogus clicks for
instance is just one example out of many. Although the pay-per-click
model stays on a firm position as the most rewarding advertising system
for most online marketers, newer methods of web protection are required
every day in order to prevent or keep under control the various devious
practices that aim at illicit gains. There are many companies that are
actually making efforts to put an end to the PPC advertising model or at
least to offer variants that are just as profitable but a lot safer.
The question remains open as well as the direction in which the Internet
evolves.
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