We Are Right In The Middle Of A Pay Per Click Baby Boom

No, this baby boom will certainly not swamp the Social Security system (sort of a bad joke for those that live in the UnitedStates, but many other countries...most notably Japan...have aneven more acute problem), but this baby boom is revolutionizingthe way that pay per click advertising is being spread across the Internet.

One of the early participants in this pay per click baby boom wasGoogle, with its AdSense program. With this program, Googleshares pay per click revenue with a huge number of individual partner websites that carry a few pay per click ads that are distributed by Google. In essence, this creates a whole bunch oflittle pay per click locations (websites) throughout the Internetand hence the term "pay per click baby boom".

Conceptually, programs like AdSense are similar to what thecomputer hardware folks refer to a distributed processing. Instead of trying to draw everyone to a large pay per click search engine site, little groups of pay per click ads are spreadwidely across thousands of locations (websites) all over theInternet.

Actually, this distributed processing or propagation technique isnot limited to pay per click advertising. For example, Amazon uses a similar arrangement (called Amazon Associates) to sell the products it carries on amazon.com and ClickBank has a salesprogram called CBAdwords which operates in a similar fashion.

According my trusty Ouija board, it seems likely that most commercial hubs on the Internet will be shifting to this propagation concept as time progresses...all of those individualpartner websites that carry the message/proposition will constitute the vast army of worker ants that keep the queen antalive and healthy.

From a pay per click marketing perspective, these programs make brilliant use of leverage while providing highly targeted prospects for the paying advertiser.

There are, of course, some interesting things that occur as a result of all of this stuff. For example, consider what I callthe "cross fertilization effect": Suppose a person goes to yahoo.com and performs a search that leads them to one of mywebsites that happens carry Google AdSense ads and that visitorthen clicks on one of those ads...the net result is that Yahoonatural search provided Google pay per click with some revenue!Aren't these fun times that we're living in?

As these programs continue to proliferate, the individual webmaster needs to exercise a little restraint and avoid thetemptation to go overboard by plastering these ads all over yourwebsite and thereby diluting your own primary message/proposition and confusing your hard earned visitor. When properly used, these ads are just ancillary or complementary content that youare providing to enhance the information and opportunities thatyou are providing to your visitor...if something happens to strike a responsive chord with your visitor, you might make alittle pay per click money.

If properly used, these propagation programs can result in theclassical "win-win" situation. However, if you over do it, thiscan quickly turn into a loss for you (the individual webmaster)and a win for your pay per click partners that are distributingthe ads. As in many things, moderation is important.

It's a constant sea of change, but the good things just keep on getting better! Stay alert, and light on your feet, and the opportunities will just keep on coming your way.

The above are just some observations from "the peanut gallery",but I don't think I'm far off the mark about where things areheading. With that, I'm off the soapbox and wishing yousuccess in whatever you do online!

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