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Search Engine Marketing is using pay-per-click advertising methods to ensure that your site is one of the first ones that comes up on the search results or that it appears as a sponsored link on the right side of the search results page. There is debate about the cost-effectiveness of this technique. It is useful for people who have products to sell and can offset the cost with sales. Zee Designs can help you determine what alternatives might be right for you.

That depends. What are your overall marketing and advertising budgets? How much of your income is expected to come from web sales or web-inspired sales? How much does your business gross overall compared to internet sales? We can help you look at your overall business situation and marketing plan to see what strategy will do the most good and help you lower potential risk.

One of the biggest risks of pay-per-click is having a competitor or other malicious person click repeatedly to run up your costs, without giving any return. This can be done by people who use the same keywords and wish to keep you from bidding on advertising for that keyword to lower their own cost or increase their own exposure. Click fraud in its many forms has become a growing issue that has search engines scrambling for answers and it has spawned a number of products to help search engines and site owners monitor their traffic.

Another risk is that some of the other advertisers may not be companies you would enjoy being grouped with in an advertising section. Try searching on the keywords you would target and see what other advertisers show up. If the other advertisers go to link farms, spam sites, or other questionable sites, then it would lower your image to be listed among them. For some types of businesses this is less of an issue than for others.