by » gothtini » Sun, 8 July 2012, 8:37 am | #4 of 8 | ∇
I've been tempted to use PPC advertising, but only for my blog which is about making money. Since you didn't do it long you may not have noticed, but 99.9% of the time the links are either other sites to make money on or sites about sites that you make money on. That's because its the target audience, if you have a blog about making money online and advertise it on a forum that is full of rich people who have no need to make extra money you most likely won't get any interest on your blog. However if you advertise the blog in a place where money is being made then you will get attention to it.
Its not an embarrassing advertisement service, it is a cheap one and even if your site isn't about making money it could be useful. If you pay 20 bucks to get a thousand hits, and 2 of those hits are interested people you will have those 2 people going to your site often. Those 2 people will share links with their friends, say out of that 4 people of each friend is interested in the site at all. So now you have 10 new people coming to your site, and if those 8 new ones share links with their friends..well you get the point, it grows. If you have the link being an interesting one that will catch attention, and buy the ads on a site where the people can not navigate away from the tab while the counter goes up, it can be effective. It all depends on the situation, but it is not an embarrassing way to advertise. By no means do I suggest using it as the only way to advertise, but if you have extra cash or if you do work on a PPC and have a balance it is a nice way to get some possible interested traffic.
Also far as the people who do the clicking, often times they do it along with other sites they work on. Every bit of cash helps, there are some really good programs out there far as PPC goes it just depends on what you want to join. I'm not really a fan of PPC there are a few programs I rather like but I don't really do them anymore, got paid a few bucks from both of them. On one I really liked I ended up getting free premium membership for a few months because I helped them to identify bugs in the system, the fact the owner cared that much about its workers showed quite a bit. I've been on so many sites where if you point out a bug the owner will either ignore you, or fix it and not tell you or give you any credit. Oh and to answer your second question about the making money, I didn't have referral help on those sites. Actually I take that back towards the end I did, I got maybe 10 cents all together from referrals on them the rest was me. I'm not good at getting referrals so most of my work is me usually haha.
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