What is PPC?
Pay per click marketing is a paid search model used to build brand awareness, promote brand offerings and gain immediate traction from specific audience segments. With PPC, advertisers only pay each time a user clicks on the PPC ads -- hence the name pay-per-click.
People usually think of Google PPC when hearing or talking about what is pay per click. But pay-per-click goes beyond the Google search engine results pages (SERPs) and the Google Display Network. Social media sites, such as YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn, also use the pay per click model.
What Is PPC Advertising?
PPC or Pay Per Click is a web advertising model where, as the name suggests, advertisers pay each time a targeted customer clicks on one of their ads.
There are numerous types of PPC ads out there but arguably the most popular type is paid search ad. This type of paid ad is displayed whenever users search for a product or service online through a search engine such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. The queries could be anything from mobile search (Chinese food “near me”) to a local service search (plumbers, roofers) to someone shopping for a gift (“baby shower gift”). These queries trigger PPC ads.
In PPC advertising, businesses that are running a campaign will only pay when a user actually clicks an ad and visits the website.