Manage Local Pay-Per-Click

Many of the searches on Google are local searches. For a small portion of the expense of other advertising media, you can advertise for local customers with Google. There are times that this method will reach more customers than Yellow Page ads; you can trace your Google ads more easily and it is much more cost effective than mailers and fliers.

The Kelsey group reports that of the millions of internet searches 60 percent are local. Others estimate that it is as many as 75 percent, but even if the percentage was only 20 that is still a whole boatload of searches targeted at locals.

However the numbers work out, local search is doubtlessly the best underused option for managing your PPC.

You want to sell weight loss plans, MP3 downloads, high definition TVs, or mortgages nationwide on Google? You can do it, but you'd better strap on your gladiator helmet and prepare for a fight.

Yet if you are a chiropractor, automotive shop, carpet layer or landscaper, you are prime to be victorious. Your competition is more than likely uneducated in internet marketing strategy.

Consulting in this area is a great idea. You can put together campaigns for businesses around you. The need is under filled. Consider this:

Most businesses in your area of the city shell out as much as $1,000 per month simply on Yellow Pages ads. The money is being spent.

The Yellow Pages reps are also selling Internet Yellow Page listings, creating more awareness of online marketing. But they're not selling Google ads on Yahoo.

Companies like Google are so busy dealing with existing opportunities, putting reps on the street to sell PPC to local businesses is a long way off at best. (There are rumors of partnerships with Yellow Pages companies though.)

On topics where mail order is not an option, and it has to be obtained locally, clicks are cheap. As an example in Chicago there are just 6 ads that come up for the keyword 'brake shop' and E-bay is one of them. Did someone say nickel clicks?

Web savvy local advertisers are very rare, and this is not going to change any time soon. Running a retail store and running an online store are two entirely different things. So for local yokels, "In the land of the blind, the man with one eye gets to be king."

If you can accept the fact that many keywords will only produce a few local clicks a month, the return on investment (ROI) on what you do get is extraordinary.

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