Manage Local Pay-Per-Click

A great number of searches on Google are local. For a small price, compared to other media, you can get traffic and customers by using local ppc advertising for your business. It costs less than mailings and fliers; is more trackable than billboards and will at times contact more people than an ad in the Yellow Pages.

The Kelsey group says that as many as sixty percent of internet searches are local. There are estimates that say it is as much as seventy-five percent. If the number was only twenty percent, that would still represent a whole lot of searches. There are millions of searches daily.

Whatever the number is, local search is undoubtedly the most untapped opportunity in PPC management.

Are you selling weight management programs, audio downloads, flat screen TV, or home loans nationally on Google? It is possible to do but it will be an uphill fight all the way so be prepared.

However if you happen to be accounting firm, electrician, handyman, or foot doctor, the battle is easily won. The competitors in your market most likely have no idea what they are doing.

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

Hundreds of local businesses in your city spend upwards of $1,000 a month just on Yellow Pages ads, so these people are already spending money!

The representatives for Yellow Pages also sell Internet Yellow Pages listings, this helps make businesses more aware of internet marketing. However these reps are not selling Google or Yahoo ads.

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.)

If you are dealing with a category where mail-order in not possible and the items must be gotten locally, then the clicks are cheap. Check this out. If you search for 'brake shop' in Chicago only 6 ads will come up, and one is for E-bay. Do I hear a bid for 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 embrace the certainty that a good portion of your keyword will only get a few local clicks per month, then the ROI (return on investment) on the clicks you do get is exceptional.

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