For some time now pay per click marketing has been used by new and experienced internet marketers who want to provide increased traffic to their website in a short space of time. For many companies, this is the only method they employ because the results speak for themselves. If you are wondering how pay per click works and how it can benefit you then read on.

All that happens here is an advert (some text with a url link), often in blocks of two or more, is placed on various other websites that are popular and receive large numbers of visitors. If someone likes your ad text they will click on your link and be redirected to your site and provide they stay for more than ten seconds, you will pay the hosting site some money as thanks. The sites that provide you with hosting when it comes to this sort of advertisement are usually big with a large amount of traffic and will have some relationship to the product or services that you are trying to put across. Another reason this is a cost efficient process is because you only pay the hosting site when the links are used.

Of course with traditional advertising which is very costly, there is no guarantee any visitor will even bother looking at your ad, let alone give you any business. Some people are worried about competitors clicking to run up their bill or lose them from the screen completely but in practice this rarely happens. Because the marketing with pay per click is targeted there is less money lost on advertising in the wrong areas. Your ad will only show up on sites where people are already interested in something related to what you are offering.

The largest and best known of these pay per click services is Google with their Adwords program. All you need to do is decide which keyword term or phrase you want and that will create your advert when people use that term. Next to the natural search results, you'll find that your ad shows up along the top or on the sidebar.

These instant results cannot be beaten in any other advertising medium and it is that attracts pay per click customers. It doesn't take very long for you to discover whether you will need to adjust the advert. For speed, efficiency and cost, pay per click search marketing is superior to just about every other method of advertising and that is why companies continue to use it.