Archive for the 'Pay-Per-Action' Category

Pay-Per-Action And Google

As Google toys with pay-per-action ad units, it may be time to seriously reconsider your advertising strategies. Pay-per-action will certainly reduce any click fraud that most advertisers experience but will it prove value for money?
Considering the amount of either click fraud or click throughs that don’t generate desired actions, perhaps the pay-per-action form advertising will […]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Pay-Per-Action versus Pay-Per-Click

There are many different “Pay-Per” advertising formats around and Pay-Per-Action is just one of them. The question I often hear is “which format should I use?”.
The answer is can be quite straightforward. The format will nearly always depend on what your goals are and what is being acted upon.
In a simple example, if you are […]

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Pay per action going beyond Sign-ups

Clicking on a link may be easy but when it comes towards leaving the click to the actual humans for pay per action incentives is another. Google’s brainchild is simply brilliant. Unlike in the earlier months where adsense would mostly rely on clicks and then automatically credit revenues, today’s story is quite different.
On my […]

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Pay Per Action Versus Pay Per Click

Pay per action is a form of advertising pricing model that is extremely focused and advantageous for the advertiser. As it’s name suggests, the advertiser only pays when a prospective client takes a desired action.
This differs considerably from pay per click, or pay per impression. Those models can vary in their returns on investment. In […]

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Pay Only On Results With Pay Per Action

Pay per action is an advertising model where you only pay when the desired result happens. For example, your desired result is for the visitor to purchase a product, or sign up for a newsletter, or perhaps fill in and submit an application form.
Pay per action advertising tends to cost more per completed action than […]

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Pay-Per-Action Is A Worthy Substitute, But Not The Solution To End All Problems

(Source) Google is beta testing a different business formula for its AdSense product that eases up on its lucrative pay-per-click model in favor of a pay-per-action model. The new program could help address the click fraud problem that dogs the per-per-click sector of the online ad industry.
The idea with the beta test is to provide […]

Monday, March 26th, 2007