Are you interested in joining a pay per click program?  If you are, are you interested in being an affiliate or are you looking to have your advertisements displayed?  Whichever way you are looking to participate in an affiliate program, it is important that you familiarize yourself with click throughs.  Click throughs are an important part of pay per click advertising, whether your ads are the ones being advertised or not.

If you are unfamiliar with pay per click programs and how they operate, you may also be unfamiliar with click throughs.  In a pay per click program, an advertisements will be displayed on a website, owned by a participating pay per click affiliate. Although advertisers hope that their ads will be clicked on all the time, the reality is that they aren’t. There are many interenet users who visit a web page and never click on any advertisements.  Whether or not an ad is being clicked on and how often that is occurring is important to a pay per click program.  That is where click through comes from. Click throughs are when a visitor actually clicks on an advertisement.  The overall rate or total of click throughs are referred to a CTR (click through rate).

If you are a pay per click program affiliate, a webmaster who has agreed to display applicable advertisements, you need to aim for a high CTR.  The number of click throughs that you receive is extremely important to you. In fact, it will ultimately have an impact on how much money you make. With pay per click programs, advertisers only have to pay for advertisements when one of their advertisements has been clicked.  If they do not have to pay, you don’t get paid. Therefore, as a pay per click affiliate, you should be hoping for a high CTR.

Speaking of hoping, hoping is not all that you can do.  In fact, as a pay per click program affiliate, you actually have a large say in your CTR.  Although you cannot control which of your site visitors or how many of them click on your advertisements, you can make it easier for them to do so.  It has been said, on multiple occasions, that to be successful all advertisements need to be displayed above the fold.  When it comes to a web page, below the fold is referring to the part of a website that you cannot see.  You do not want your site visitors to have to scroll down just to see your advertisements.  You want them to be able to see them and hopefully click on them as soon as your website appears on their screen.  Making it easy to click your ads is one of the best ways to increase your CTR. 

Although pay per click program affiliates have the most control of click throughs, you also have a little bit control, even if you are just considered an advertiser.  When signing up for a pay per click program, you get to choose and essentially bid on keywords that you would like associated with your advertisements. These keywords need to be carefully chosen, as they will ultimately have an impact on the success of your advertisements and their click through rates. 

For the best success, you will want to choose keywords that are used.  If internet users are searching for crib bedding and you sell nursery supplies, you may want to use “crib bedding,” as one of your keywords.  When it comes to nursery supplies, crib bedding is one of the most searched phrases.  If you give internet users what they are looking for, they will likely take it, or in this sense click on one of your advertisements. 

In short, click through rates, also known as CTRs, are an important part of pay per click advertising programs. Whether you are an advertiser or an affiliate, you should keep an eye on your average click through rates; they ultimate decided whether or not you make money.

Whether you are a pay per click affiliate or advertiser, the key to success is testing, tracking and then improving your click through rate.

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