When launching a new website, driving traffic to your website can be a challenging experience to say the least.

From pay-per-click or PPC advertising to banner ads to expired domains, just to name a few, there are a quite a few methods to consider when buying website traffic.

The biggest question I receive the most from customers is which method is the most cost-effective, yet will return the biggest results in terms of shear traffic volume and conversions?

As I’m sure you have experienced when increasing website traffic, most website owners find that it takes three or four times as long as thought to increase organic website traffic from a variety of resources.

From personal experience, I’ve found success in buying website traffic to supplement my SEO efforts to increase organic website traffic.

There are many online sources for buying website traffic, good and bad.

In today’s post, I want to focus on pay-per-click or PPC advertising, and how you can use PPC advertising as an effective tool to drive instant website traffic and increase your organic website traffic along the way.

Open any web browser and use the Internet, I’m willing to bet you will come into contact with pay-per-click advertising (PPC) at some point during you web usage.

You see pay-per-click ads on top, bottom, and to the right of all pages in search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo as well as social media websites, Facebook to be more exact.

Pay-per-click advertising, also known as ppc advertising or search marketing — a more search engine optimization common or generalized name — is an effective method and internet advertisement system to drive profitable and targeted traffic to one’s website.

In today’s post, I hope to shed a little light on the pay-per-click advertising, and how to effectively use pay-per-click advertising in such a way that you can make it a profitable search marketing method to drive and convert targeted traffic.

Let’s jump in and get started with the good, the bad and ugly in pay-per-click advertising.