Pay-per-click (PPC), is advertising in which you pay each time a visitor clicks your ad. Most advertising platforms work on either the PPC model or the Impressions model which is called CPM (cost per 1000 impressions).
Knowing the terminology surrounding online marketing can help you make more effective campaigns.
In most cases, we suggest starting with PPC until you can fine tune your advertising campaigns. However, if you have ad creatives with a high click-thru rate (CTR), I would suggest converting that campaign to the CPM model as you will likely reduce your CPC (cost per click) dramatically.
And just like that, you have learned four PPC abbreviations and below are a few more to help you get started with some profitable campaigns.
More PPC Terminology Conversion rate: the percentage that you turn visitors into customers, buyers, subscribers, etc. Bounce Rate: the percentage that determines how long a visitor remained…