Overture marketing has long been recognized as an incredible
method for driving traffic to websites from the major search
engines.
Overture was a pay-per-click marketing service that actually
was a search engine originally established in the late 1990s
under the name GoTo.
A strategy change in early 2000 positioned Overture as a
powerful pay-per-click service as the company made deals
with most of the major search engines (Google excluded) which
would allow their advertisers to have their cost-per-click
advertisements displayed in the major search engines.
This move made Overture marketing highly desirable for website
operators as a means of driving traffic to their websites
from the major search engines.
In 2003, Yahoo! began making plans to acquire Overture and
within a couple of years they dropped the Overture brand
re-branding initial Overture products as Yahoo! Search Marketing
Products.
So, in effect Overture is no longer in existence as it has
been replaced by Yahoo! Search Marketing. Even so, the power
of what was once known as Overture marketing is still alive
and well but it is now offered through the Yahoo! Search
Marketing services.
Google, the most widely used major search engine, did not
go for Overture marketing advertisers having their ads displayed
in its search results.
Rather, Google launched its very own cost-per-click advertising
program which is called AdWords. There is a lot of competition
between Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google, of course, since
they are the two main providers of pay-per-click advertising
services.
Some of the smaller search engines are actually powered
by Google, meaning their search results come from Google.
Many of the smaller search engines receive pay-per-click
advertising results from Yahoo! Search Marketing, so advertising
through the Google AdWords program and Yahoo!
Search Marketing pay-per-click programs provides the potential
for your advertisements to displayed in all of the major
and some of the smaller search engines.
Rumor have been stirring that Microsoft is considering starting
its very own pay-per-click advertising program, perhaps through
the MSN search engine that it owns.
In early 2005, representatives from Microsoft confirmed
the rumors that the company was looking at getting into the
pay-per- click advertising game.
For website owners, this could be a good thing as there
will be three major mediums through which to purchase pay-per-click
advertising, so the competition for keywords will likely
diminish making it less expensive for website operators to
achieve good search engine listings through cost-per-click
advertising.
At the same time, there is potential that pay-per-click
management could become a much bigger job for website operators
to desire to be represented in all of the major search engines
and thus end up managing search engine marketing campaigns
through three different pay-per-click providers.
Overture marketing was once the preferred choice of pay-per-click
advertisers. However, when Google launched its AdWords advertising
program, it quickly became a popular and preferred method
of advertising for many website owners.
The AdWords program is very powerful because when you advertise
with Google, your advertisements appear on websites throughout
the Google network in addition to appearing in the search
engine results.
If Microsoft does in fact launch their pay-per-click program
that they have been testing, it is expected to have similar
potential for reaching vast targeted audiences due to the
variety of MSN services that are in existence.
Yahoo! Search Marketing, formerly Overture, is still a power-
packed pay-per-click advertising provider as well and will
likely continue to produce excellent results for advertisers.
One thing is for certain. Using pay-per-click advertising
services that are associated with major search engines is
a productive method for driving traffic to your website.
There will likely be more players on the field in the near
future. Which pay-per-click advertising provider will be
most beneficial is hard to say, but chances are, all them
will be highly effective for driving traffic and pay-per-click
expenses are likely to decrease due to increased competition
and more opportunities for pay-per-click advertisers.
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