Questions - PPC For newbies

From most my researches Yahoo PPC seems like the best option. Personally i have never done PPCs before, would yahoo be the best for me to start or should i try one of the other bigger PPC ones such as google and MSN or some other smaller PPC companies? Thanks!

 

I think you should start with Yahoo. Just read some help in their page and you should be ready to go.

 

Like any form of advertising you need to measure if possible. If you can measure you know what works best for you.

Id recommend trying the bigger companies but also give the smaller companies a go. You would be surprised with the mixed results.

 

Usually smaller ones got plenty amount of fraud (are we talking about 2nd, 3rd tier ppc's?). That won't be "good" experience for newbies I think.

 

Thanks for the info! How much do you think i should be starting off spending?

 

It depends on your budget... but you can always change it anyway, so experiment with this. The cheaper you go, the less traffic you receive though.

 

Thanks!! Appreciated the input!

 

I have moderate success with Yahoo...and to that matter google in the past.
Google has started behaving weirdly recently...They approve my ads..and 1 hour later they are all disabled unless I increase teh per click to $5-$10 etc.

No matter how good my keyword selection is, I always get my ads disabled on google.

Should I call someone at google? Is anyone else getting the same reaction?

 

I reckon that Google is far better than Yahoo! for PPC campaign - in most relevant factors (performance, user-friendly interface, campaign management oprions, etc...). I suggest that you try Google's AdWords and see if it works for you too.

 

Thats what i thought at first...but heard its way pricier than the others.

 

Why Adwords ??
Adwords most expensive keywords and lower roi

 

to go for adwords is simple since Google is giving more traffic as compare to yahoo so obviously it will be costly as compare to yahoo. And as per my opinion we should go for Google adwords PPC .....

 

I have just started a campaign in Yahoo the most annoying thing is I have to wait for someone to manually approve it. This is where adwords is thumps up. The yahoo interface is not user friendly at all. Quite difficult to try and create different ad gropus. i think if you are starting adwords is the best coz you can easly test different things. i am finding YSM pretty unfriendly to use

 

Well did you use self-setup or assisted? I'm trying assisted right now, and it seems pretty easy so far. they are doing the work, said will get back to me in few days.

 

newbie first learn and start with little amount.if you are not careful you are gonna to lost money in quickly.

 

First try either YSM or Adwords.

 

I recommend to first use Google Adwords because:

* rather than a minimum bid, you specify a maximum bid for each keyword and you are never charged more than a penny more than the next bidder.
* changes to ads take place in minutes, rather than having to be approved. Thus you can "massage" your message in real time and see the results
Or click this for more detail
http://www.hyperarts.com/webdesign4/services/pay-per-click-google-adwords.html