Looking for a good PPC outlet that is Not Google...

@ Trev, first of all when the "slap" happened it was not by any means a sole source of advertising. That would have been a really bad business model to be following.

It most definitely cleaned up a lot of the "spammy" stuff.
I have no problem with that. I have no problem putting good content out and being legit and not hiding anything from the public. That's why my brand is "Integrity Networker" :-)

I would suggest that if people were to use that type of model of advertising they would b

Trev, my reason for staying away from google (and I suspect Patty's as well) is a lot more than just a PPC business model. Google has been coming out with patents on things like checking the temperature of your house, recording background noise, monitoring your tv and adding your tv viewing AND buying decisions to a database to better "target ads"(heavy push for google tv), and a great deal of other things. They will be of the first to undoubtedly be able to tell a person just how effective a tv

@ Bruce Its great that you answered Pattys' question with alternatives... yet I still have to sit with Google on this... If you suffered a slap and you lost almost all of your advertising overnight then that was duly needed as there where far too many false statements and links to landing pages that did not match the advert... thank goodness for the clean-up. This saw a massive rise in the already established organic search results and so yep there was a time when cheap irrelevant paid ads would

OMG....he's a moderator...!!! ??? my bad

@ Jason D. Hey buddy...why don't your try expanding and contributing... use it or lose your choice

Good point Trev! Thanks for responding :)

Patty whatever drives your success... if you do it in PPC then there should always be a mirror in Free Organics..

Thanks so much for all of your input :) I love the activity in this group! I have done PPC in Google successfully before the big "slap". That really made me angry because online marketers are the ones that helped them grow their business.

Again, thanks so much for the input :)

Cheers!

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I completely understand the reason in not using google. Its a huge invasion of privacy and a lot of marketers are trying to turn away from them.

The first two PPC companies that popped into my mind were of course the largest of competitors to Google adwords - that of BidVertiser and that of clicksor. However ppc is really not that limited anymore.

Its all in what you are selling as to where you should be using PPC. Despite most people don't think of them as such, facebook and linkedin both o

I Quite agree Warren, PPC is a tricky field to play in yet that said it is a place where a lot of marketers do test click thru rates for specific keyword optimized ads a lot of the Gurus and professionals do this to test pre-launch modes.
Patty I do not understand why you refuse to use Google (the worlds largest SE) unless you are trying to focus on lesser used SE's to reduce competitive results prehaps? .

The problem isn't the traffic, it's conversions. Make sure you test your campaign free before you throw money at it.