Tuesday, November 12, 2013

PPC and Display Advertising for Auto Dealerships

Digital marketing spending is increasing over the year in many industries from small local to global organizations. In the automotive industry bigger companies like General Motors to the small auto dealerships using at their level and it is giving good results.

Pay per click: Pay per click (PPC) accounts are free to set up. When any click happens on your ad placed online, you need to pay for that click only. This means it is free only up to your ads do not deliver any results.

Pay per click campaigns should be optimized for the targeted key words, and these should be constantly monitored for efficiency. For instance, in a pay per click campaign for an auto dealership, various geographically targeted keywords are used. These will reflect the dealership's models and brands.

Text advertisements generally appear at the top right or on the side of search result pages, and can target the keywords from both specific and general searches. If users are accessing the results on their mobile, the PPC click to call option can provide.

Display advertising: The display advertising is different from PPC. In display advertising, the paid ads are shown on websites depending on a specific theme or keywords or terms that  match content of the hosting website. The display can be video ads, image ads, and text ads.

Contextual advertising: The contextual advertising is a form of display advertising. In this specific websites are targeted based on the website's visitors demographic. Based on the auto dealership's franchises and brands, you or your digital marketing campaigning company (if you outsourced) have to buy ad paces on various websites which are segmented to fit specific automobile buyers.

Contextual advertising is similar to display advertising  is done via videos, animations and banners. As opposed to PPC links and text on the search engine pages, contextual advertising allows to captive the viewers of website with imagery and video, that is specific to those brands and models for the dealerships. With these video, animations, texts, and graphics on the websites geographical targeting is possible.

Behavioral marketing: Behavioral marketing allows the auto dealership or the company to continue to target with videos, text and image ads to the people those who have visited the dealership's website as they surf to other sites on the Internet. It also allows to change the ads and videos in real time to target each individual visitor's level of interest. Thus, when a user visits your website, you can target them with graphic, video and text ads with specific service, credit opportunity or application, or vehicle that they have already shown interest in, or began fill out. For example, an auto shopper visits your website and looks at a new Ford model. When they leave the website, the same ad can display up to 92% of the websites they visit later.

Analytics in digital marketing is easy. Every part of marketing campaign can monitor and analyze. It will help dealerships where they are getting more potential and how to get better results from the campaign.