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It’s belt-tightening time for all businesses–from mom and pop shops on Main Street to skyscraping halls of Fortune 500 companies. The one area small businesses can compete with large corporations is online with pay per click marketing. But, you have to be careful not to break the budget doing it.

No matter how large or small your business is, following is one handy thing you can do to keep a tight rein on how much you’re spending – ie, recession-proof your PPC marketing efforts.

Pay Per Click Marketing: How & Why to Avoid Bidding Wars on the Information Superhighway
You know how sometimes you’re driving down the road and a car passes you. And, you speed up just a little, trying to keep pace. It happens to the best of us, even if we’re not speed demons. Well, this can happen with pay per click marketing too. After all, it is the information superhighway, and we want to keep pace with the high rollers. Sometimes, the urge to be number one or two can be so strong that we spend too much.

As discussed in the post, Pay Per Click Marketing: 3 Tips for Quicker Results, “. . . research has proven that being number one isn’t necessarily the best spot to be in. . . . Because you get a lot of curiosity seekers who’ll click on ads in this spot. An ad in the third, fourth or even the fifth spot can convert [even] better.”

One of the reasons many online marketers get into the Pay Per Click (PPC) game is to “hit the ground running,” so to speak. But like any type of marketing, PPC takes some skill, some luck and lots of testing. All of this can take – well, time.

Following are three tips to get quick results from your Pay Per Click marketing campaigns.

Don’t Auto Match: Turn off Google’s auto matching feature. You see, this feature is really for those who are new to PPC marketing, and/or who are lazy – and that’s not you, right?

If you’ve done your homework with keyword research, you will have made this unnecessary. And, you’ll probably do a much better job of driving targeted, motivated buyers to your site. After all, you’re spending your money, not Google’s, so you have much more of a vested interested in getting it right.

Appeal to a Few, Not Many: “Huh, what?” you may be thinking. The key to pay per click success is not how many surfers click on your ad, but how many qualified, interested, motivated-to-buy prospects click on your ad. So, be as specific as possible. Use negative qualifiers to weed out tire kickers and appeal only to those who want what you have to offer – now!

Forget Being #1: This is another piece of pay per click marketing advice that may seem counterintuitive. However, research has proven that being number one isn’t necessarily the best spot to be in. Why? Because you get a lot of curiosity seekers who’ll click on ads in this spot.

An ad in the third, fourth or even the fifth spot can convert better.

The only sure way to achieve success in Pay Per Click is to be in the game and monitor, test and tweak; tweak test and monitor. Good luck!