Contextual Advertising

Benefits and advantages of using contextual adverts

Contextual advertising is very effective way to reach a target audience. It increases the number of visitors who in turn are converted to potential customers by seeing the advertisements.

There are many benefits to using Contextual Advertising:

Relevant Ads:
The users get what they are looking for. So the ads are targeted.

Higher click rate:
The contextual adverts have higher click rate than the traditional forms of online advertisements.

Ads are dynamic:
Contextual Advertisements are served with dynamic content. As a result, the most relevant ads are shown on the web pages. This enhances the site’s usability.

Ads are served in real time:
Contextual Advertisements are served to visitors within a short period of time as little as 20 milliseconds.

Deeper reach:
Pre-Google AdWords Era, the advertisers have been good at selling in the top level categories or pages and they were unable to sell deeper into the pages of a site. But with Contextual Advertising, it is possible to sell deeper into the specific categories and pages.

Categories and keywords are matched:
Contextual Advertising goes past searching for a particular service or product or even a keyword. The pages are indexed according to the category and multiple keywords. This delivers more value to the advertiser.

Customizable Ads:
The advertisements can be customized according to the web site's color and look and feel. This includes the text color, background and border color. This put the control in your hands to change the contextual advertisements to suit your need. The advertiser has total control over the contextual advertising campaign and can create or edit them anytime. Also it can be targeted at designated time of week or day of the week. The budget can also be set to monthly or daily and the geographical location, designated marketing area, etc can be set.

Easy and fast to create:
Contextual adverts are fast and easy to create. They have a headline, a short body, a destination link. So it takes minutes to create such adverts.

More revenue:
Contextual Advertising creates more revenue to your web site. Some of the contextual advertising companies provide you the revenue ranking system that automatically rotates the most performing ad frequently and in great volume so that you gain the most revenue from the best ad. As these contextual advertisements serve relevant ads, the more visitors get interested in them. This results in more clicks on them which in turn generates you more revenue.

Increased traffic to your website:
Contextual adverts mean increased traffic to your website. The largest contextual advertising network reaches 80% of the internet users so the reach of this technology is to its fullest potential.

Highly targeted advertising:
With Contextual Adverts, the advertisers are able to pay to reach a certain demographic of people through the sponsored text links that appear on the sites. Also these are highly targeted to the visitors with geographical targeting. The advertisers fully control their adverts geographical areas. These can appear on the specified Time of the day. The keyword and category based targeting serves the adverts according to the relevancy of the content of the page.

Adds value to existing inventory:
The contextual advertising matches the keywords with the content on every page and then serves the advertisements related to that particular category. This provides the best source of information to the customers or visitors who see the ads that are relevant to their searches.

Online reports are online 24/7.
The Contextual Advertisement system is updated 24x7 and the reports are available online so that you have access to the continually updated revenue reporting. The system tracks the ad performance of the page impressions, number of clicks, click through rates and overall revenue results.

Low cost for advertisers:
Pay only for genuine clicks that are generated manually. Repetitive clicks by the same user are tracked and the advertisers are protected against such tricks. In other words, this is performance based advertising where the advertisers need to pay only when someone clicks on their ads.

No slowdown of web pages:
The contextual advertisements do not slow down the loading of the web pages. These adverts appear only after the page is fully loaded. 

No special system requirements:
The contextual adverts are dynamic and are meant for web pages so they do not require special system requirements.

The nature is non-intrusive:
The contextual adverts have non-intrusive nature as these are extremely relevant to the content that is served to the user on his request.