Google AdWords provides just about everything you could want in pay per click search advertising. It's quick and easy to set up an account and you can have your ads up and running in about 5 minutes from sign-up. There are excellent tutorials to help the new advertiser, and a number of good tools to assist advertisers to increase conversions.
There's an initial cost of $5 to set up an account and bids start at $0.01, although you should expect to pay a lot more than this for popular keywords.
Yahoo! Search Marketing maintains a highly professional, well maintained site. It pioneered the pay-per-click search engine model in 1997,after seeing a need for a more focused search engine. After operating as GoTo.com the name was changed to Overture and in 2005 it was rebranded as Yahoo!Search Marketing.
Yahoo's main product, Sponsored Search, provides sponsored listings in search results on the Web's top portals and search engines, reaching over 80% of active Internet users.
Yahoo! is currently offering a $25 free credit when you sign up.
MIVA is a network of partner sites powering over 2 billion queries per month. When you open an account with MIVA your ad can appear across the MIVA network, which includes sites such as CNet.com, InfoSpace and WorldNews.
MIVA's proprietary bid-for-position technology allows you to set the amount you wish to pay for each keyword.
MIVA provides a full suite of management tools to help improve ROI.
Get $25 in your account when you sign up with Miva today.
Search123 is the search engine services division of ValueClick US Media, part of ValueClick, Inc.
Launched in October 2000, the Search123 pay per click search engine network is made up of hundreds of high-quality content sites, directories and search engines that generate hundreds of millions of searches and millions of qualified clicks to advertisers each month.
Search123 will add $20 to your advertising account when you sign up with a deposit of $50.
ABCSearch has been around since 2001. According to ABCSearch it is the world's largest privately held meta search engine handling over 3 billion searches a month across its network of specialized engines and smaller search engines offering online advertisers an affordable way to diversify their PPC traffic efforts.
ABCSearch is currently offering up to $100 in free search traffic to PayPerClickSearchEngine.com visitors.
Microsoft adCenter is the new player in the big league when it comes to pay per click search marketing, but it's already making an impact.
It offers a great range of features including the ability to target your ads to Live Search users who match your optimum target-market criteria.
Signing up is quick and easy with a $5 sign-up fee. If you're spending $30 a day in search advertising you can take advantage of QuickLaunch and have one of the Microsoft Media Specialists help you plan, create, execute, and analyze your first adCenter campaign.
Marchex's stated mission is to provide consumers with the most comprehensive and compelling local experiences on the Internet; to provide local businesses with the best products for acquiring customers; and through a shared commitment to each other and to its customers, to deliver consistent product innovation and shareholder value creation.
It's done this by amalgamating its vertical search properties and other assets into its pay-per-click advertising channel, Adhere, providing advertisers with national presence and local impact.