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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
Yahoo! and PayPal have released a new program that will see the PayPal checkout icon appearing in Yahoo! Sponsored search results. The Yahoo! PayPal Checkout Program is aimed at creating a secure and seamless shopping experience for Yahoo! searchers and hopefully greater sales for advertisers.
Under the program, Yahoo! Sponsored Search advertisers who offer PayPal Express Checkout as a payment system can have the blue PayPal shopping cart icon displayed in their ads. According to the release post on the Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
When a user goes to Yahoo! Search to find an item or service, the results page may include Yahoo! Sponsored Search results matched to the user’s query. If the merchant has joined the Yahoo! PayPal Checkout program, a blue shopping cart icon will appear next to the merchant’s name in the Sponsored Search results. By clicking on the ad, users will have direct access to a safe, secure purchasing process that does not require any additional credit card information and can be completed in just a few mouse clicks.
With an estimated 130 million PayPal customers already on the internet, the new program could be a great way for Yahoo! to encourage more PayPal merchants to sign up for their pay-per-click advertising program.
It’s also an attractive program for new online businesses that are choosing which merchant facility to offer. By highlighting the payment options in advertising, it should help to reduce secure shopping fears, a conversion hurdle new businesses would surely like to avoid.
All told, one of the key goals of this initiative is to combat the growing adoption of Google Checkout by ecommerce sites. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a similar integrated checkout and advertising model from Google in the not too distant future.
Rene is the marketing manager of ineedhits.com - a global search engine marketing company. He also leads the marketing for Gooruze.com - a web 2.0 style community for online and digital marketers. Rene has been in the industry since 1997 with much of that time spent helping businesses embrace the best of the internet and digital world. Top 10 Listing! Get more targeted visitors to your site! No click fees! Find Out More Here | 1000+ Guaranteed Visitors Get thousands of guaranteed website visitors to your site in 30 days! Get Started Here |
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