The main benefit of pay per click marketing is how in a relatively short period of time, the amount of traffic a web site receives can be increased dramatically. For a while now, people have been using this technique as it is clear this type of marketing comes out far ahead of other methods of advertising. Quite often the reason people don't use pay per click is because they just don't understand it; this article should provide sufficient information to make things clearer.The idea behind this is simple; you can advertise your site on another (possibly larger) website that receives a large amount of traffic especially those that cater  sales and marketing software. Then, whenever anyone clicks that ad, they will be taken to your site, and if they stay there for more than five or ten seconds, you will pay the hosting site a very small amount of money. The only way this system works is by placing adverts on sites that have content relevant to what you are advertising, otherwise it would be a complete waste of time and money. However this is not the only advantage because you only pay for the advertising when it is used, which means if someone doesn't visit your site through the link you do not pay.This is where the cost benefits come in against other forms of marketing where there is a cost up front without any guarantee the advert will even be noticed. Some people are worried about competitors clicking to run up their bill or lose them from the screen completely but in practice this rarely happens. When you use pay per click marketing, you will benefit from using directed and targeted marketing. People who see your ad are already interested in the product or service you are promoting.There are a number of these pay per click programs available but it is Google who have captured the market with their Adwords system. All that happens is people will only see your advert if they enter a search phrase or just a single word that you have designated Google to use. Depending on how much you have paid your advert will either be at the top of the search result page or in the right hand column.No-one can argue that this is an extremely fast and efficient way to see you advert and why so many people love pay per click. Whether the ad is going to be effective or not can be assessed very quickly with this method. For speed, efficiency and cost, pay per click search marketing is superior to just about every other method of advertising and that is why companies continue to use it.