Search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising usually exist in two separate spheres, but it looks like the two worlds could be even more related that we had previously thought. A recent forum thread in Webmaster World asks an intriguing question: do AdWords prices go up each time Google pushes out an update to its search engine algorithm?

This almost makes sense, especially if your web properties were recently punished by Panda or some other Google algorithm update. Google could then artificially inflate the AdWords CPC pricing, since it knows that these publishers will be interested in regaining their traffic. Even if the inflation is real, thanks to an increased "flooding" of advertisers to AdWords, it means that the prices go up.

One forum user, "netmeg," brings up this exact point: "Changes in the algo could increase the number of advertisers because not everyone can afford to wait around to see if their SEO tinkering will bring the traffic back. In the short term, they may turn to AdWords."

Another theory is that Panda punishes the "lower end" publishers and pushes them off the AdSense map, thus reducing the overall inventory from which AdWords can pull. If the number of advertisers stay the same, then the bid prices naturally go up. Or it could all be in our heads.

An informal poll has been set up on Search Engine Roundtable, and it looks like 37.5% agree that AdWords prices go up after a Google algorithm update, whereas 22.5% say no. The rest don't know. What do you think?

We normally talk about search engine optimization (SEO) on this blog and how the changes to Google's algorithms can affect how you rank for certain keywords and keyword phrases, but another huge part of the equation comes from search engine marketing (SEM). This is when advertisers purchase ad spots on the search engine results page. Not surprisingly, we're seeing huge growth here.

According to a new report put out by eMarketer, spending on search advertising is expected to hit $19.51 billion in 2012. That's based on US spending alone and it represents a huge 27 percent growth compared to last year's figure of $15.36 billion. That's a lot of money and, not as you can likely expect, Google is leading the charge when it comes to scooping up that advertising revenue.

Part of this increase in spending is fueled by the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in London, as well as the US Presidential election, along with other major elections around the world. They're saying that Google will have a 77.9% share of that revenue for 2012, followed by Microsoft's Bing at 7%. The growth will slow over the next few years, but search ad spending will continue to rise.

And yes, Yahoo and AOL will be bringing up the rear with a combine share of barely over 5%, eroding down to even less by 2016. Google will be snatching up most of that, but Microsoft gets a small increase too. At least, that's what the predictions are saying.

What does this mean for all the SEOs in the audience? Getting higher rankings could prove even more valuable than ever before if advertisers are willing to spend that much more money for prime spots on the SERPs. Will you be shifting your focus from SEO to SEM? Or will you use some combined effort between the two?

Are you struggling in gaining more traffic and revenue for your own site? Does other pay-per-click advertising like Clicksor, Clickbooth, AdClickMedia and other programs give you less revenue and not enough hits and revenue to your site? We'll there's one program that might actually fit your needs in online advertising, and the program that I'm talking about is one of the trusted contextual advertising network in the internet right now. That's right, I'm talking about a program called Text Link Ads.

This is where famous affiliate programs like PepperJam are relying on their web trafficking strategy, and they have been very successful to it since they launched their website years ago. They post their own testimonial on the affiliate network itself, which more and more people are getting successful to them, thanks to the contextual advertising of Text Link Ads.

There are three types of members in the Text Link Ads program, and these are:

Advertisers - these are types of members which focuses on advertising their sites and gaining huge amount of traffic and unique visitors to their website.

Publishers - these are types of members which focuses on generating revenue on the ads they published on their blog. You may only apply if you have your own blog or website, and you can earn money through promoting the advertiser's ad which depends on the niche of your website and the traffic you're generating. You will earn a percentage of the clicks generated by the advertiser, depends on how much amount did they set for contextual advertising.

Agencies - these are types of members or group, exclusive as premium, which can supplement full time SEO services with advertisements from Text Link Ads, full access to over 40,000 publisher sites, receive competitive advantage that comes with professional recognition from Text Link Ads, and many more.

Take note that you can apply both as publisher and advertiser in one account at the same time. If you want to become successful in contextual advertising, don't hesitate to try Text Link Ads. It's for your own good to advertise and make money, and for sure you will not fail here.

Havng authority links is one of the main factors of improving your page rank and backlinks. It is where you get lots of customers and visitors to your website with great deals, offers and services. In the internet today, over 80% of the websites right now are relevant to their niches, especially when it comes to advertising and selling links and blog posts to the buyers. The others are just being sometimes irrelevant, but close related to the website and the rest are completely irrelevant. What are the effects of your website if it is relevant or irrelevant? How can you say that?

We'll, it's practically simple as it gets. For example, if you have a blog or website about debt consolidation and your ads, affiliate and CPA programs are matching the niche of your site, that is relevant. If someone had purchased advertising, blog posts and links which are related to debt consolidation, that is relevant. If you are advertising or building links to forums, social bookmarks and blogs that are related to your niche, that is relevant. You can get as many customers as you want, providing that you don't spam around or breaking their rules on posting messages around the corner. Many affiliate and online marketers are very successful at this point for just sticking to their relevancy, and not on the outside. It will assure that your page rank and backlinks will increase over and over again for posting on relevant sites, and it's possible to generate revenue from your ad networks too.

What about being irrelevant? It is just a reversal of being relevant. Like for example, if you are advertising a banner about drug pills to a web development forum, that is irrelevant. If someone buy blog posts from you which they will give you a topic about replica watches to be posted on your SEO blog or website, that's irrelevant. If you are advertising your dating website to a forex trading site, that's irrelevant. For sure, you get hits but you won't get customers at all. If you do this, you're such a complete idiot.

So now we know how important is to be relevant to yourself. Stick to the niche of the website you are dealing with. Offers, services and deals should be always relevant to your niche so that more and more internet customers are getting in your website and you will generate a sale, lead or just a customer itself. It assures you to increase your page rank, backlinks, page views, unique visitors and of course, your potential to be a successful webmaster.

Today, people opt for advertising methods because practically half of the world's population knows HTML. If you have your own business, you must select on what marketing technique works for you. Ask yourself what are you going to avail of: the expensive advertising methods or the cheap ones? Others will pipe in "expensive!" immediately, but they don't know cheap advertising technique which attracts great benefits.

Here's a comparative look on the cheap & expensive advertising methods:

The Expensive:

1. Pop-ups and pod casts. Not only this is expensive, but also outright annoying that visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they are all about. Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irking to the visitors. Broadcast is to TV as pod cast is to net. It is two sophisticated net marketing technique that can somehow hamper your budget. But if you are thinking results, pod casting is worth the funds.

2. Paying the search engines.

This is associated with another advertising technique: the pay-per-click technique. How does this two work? When anyone types in a keyword related to your site, your URL is automatically included in the first page of the top results. Fixed payment for the search engine allows that. Expensive? Yes! But if we're talking about Google & Yahoo search engines here, don't give a second thought.

The Cheap:

1. Blogging.

Go along the bandwagon & blog about your website. This is an advertising technique that is most popular as of this moment, so you never worry that it will never spur outcome. All you must do is sign up for a blogging account and do the posting. No need to pay.

2. Submit to other second-rate search engines.

This is truly cheap. If you submit your site to smaller search engines, you have bigger chances to get bigger results. Recall that the search engine giants can dwarf & overlook your site easily, so this advertising technique might be the right two for you.

3. Text links.

This is not cheap...this is virtually free! Let anyone text link your site & return the favor.

Cheap versus expensive, that is always the query that hounds on whenever we are trying to get something. In the field of net marketing, be wise to figure out what will suit your needs. Go for what you need as long as there's visible results in the internet today.