Pay Per Click ad impressions up 16% in 6 months

Pay Per Click ad impressions are up 16% in the last 6 months per Nielsen/NetRatings reports ClickZ. Sponsored link ad impressions grew from 55.4 billion to 64.3 billion since just last August.
What does that mean for law firms and professional services firms? One, more people are doing searches on the net. It takes increased searches to generate more search engine results pages and thus more displays/impressions of sponsored links.

Two, more businesses like yours are recognizing the value of buying sponsored links. There’s value for two reasons. One, targeted (topic and locale) sponsored ads are dirt cheap for law firms and professional services firms compared to other advertising. Two, more businesses seeing the opportunities to draw traffic are running sponsored ads.

Source of post: Legal Search Marketing Blog.