• Section: Increase Traffic - Category: SEO/SEM
• Written by Meenakshi Wali

The organic search results have an extra benefit over the paid searches. Many businesses believe that it is better to invest in PPC as they are faster than organic but they do not realize the log term consequence of these PPC campaigns. Here we shall be discussing a few points that rank the organic search as a better medium for search engine marketing than PPCs.

Ranking in the organic searches might be a slow process but it is a more steady and persistent where as PPC campaigns are temporary and require regular monetary investment in order to reflect results.

The general tendency of the surfers is to click on the organic results more than the paid ones. Especially with those who are aware of the concept of PPC. An online study on user tendency stated that the school going children are more likely to click on he paid ads of the search engine than the grown ups. This indicates the target audience with whom the paid searches would be more beneficial than

with others.

The PPC campaigns are sting by the click fraud spam. This is a kind of spamming tendency where the paid ads are clicked only for increasing their rates. Such operations too, have made PPCs unpopular with the advertisers. The click fraud unnecessarily increased the click charges without actually showing any conversion or lead. Many competing sites often delve into such practices in order to demolish their competitors search engine marketing strategy.

The conversion rate of organic clicks is almost equal to that of PPC. Thus, there is no extra benefit that the paid listings are actually providing apart from eating up on good money from your pocket.

The only striking benefit that the paid listing has over the organic searches is that they provide a platform for testing. The advertisers have the benefit of experimenting with various keywords to find out which one is more suitable and beneficial to their website, and the results will be quite quick too. This will result in greater conversion and a subsequent rise in leads or sales.

But this isn't sufficient to pull through your search engine marketing strategy. Most websites these days are making use of both the techniques in order to yield maximum results for their efforts.

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