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Organic search vs. paid advertisement

by Vandana on 2006-08-27

When it comes to promote website or business on the Internet, to start attracting the targeted audience to the website, question arises how do you attract the targeted visitor to you website? Broadly two advertising modules come in the mind of webmasters. First approach is to place the paid ads on the Internet, which includes directories, portals, search engines like yahoo and Google. The other one is organic or natural traffic through search engines when any one is searching information on the search engines by using keywords is called Organic Search Engine Optimization.

Paid Web Advertisement
Paid web marketing is the fast way to start driving the traffic to your website and effective too. The methods involves
1) Paid banner advertisement on other websites
2) Pay per Click on Google, Yahoo and Other major search engines.
3) Press releases

Organic/ Natural Web Marketing
Organic traffic, as the name implies, it’s the traffic come to websites naturally through the search engines, directories, blogs. Some more Natural Web Marketing Includes
1) Referred from search engines.
2) Any link on web
3) URLs on Letter head, business cards, etc

Paid or Organic - Which Method I should use for my website?

When it comes to select one best option between the two either Paid and Organic, most webmaster do mistake here by comparing one and neglecting the other method.

To reap maximum benefits. The webmaster should not give ignorance to one. Paid methods are quickest methods to catch the eye balls of visitors and driving the traffic to new websites, especially for an e-commerce website till organic listings kicks in.

The natural/ organic search marketing take few months to harvest the benefits as like you sow the seeds and the results come after few months. Organic search marketing requires optimistic patience and time.

If you already have the organic presence then paid campaigns can boost up the traffic.

Market a website is important to establish the brand identity, whether it’s through organic free listing or paid advertising.

Facts You Should Mind Before Launching Paid Campaigns

1) Don’t List very generic keywords related to industry domain. The keywords should highly specifically to your services and region. For example if you have Web Design Company in UK, then you should use not very generic keywords like web design and website design, generic keywords can ruin your advertising budgets.
2) Description should be enough impressive to attract the visitors.
3) Landing URL should be highly related to keywords you bid.
4) Be sure about the daily and monthly budgets. You should keep an eye on which keyword is getting clicks, and compare the conversion ratio.
5) Tweak the descriptions and keywords if you find the keywords are not getting enough clicks.

So now you able to choose the appropriate method to drive traffic to your website. Remember, simplify launching website can’t solves the purpose itself. Your website could be the effective tool to generate the traffic and revenue or sales leads.

Brijesh Kumar is an Internet Marketing Specialist and owns SEO Services India, a search engine optimization and marketing company.


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