SEO vs Pay Per Click
SEO vs Pay Per Click
Which is best SEO or Pay Per Click
I was recently posed the question by one of my colleagues, seo or pay per click which is better, after thinking about it for several minutes, l had to answer seo, has an seo consultant l am aware of the pros and cons for both seo and pay per click.
My colleague asked me why l chose seo over pay per click, l explained, with pay per click there is advantages, yes you do feature on the first page of the search engines for your keywords in a short period of time and yes you can generate inquiries instantly, but with seo, once your website as been optimized correctly you will also feature, a negative for pay per click is that it generates a maximum of 18% of the inquiries, compared to the natural listings, or organic listings if you want to call it that, which receives around 75% of the inquiries.
The reason the pay per click only generates a small percentage of inquiries, is that most of the time you will feature on the right sand of the page, this as a downside to it, in Europe we all learn to read from left to right, so when ever you type in a search phrase, for example search engine optimisation, and the results appear, the human brain takes over, and you instantly click on the first thing that you will see, and that will be on the left, in Arabia it works the other way round, that is why when ever search one of the Arabic search engines, you will see everything feature on the right hand side, another negative against pay per click, is that anyone can click on your website and you will incur the cost, competitors constantly click on your website, though they are not supposed to, another negative with pay per click is that the cost can spiral out of control, as your competitors are constantly raising their bids and you have to in order to keep your ad on the first page, if you are competing against a corporate company, you cannot win, their advertising budget will outlast yours every time, so this is why l have to declare that SEO wins hands down.
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