Five Reasons: Why SEO Is Better Than Paid Online Marketing
Online Marketing is becoming an essential marketing medium for a successful business
. If a business can successfully marketing their product or service online they open many new doors to potential customers and sales leads. A well structured and organised SEO consultant will suggest two avenues for online marketing, Search Engine Optimisation and Paid Online Marketing (like Pay Per Click). Ideally you would be able to afford both paid and unpaid marketing campaigns but if you are like most businesses you are on a budget and need the proof that online marketing actually works.
The most common phrase I hear is "But everyone knows who we are and what we do" in relation to their business. This is just not true otherwise every potential customer would already be beating down your door wouldn't they? There is always room for growth and if you sell a product or service then there is always online marketing potential.
So, let's explore why SEO is far superior to paid online marketing.
1. SEO is a long term strategy for your online marketing. Should you implement pay per click or other paid online marketing then as soon as you stop paying your bills to the advertiser the traffic to your website will stop. Although you pay for setting up an SEO campaign with a reputable agency often their other client's results are so impressive it is almost compelling to go with SEO instead. With SEO, should you stop paying for the refinements a reputable firm might charge at an ongoing rate, you might only see a slight leveling off of website traffic.
2. With pay per click marketing you pay for every visitor delivered to your website whether they like your service or not. With Search Engine Optimisation your website will hopefully appear high in the free search results and this will mean you do not pay for a click through to your website - effectively once your SEO is setup every click or visitor to your website is free.
3. False or fake click throughs. In a study released in August 2007 it was determined that 18% of click throughs on pay per click links on Google were false. In other words this could be competitors clicking through to your website just trying to cost you money in advertising.
Five Reasons: Why SEO Is Better Than Paid Online Marketing