02/09/2022
“What is the difference between SEO and PPC?”
These questions aren't complete without talking about organic and paid search results. SEO helps your business earn more visibility in search results. It’s important to mention, however, that SEO only targets organic search results. In search results, many search engines include paid and organic search results.
A paid search result is an ad promoting a business and its services. That’s why searches with a purchase intent, tend to feature ads. Overall, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising offers many companies a new strategy for promoting.
While paid ads appear first in search results, it’s still valuable to earn a top spot in organic search results, which follow paid search results. That’s because paid ads aren’t free. When someone clicks on your ad, you pay for it.
In comparison, you pay nothing when a person clicks on your site in organic search results. Not to mention, 70% of clicked search results are organic. That means most users click on organic search results, rather than paid ones.
But, that doesn’t mean PPC advertising isn’t useful!
It’s an excellent digital advertising tool, as well as a strategy that supports SEO. You can use PPC, for example, to give your company immediate visibility in search results, which is helpful because SEO takes a few months to show results.