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by Tom

Organic traffic is website traffic that comes for free from search engines and directories over time from content you have written long time ago that search engine crawlers have indexed.

When someone searches for a key phrase on the search engines, your blog post may pop up in the results and you will get organic traffic when someone visits your site from this search result.

Organic traffic is free, but the downside is that it takes time to build traffic this way.Pay per click traffic is quick, but your traffic will stop immediately when you stop paying for it.So which is better, organic traffic or Pay Per Click? Will organic traffic get you more customers than PPC? Here are a few opinions.

True or False: Organic Traffic Converts Better than PPC
That’s not to say that organic traffic doesn’t convert well, it’s just that PPC converts better. Below is the data in Google Analytics (I cut it all up in order to make it fit in a reasonable amount of space) …

5 Internet Marketing Strategies That Don’t Work | Court’s Internet …
I am sure Court will answer you but IMO, you have to combine SEO with a managed PPC campaign. Organic traffic is best because you pay nothing for the traffic. The “trick”, of course finding the right keywords to target. …

What Do My Traffic Sources Indicate?
For one thing 80% of organic traffic does indicate that search engines tend to like the site, so building keyword focused pages and bringing even more organic traffic would make sense. T. That being said, even a site owner … If you’re using PPC, I’ve heard that high search engine traffic is ideal. If you’re using affiliate deals that are CPA, having referrals is a sign of trust and credibility which should make it easier to sell in theory. excITingIP.com on October 9th, …

The Effect of Site Structure on Organic Traffic | Search Engine …
From August 2007 to November 2008, the site didn’t really pick up many organic visitors, and we relied on PPC for most of our quality traffic. Then, something happened that changed everything. Our site structure had been flat like this: …

Organic Search Traffic is More Qualified Than …
Welcome to PPC Myth week! Today is the first installment of a 3 part series challenging common misconceptions about search marketing and analytics. Myth #1: … SOME organic traffic is better “qualified” than others. Remember, in this context “qualified” means more likely to purchase. If you look through your organic search referring keywords, you’ll find a number of non-transactional terms, and transactional terms that are not necessarily close to purchase or even …

Which one is better, organic traffic or PPC? Leave a comment!

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Bachrum November 18, 2009 at 10:07 pm

I do agree with your statement that the organic traffic is free and better than the paid one. But there is not easy to get our site on the top of SERP. Is the high Pagerank really guarantee that our site will be appear on the first page in SERP?
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Tom Lindstrom November 19, 2009 at 1:16 am

Hi Bachrum! High page rank is not a guarantee that your site will appear first.I have seen websites with PR 0 appear higher than a site with PR 5 for instance.

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Bachrum November 19, 2009 at 8:29 pm

I red some article mentioned that specific page/URL have their own pagerank based on the keyword / anchor text linked to them. Maybe it is the cause of site with PR0 appear higher than the PR5. Are you agree with that? Thanks for the quick response…

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Tom Lindstrom November 20, 2009 at 1:25 am

I only know that Google looks at many different factors when deciding how high a site ranks and page rank is just one of them.The more you have inbound links from related sites will help.

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