What works best for Digital Marketing?

[Queen_IB]

Hi Guys! I'd like to know..
Which on is more useful in Digital Marketing, SEO or PPC?
Why do you think so?

 

[Christler]

Both... if you are a beginner you should focus on one. Master one thing at a time!

 

[Aby]

Best answer

SEO is better than PPC and here is why.
What are the pros of organic traffic from search engines? Let’s begin with the pros:

Awareness. Visibility in search engines for your targeted keywords puts your business in front of potential customers in much the same way as if you were to advertise, and it drives brand awareness.

Branding. Visibility around commercial search terms and informational queries related to your business area can have a positive branding benefit. Your brand can become associated with and trusted by searchers who are asking questions as they conduct the research that will lead to a purchase. You can become an authoritative voice around a given topic.

Credibility and trust. Having your site return in the organic results can influence your perceived credibility with an audience looking for your services. Many users skip ads and trust organic results more highly. Being visible gives your business that all-important stamp of approval. Also having strong review and reputation signals in place will deliver further benefit.

Website traffic. Increasing website traffic provides you with more opportunities to drive awareness of your business and educate a prospect as to why they would buy from you.

Cost per click. Traffic from organic search is free… sort of. Developing that visibility will take time and effort (money), but there is not a direct charge for each impression or click.

Return on investment (ROI). Organic search engine traffic can provide an improved ROI over traditional forms of paid media and certainly improve upon PPC.

Cost. While SEO is neither cheap nor easy, it will generally be more cost-effective than all other marketing tactics for delivering brand awareness and relevant traffic to your website.

Sustainability. Unlike paid search marketing, organic traffic does not dry up the moment you stop paying. As such, efforts to develop organic traffic can sustain a business when marketing spend is cut back.

Improved click-through rate (CTR). A higher percentage of users click on the organic results. While there are exceptions to this rule, you will generate more clicks from a highly placed organic listing than from a highly placed paid ad.

More clicks overall. To maximize visibility and clicks, you will want to have listings in the paid and organic results. Keyword-level experimentation is needed here to see if you are paying for clicks you would get for free or increasing overall clicks and CTR in both paid and organic — but to truly maximize results, strong visibility in paid and organic is needed.

Scope. There are so many new queries every day that to maximize scope, you will need strong organic visibility. You will not want to pay for all kinds of clicks either or advertise every piece of content on your website.

Strategic advantage. Visibility in organic search is not quick or easy — which is a good and a bad thing. Once you have established yourself in the organic results, your competitors can’t simply buy their way in (assuming you have done things the right way). This can provide a strategic advantage over the competition if they are relying on paid search.

 

[Rob Whisonant]

I use both but if I had to select only one I would always choose PPC. Once you master PPC you can turn on the traffic flow as high as you want.

SEO takes a considerable time and you are subject to traffic loss when they change an algo.

Need more traffic? Just buy it. It's easier and you can get a lot more traffic when ever you want.

 

[Christler]

Christler

Thanks for the advice Rob!

 

[Freddy]

Digital marketing best way to build an email list in future not depending paid traffic

 

[nilpotter]

Hi Guys! I'd like to know..
Which on is more useful in Digital Marketing, SEO or PPC?
Why do you think so?

Both are useful in digital marketing. Among them, SEO is more effective.

 

[ellastien]

Not possible digital marketing without social media marketing. Although SEO is the most factor in digital marketing.

 

[nataliya smith]

Both are useful, but how much efforts you have to make on each strategy is depends on the product and the target market.

 

[monjur]

Organic SEO is long-lasting — a properly optimized site can keep a high position in the search results long after a PPC campaign has been turned off.

Search engine positioning is relatively stable whereas PPC ad positions continuously change according to your competitors’ bidding tactics.