Paid vs Organic Traffic

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Hello,

Some time i found websites who provide paid Traffic on Our websites.

I don't have idea is good for my website or not.

Suggest me which is the best way for my website Paid Traffic or Organic Traffic.
#organic #paid #traffic
  • Organic is the first preference. They are Two types of paid traffic first one is buying targeted web traffic. and another one is from PPC. Buying web traffic is not much beneficial. But PPC is 100% worth.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    This all comes down to how much profit per sale you make. If you make less than $30 per sale I wouldn't even consider paid advertising. If you are making $50 or more per sale, definitely do paid advertising but work on your organic SEO while running ads. At the beginning, all of your sales will come from ads which means less net profit. Over time, as you climb the rankings, more sales will come from organic at higher net profits.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesjennifer
    I think organic traffic is long term stability but paid traffic is fully payable. If you have enough budget then you can do both.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Depends If you can get good and reliable epc from Paid tarffic then paid is good since with that you can start earning soon.

    While with organic traffic it could take you a bit of time to start ranking and earning.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Organic traffic should be your priority under long term strategy but as it takes time to hold up you can rely upon PPC (if your budget allows) to give your site a quick start.
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  • Profile picture of the author Spintent
    Quick: Go with paid traffic

    Slow: Go with SEO

    HyperGrowth: Do both!
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  • Profile picture of the author RG16
    When it comes to online marketing you can either have organic results or paid results which lead to traffic going towards your website, this is where the debate is raised on paid traffic vs organic traffic and which is better for a business. Organic results and paid results are pretty self explanatory .

    where organic traffic is long term stability but paid traffic is fully payable. If you have enough budget then you can do both
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  • Hi, According to me organic traffic is must but in paid traffic Pay Per Click (PPC) is 100% worth.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maple Labs
    Their are two types of traffic organic and paid .......Organic is through SEO and paid is through PPC. if you have 0 budget then go for SEO organic links other wise go for PPC for faster results
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  • Profile picture of the author Tesslady
    Hi there,

    Organic traffic is the result of your SEO efforts. But sometimes, SEO will not work for a website, that is why opting for paid (i.e. PPC) traffic would come as a better option,

    But you know what... Why not do both? I suppose your business is in the software niche? Then SEO and PPC would be a great advertising duo for you

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author dipika13
    Traffic coming from SEO is free, while traffic generated from PPC ads is not free.
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  • Profile picture of the author GlobexWeb
    It a matter of your business Niche.

    If you have a high-profit business then promote your business with PPC. PPC helps you generate your targeted traffic towards your business and I think you will be happy in giving a few share to search engine.

    But if you have a blog or some low-profit business, then I recommend organic traffic. And Organic traffic is alway better than PPC.
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  • Profile picture of the author AkashBorah
    Organic traffic is mainly the traffic which comes to your web site naturally or from any search engines, from their search result pages. While if you are trying to get site visitors by paying anything then it will be counted as the Paid Traffic. It can come either by sponsored links from any search engines, when you search anything or from any web site which provide traffic to other, while they will charge for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrtom414
    I think the best approach is to determine on average how much is a customer worth to you. For example if your in real estate and a customer is going to spends 100's of thousand of dollars that customer is worth more than say a person who is going to spend $2 dollars on an ebook.

    To figure out what you can spend on PPC you need to know how many visitors it takes you to make a sale.
    If you have an ebook for example and you are selling it for $2 dollars and your budget allows 20% of the cost for marketing you would have 40 cents for PPC. If it takes 100 vistor to make a sell your ppc budget would be .40/100. or .004 of a cent which wouldn't work.


    hope this helpled
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
    This is rather individual and depends on the specifics of your business.
    Just try evaluating whether paid traffic is worth it in your particular case. If the profit from one single conversion is high enough - go for PPC (some great maths in the post above), in case it`s not - perhaps you should stick to SEO to gain organic traffic mainly. This will take more time and effort, and will require many more fundamental improvements, but this should also pay off in the long-run.
    Go both if you can and check the outcome.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryany018
    Organic traffic is best for long term, in case you are in a hurry to offer your product or service, the pay drops better.
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  • Profile picture of the author grandfaraone1
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    The best way is the organic traffic, but you can pay a company or a person specialist in seo field to make this job done.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jhelum Sen
    This is an ever long discussion or rather debate, whether paid search is better or organic. See, the main intention is to grab the attention of the public. So, you can do it either way. The difference is the money involved in it.
    Paid search is known as Pay Per Click (PPC), which involves price. You need to pay for it and then you will get the assurance that your website will get higher rank in SERP. But organic search is done with SEO, which is free but needs more attention and dedication.
    However, both are effective and necessary for any brand/company. So, invest in both and get a joint result. A single mode of digital marketing will not be sufficient to get a higher rank.
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    • Profile picture of the author AffiliateGuruAM
      Originally Posted by Jhelum Sen View Post

      This is an ever long discussion or rather debate, whether paid search is better or organic. See, the main intention is to grab the attention of the public. So, you can do it either way. The difference is the money involved in it.
      Paid search is known as Pay Per Click (PPC), which involves price. You need to pay for it and then you will get the assurance that your website will get higher rank in SERP. But organic search is done with SEO, which is free but needs more attention and dedication.
      However, both are effective and necessary for any brand/company. So, invest in both and get a joint result. A single mode of digital marketing will not be sufficient to get a higher rank.
      You know Organic traffic is a natural way to get real traffic and long time traffic. But Paid Traffic is short time. If you don't pay then you can't get any traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author MakeMoneyAM
    Short answer, In my experience Organic traffic is batter then Paid traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author AffiliateGuruAM
    I prefer you Organic Traffic. But you have to wait for earn and website rank so what it's batter for your website and you.
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  • Both are good but Organic Traffic best because Organic traffic are natural. You can chose Organic traffic, It's batter for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author iamthore
    Hi mate,

    in my opinion it really comes down to how fast you would like to see result. In my time as an onpage SEO for different marketing companies I found it very surprising at first how long it took till the articles we optimized actually ranked on google. For a decent rank on google (which comes down to various other factors (such as page authority etc.) it could takes weeks. However once you are listed with a proper article with good structure / keywording it's hard for competitors to kick you off the throne. As you probably guessed - scaling this method is not too easy due to the time involved in order to see / measure results.

    PPC instead is incredibly effective for short term results and scalability. If you know what indicators / numbers to look at, and you have enough patience to optimize your campaign over 7-14 days you can expect great results at a relatively low cost per click. Other than in SEO you can now simply put $ into your daily budget et voila - cheap traffic at a competitive cost.
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  • Profile picture of the author AMSuccessProgram
    Paid traffic is not effectable for your website it's buying targeted web traffic.I think organic traffic is good for website.
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  • IMO, paid traffic is better for those with unlimited financial resources or those with no restrictions on their finance. But the main difference between them being is that organic traffic is free and will always be there as long as the website is active (link back website) and paid traffic will stop once the money in the adwords accounts empties out. that is it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChristoFouche
    It all depends on how much profit you are making on your sales. If your profit margin is high enough go with paid advertising while you are building your organic and Social Media Traffic.

    It is also a good idea to start building a list so that you can do email marketing. In the long term this list is a great asset seeing that you can sell to it over and over again.
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  • Profile picture of the author dkate9
    Organic traffic is best obviously as its free. You need to create high quality content and backlinks. If your niche is high competition, you need a lot of times to push your rank.
    In paid traffic you can get good results in a very short period of time. It is a quick and easy way to get listed on Google and other search engines for keywords that are related to your business. Unfortunately, paid search marketing is also very expensive.
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  • Profile picture of the author martindam33
    Traffic coming from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is free, while traffic generated from PPC (Pay Per Click) ads is not free. PPC ads are displayed above organic search results or on the sidebar of search engine pages for search queries related to their topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author umakant13
    Paid and organic both are good in their position but organic traffic or referral traffic is good as they are long term traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Paid traffic comes in all flavors. Most of you think adwords of something. There's a different kind. It's called advertising. Every major company does it. Companies will spend millions during the Super Bowl. No large company in their right mind would ever rely on organic traffic for their business.

    But then, none of you seem to have a real business anyway, relying 100% on what google tosses you.

    Google does not run, own, or affect my online businesses. They are a part that is just icing on the cake.

    But man do I do a massive "get out the vote" effort daily.

    Paul
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