Showing posts with label Free Listings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Listings. Show all posts

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Advantage of Organic Search Engine Rankings

PPC is the best way to get people to your website instantly. Still the benefits of organic search engines rankings can easily ignore the advantages of PPC. And when I say organic search engine rankings, I’m talking about the non-sponsored results you see on the left hand side of the screen when you do a search in Google, Yahoo, MSN, or your favorite search engine.

I want to take a few minutes here to explain why every webmaster needs to be spending at least a little time making sure their website is optimized for the search engines.


Ad Blindness

Almost 80% web users ignore PPC advertising. Although the Ads show up on the page, but the savvy Internet users don’t even see them. They’re only concerned with the “natural” or “organic” listings. That means that if you are using only PPC to generate revenue for your business, you’ll be busy fighting with all the other advertisers for a mere 15% of the market while those who focused on getting high search engine rankings (for organic listings) have 100% of market available to them.


Organic Listings More Trusted

There is also a trust factor for organic listings. People are naturally skeptical of advertisers. It’s just the nature of the beast. In fact, over 90% of Internet users trust the organic search engine results more than they trust sponsored results. As you may be starting to realize you’re facing an uphill battle when a visitor does decide to click on your PPC advertisement. Not only are most of users ignoring you, eliminating a big portion of your potential market, most of them are clicking on your ad with a lot of skepticism.


Organic Listings Are Free

And if the fact that your message is more trusted and not ignored with natural search engine rankings haven’t convinced you to at least give it a try, then you may want to know that natural search engine rankings are Free! You don’t have to pay to get a top search engine ranking, and you never have to pay a fee when someone clicks on a link to visit your website. While not all search engine rankings last, especially if you neglect them, some of them can last indefinitely. If you have a quality website that ranking in top 10 search engine rankings, then it is easy to maintain the position by just updating it frequently. But you have to maintain the relevancy of your site’s content, i.e. never focus on a single topic.


If you’re not already taking advantage of natural search engine rankings to drive traffic (and sales!) to your website, then it’s time to get started. And SEO Techniques is the process by which you can maximize your site’s exposure in different search engines and improve your ranking in organic listings.