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Which Is More Affordable: SEO or PPC?

Everyone in the internet marketing business is on a constant quest to find the most inexpensive way to get traffic to their site so they can start making money. To that end, we constantly hear people asking which is more affordable: SEO or PPC? The answer, as you might expect, is more complicated than you really want it to be.

The problem is that ‘affordable’ means different things to different people. Let’s say, for example, that you came to the table prepared and you started your online business with $10,000 cash in the bank to get started with. You can easily spend $2000 on a high-quality website and another $1000 on content — but you’ve still got plenty left over to live on while you shell out another $1000 each month on killer SEO. You can afford to wait a little while for customers, but when your money runs out you’re going to need the best traffic-per-dollar that you can get.

You want to invest in SEO.

On the other hand, let’s say you’re doing online business on the side while you work a 9 to 5 job. You don’t have a lot of money up front, but you’ve set aside $150/week to spend developing your online business. You need your profits back right away or your expenses will outpace your ability to spend. You’re not as concerned with traffic-per-dollar, but you are definitely interested in a speedy return.

You want to invest in PPC — specifically, in a PPC management firm.

Of course, you may be in a position to do both, and there’s nothing wrong with that — SEO and PPC are perfectly good neighbors and they work well together. The PPC brings in immediate, consistent, targeted traffic while the SEO builds up to a point at which it can sustain your business, at which point you can drop the PPC in favor of your own natural, organic traffic.

But when the final analysis comes in, the question of SEO being more or less affordable than PPC depends entirely on your financial situation. Based on the market numbers (80% of the money spend on search engine marketing goes to PPC and only 20% to SEO), most companies are looking for that quick return, even if it’s more expensive up front than SEO.

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  13. I have a small business and a website now i want to market it through Internet. I have read little about SEO and PPC. I spoke to a few companies but they are charging beyond my capacity. Also i am not sure of their service. Can anyone suggest some good SEO consultant or affordable internet marketing company in India ( preferaly kolkata) ?

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  17. How does it affect SEO, how to select/use keywords effectively…

    a) Domain name

    b) Title Tags

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  18. In other words, what can get my local small business to appear on page 1 of google when customers search “Contractors in Algonquin IL” or similar?

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  19. With Search Marketing (PPC), I basically break even. For every $30.00 sale I make, I pay about $25.00 in PPC charges + paypal and hosting costs. My business is basically breaking even on a product with a HUGE markup. How does anyone make it in this industry? Does SEO work, or are there better ways to get customers to your website? Thank you-

  20. Have a website how do I put it to work, how do search engines work? Yahoo, Google and all the others?

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  22. Who would be the professionals working with me? Also I would like to know how lucrative this business is and how much is the investment needed to run this business?

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  24. I’m not looking for PPC. I would like to get SEO services at a a reasonable price that will place my site on the first page on Google and Yahoo. Is that even possible?

  25. I’m in charge of managing the website for my school. However, when you enter the school name on Google, the website doesn’t show up until the second page. How can I get the site ranked so that it appears at or near the top of search results – or just even the first page?

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  27. I want to open a international online shop on electronic products. I have good sources, but I really do not know how to promote it.I have found many comparison shopping engine online, such as nextag.com ,thefind.com and bizrate.com, I thought they will be helpful for me, but , most of them cost much, according to the click, similar with PPC.So, do you have any other ways to promote a new online shop, the products on it are cheap. Except forum, blog,articles.By the way, some online shopping habit is helpful for me. For example, if I want to buy a cell phone onine, I will go to ebay and tabao fisrt. What will you do firest?

  28. As I found out the biggest market on the planet is the internet
    ( I mean..online users and now mobile users with smartphones as Blackberry, iPhone and Android )..

    Because I wonder how to get clients online at low cost, and how to manage huge list of potential clients ?

    A friend told me to look for keywords as : Safe List, Email Autoresponders, Mailing System.. Do you know more related words ?

    Can anyone have a pozitive experience, getting online customers with free or affordable software ?

  29. any ideas on how to market a printing business, promotions, where to advertise, PR ideas or marketing campaigns?

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