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Old February 7th, 2008, 05:58 PM
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SEO verses PPC
Based on your previous experience, have you has better results with natural search engine results or from using PPC programs like adwords, YSM etc.?
I have personally had better results with SEO and have managed to get a steady stream of 6,000 unique visits per day. I have alot of experience with over 10 different PPC programs and I may someday go back to them when I have found a really high converting website.
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It all comes down to the time that you've got to spare. I've got a site that I have PPC for, and that works for me. But that is mainly because the time that I'd need to write articles, find links, etc is worth a whole lot more to me then that small amount that I'm paying for the PPC service. If I could spare the time to do more SEO work on it, I would love to, but there's always a fine balancing act on these things.
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6000 visitors per day is great. Well done.
I also use SEO most of the time but I use PPC if I want to generate traffic quickly.


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Seo easily because once you get your site ranked in the top 10 you know exactly how much work is needed to keep it there . PPC just drains your pocket books.
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Just wondering how are you monetizing all those visitors?


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I like organic search engine traffic (SEO). PPC is probably great short term, but as soon as you stop your campaign your traffic is likely to drop off dramatically.

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PPC is short term and SEO is long term .Ultimatly SEO is beneficial.
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I'd say that it depends on what kind of buisines you're in - If you're interested in selling cars then choosing seo would be
a bad choice to optimize your site on the word "cars" where as using the same word on adwords would be a smart idea
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