
How Pay-Per-Click Advertising Can Enhance Your Search Engine Optimization
Posted on July 13th, 2009 in Advertising | No Comments »
The more time spent focusing on Internet marketing, the more commonality I find between different marketing disciplines. Take pay-per-click advertising for example. PPC can be one of the most powerful tools you use to improve the effectiveness of your search engine optimization campaigns.
Just a like a company’s house list, the information they gather from their own PPC campaigns can provide a significant boost to the effectiveness of their search engine optimization efforts. The key is to know what information you’re looking for and how to use it to generate qualified visitors to your website.
Qualified visitors are those that have a higher degree of interest in your products or services and a greater likelihood of purchasing your products. I’ve often seen websites that have reduced their traffic while significantly improving conversion rates. The result is lower costs related to traffic acquisition and higher revenue. With more revenue and less expense, margins reach a new level of success.
Once you’ve done your homework and you know which keywords generate the greatest number of click-through and most importantly conversions, you are then in a position to use PPC to support SEO. More specifically, by finding the converting keywords, you can focus your SEO efforts around those terms that convert. These are the phrases that you want to appear in the number one organic position.
By looking at your PPC results, you can quickly find the keywords that lead to conversions. This information is golden. Not only can you use this to generate more traffic to your website, but you can also use this information to drive the right kind of traffic to your site. With the right focus, you can improve conversions and lower costs – because you’re not attracted bad traffic, rather, you’re only attracting the type of browsers who want your product or service.
Think about it this way. If you are using pay per click marketing to promote your product or service, then you have a particular keyword or keyword phrase that not only generates traffic but generates conversions as well. This is valuable information because this is what your seo campaign should be focused on. Put your energy into optimizing for this winning keyword phrase and you’ll enjoy more targeted traffic and can cut back on your PPC expense.
Optimizing for the right terms is a great start but won’t close the deal. Once you drive traffic through organic search, your landing page must be relevant and have a strong call to action. Get your search engine optimization campaigns up and running and then consider your landing page strategy. Is your website taking advantage of every visitor? What type of conversion rates are you seeing. SEO is more than just attracting browsers, it’s making sure they convert when they arrive at their destination.
Winning at search engine optimization begins with a winning PPC strategy, data, and a knowledge of what keywords convert for you. Armed with this information, you can influence your search engine campaigns and make sure you’re focused on the phrases that generate the biggest bang for the buck. PPC and SEO really do work together.

