These days, a topic is discussed in SEO group.
What do u think SEO is better or SEM???
My respond and discussion with a friend “dominating_seo” as follow:
> > SEO is a long term strategy and SEM(PPC,Sponsor search,etc.) will bring you instant result(Visitors).
> > We’d better promote SEM(paid way) and at the same time strengthen our SEO development.
> > And, let’s use Adwords for an example, a seo-enabled website will have high quality score when it’s running campaigns of Adwords.
> > “The Quality Score used to determine minimum bid is derived from your keyword’s clickthrough rate (CTR), the relevance of the keyword and ad text to its ad group, your landing page quality, and other relevance factors. ”
dominating_seo said:
No1 can be said as better then other, coz both are different things:
SEO works for Organic Ranking
SEM works for Organic & Paid Rankings
So it can be said that SEO is a part of SEM
My point:
I agree with your viewpoint. SEO should be a necessary part of SEM.
However, I’m afraid we need to revise the evidence.
As Google said, Adwords Ads won’t effect the rank of the advertiser’s website. Links in Ad-text won’t be calculated as Reverse Link, neither. So, actually, Paid Search Engine Ads can hardly effect the Organic Ranking.
On the other side, SEO takes effect on Organic Ranking improvement, it will help landing page get higher quality score. Then it will be good to SEM.
So, SEO should be considered as an important part of SEM. : )