Graybeard
Well-Known Member
Answer is not that simple.
'Organic' traffic is 'earned' traffic --earned by the merits of your content (or your short term trickery). The effectiveness (the conversion value) between these two types of organic traffic is very different. Like 8 and 2 difference.
'Paid Traffic' can vary a lot also. You cannot compare search engine ads or social media ads with bulk ad network ad purchases.
So, what are we actually comparing?
The answer as is is 42.
That's sort of asking what's better: a horse or dog?
You can eat either --I won't
'Organic' traffic is 'earned' traffic --earned by the merits of your content (or your short term trickery). The effectiveness (the conversion value) between these two types of organic traffic is very different. Like 8 and 2 difference.
'Paid Traffic' can vary a lot also. You cannot compare search engine ads or social media ads with bulk ad network ad purchases.
So, what are we actually comparing?
The answer as is is 42.
That's sort of asking what's better: a horse or dog?
You can eat either --I won't
In my experience, organic traffic brings more value.
Organic traffic is the result of your work. You will feel very satisfied when you see that traffic coming and how you saved tens of thousand of dollars. However, getting organic traffic takes a lot of time, some website never achieve an organic traffic level that can make good money. Marketing agencies will try to make you to pay them thousand of dollars to get organic traffic for you, but the results are not guaranteed.
Paid traffic, even if it is paid, is the cheap one. The work involved to get organic traffic has much more value than the money you pay for paid traffic. But it is as it gets: you pay you have, you stop paying the traffic stops.
It all depends on the business you want to set-up. If you want to set up a blogging business, then you should invest in content and marketing so it gets a lot of organic traffic. If you launch a product or sell a SaaS, you need people to try it, leave reviews, get feedback, etc, you cant wait months or years to get customers.
Paid traffic, even if it is paid, is the cheap one. The work involved to get organic traffic has much more value than the money you pay for paid traffic. But it is as it gets: you pay you have, you stop paying the traffic stops.
It all depends on the business you want to set-up. If you want to set up a blogging business, then you should invest in content and marketing so it gets a lot of organic traffic. If you launch a product or sell a SaaS, you need people to try it, leave reviews, get feedback, etc, you cant wait months or years to get customers.
Your question is invalid. Here, you need to also clarify for what purposes, what sort of traffic, etc. Many of our partners make good money only on organic traffic. But if you don't have a website but want to get money "here and now" - then paid traffic will help you do that.
Simply not true as a blanket statement. Organic is not a targeted traffic and is no where near as beneficial as paid traffic when monetizing. When monetizing a site, paid traffic is many times greater that organic. Organic traffic for monetizing cannot be tracked, cannot be targeted, cannot be forecasted, etc., etc.
Paid traffic is primary, organic traffic secondary, social traffic is tertiary.
PaidPoints
Well-Known Member
Paid Traffic can actually lead to organic traffic, because google will rank your website higher the more it gets traffic , no matter what traffic type it is. And the higher google ranks your site, the higher organic traffic you will start getting. So you do the calculations from this and see which is better.
