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What Is The Difference Between SEO And Google Ads?

What Is The Difference Between SEO And Google Ads?
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What is the difference between SEO and Google Ads? Google Ads is obviously with paid ads. We run ads, you pay for placing your ads on Google. Well, you don't pay for placing it but pay for when somebody clicks on it. on Google and is the properties and partners. Whereas SEO is the organic way to get ranked on Google.

So let's say if I search for a particular Keyboard. I'll bring this over here. So, I'll just search for Google Ads dentist, right? So, you see the ads at the top. This is where the organic listings are. So, it goes sometimes they show the Google Maps over here and so on. So, if somebody clicks on here, I don't get any charges.

Get free traffic. It's not free actually because we need to do a fair amount of work to rank on Google page one. It's not easy. Every niche, every vertical or market you go or you are bidding for will have competition. So, you need to be doing some content marketing, uploading your blogs regularly. Social proof plays a big part over here as well.

And there are lots of other signals which Google will take into account and then rank websites, you know, to see for five and so on. This is the organic one. What we also do is we get our videos ranked on Google page one. And this is something very few companies and businesses are leveraging. Google will show up to four different videos on Google page one.

This is free traffic as well. And it's a very powerful way to have multiple links on Google page one. Now over here if I had one more blog post which Google thought is really good and is rankable. I can have multiple SEO rankings over here. But not on the ads. You can't you'll only have one ad over here at the top not multiple.

But you can have as many links over here if Google thinks that your website links are better than the competitors then you will get ranked. So, right now over here on this page, I've got one as my text link. Three as my video. And this takes up a huge real estate. On Google and you can see that these are the only links with an actual custom image which has got my headshot on it.

Or it could have your logo go on it. So, it's a very powerful way to get ranked on Google and I would highly recommend that you start with video marketing if you already haven't started yet.

Which is better: SEO or Google Ads? Learn the difference between SEO and Google Ads and decide which is right for your business.

Google Ads

  • Google Ads are paid ads.
  • When you create an ad campaign you pay for a budget and when someone clicks on the ad.
  • Google Ads are mostly present at the top of the Google search page and will have ad within their text.
  • Companies will pay an amount if their ad is clicked on the Google search page.

SEO

  • SEO is the organic way to get ranked higher on the Google search page.
  • Using SEO and the right keywords will boost your website up the ranks of the search page.
  • Ranking on the first page of Google is very difficult so even though you don’t pay for clicks, you have to work to improve SEO to rank on the first page.

Another useful way of ranking on the Google search page is to produce YouTube videos and include them in your SEO and Google Ads campaign. Google will show up to four different YouTube videos on page one and it is free traffic for your business or company. It’s a very powerful way to have multiple links on Google page one. 

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If your company has multiple organic web pages, blogs or landing pages that Google finds rankable and appropriate for page one, then you can have all of them ranked on the search page since it’s not an ad. However, you cannot have multiple ads from the same ad campaign or website ranked on the search page.

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Written by Uzair Kharawala

Partner at SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.

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