Organic Traffic

What is Organic Traffic?

The organic traffic is the one which is coming to your website without any paid advertisements i.e. traffic from the unpaid sources like search engines which includes Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.

The Search Engine Optimisation concept is based on organic traffic with the purpose to improve website traffic and generate leads.

Importance of Organic Traffic for the Website

Organic Traffic Brings Potential Clients/Customers

Whenever any user searches on the internet, there is some intent and purpose to the search. They expect the content which is found after the search to satisfy that intent. Such viewers are most certain to become your customers/followers/subscribers.

You can easily predict and research the keywords that your potential customers are likely to use and optimise your website and content accordingly. When any users searches and find the page of your website in the search, the likelihood of conversion of that user to customer is very high.

Long-Term Cost Effectiveness of Traffic Generated from Organic Search

With paid campaigns, you have to keep optimising, testing and updating the ad creatives to lower your CPC (Cost-Per-Click)  and increase your CTR (Click-Through-Rate).

On the other hand, organic is not free it also takes time and money to be successful, but its still cheaper that Paid Campaigns in the long run.

There are different methods that can be adopted in order to generate organic traffic. Methods such as Content Creation, Brand Building, Social Media Marketing etc. are few methods that can be used. All the content that you create using such methods is there to stay. And they keep going up in value as time goes by. Even if you stopped investing in organic search, these assets would still be working for your business. You’d get traffic because you’ve built an ecosystem that fuels itself.

Organic Traffic Leads to Brand Building

Your potential customers use various search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo to find information and get answers to their queries daily.

Google alone processes 50,000-60,000 search queries every second. Now imagine: Every time user searches for keywords in your industry, they find you in the search engine on first page.

If you’re consistently showing up as the solution, you will become the prominent brand in their minds.

It means that every piece of content that leads searchers to you is extending your brand equity.

It Blocks your Competitors in the search results

When pursued aggressively, organic search traffic can effectively block your competitors’ online presence. The more effort you invest in improving organic search traffic, the higher your site appears in search rankings — pushing competitors further down the list.

It helps in bringing more regular and engaged visitors.

It adds Credibility to your Organisation

Sometimes users try to bypass paid links and promoted content and look for genuine content. A top result that appears to be promoted/advertised doesn’t appeal to them as much as an organic result .Credibility increases when potential customers find you on the top page of organic search, it’s an automatic boost in trust.