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If you have ever been involved with an all-encompassing online marketing campaign you will be all too aware of how many different branches there are. It also won’t have escaped your attention how much it can cost too.

Pay per Click advertising, or paid search, is a great way for picking up further clicks for your targeted keywords. However it does come with its own financial implications. Whilst effective, you do have to pay a set charge for each click that your advert receives. So if you aren’t getting any financial return for your paid adverts, you end up leaking money from your budget.

Social media takes a lot of time to develop and often doesn’t have much in the way of tangible results. As it is a format based on participation and interaction, the basis of your work will be on creating relationships. The divide between being too promotional and not advertising enough is remarkably slender. You have to get the balance right.

With something that is so finely balanced and won’t necessarily bring the targeted traffic you’re looking for, allocating resources to social media can be difficult. Time can get away from you and your budget can soon be stretched as a consequence.

SEO, much like social media, doesn’t come with any guarantees of success. However, when done properly it can provide you with long-term benefits that far outstrip any of its counterparts. Here’s a few reasons why.

When you have a fully optimised web page, it stands a very good chance of appearing within the upper echelons of the search engines. This provides you with a round-the-clock marketing opportunity. Your site can gain global coverage and attract visits day and night, just from one well-ranked pages.

Of course that is just one page. If you can do this for all of your main pages, you have the opportunity of attracting huge volumes of targeted traffic. Better still each one of these clicks is absolutely free. You won’t have to bid for advertising slots or pay a small fee every time somebody glances one of your pages.

Plus you don’t have to man the fort all day. Your website will go on attracting views, building its own reputation without you even having to be awake. When you have an optimised site it will go on generating interest.

Of course SEO isn’t a stop-start process though. It takes a great deal of concerted effort to get right, especially across the many pages of a large site. The time needed to get it just right is no small investment in itself; however, it does perhaps offer the best chance of a genuine return.

SEO brings you exposure too. Yes, you can build your reputation through social media; but reputations don’t necessarily  bring returns. Getting your name seen and earning clicks from Google brings a whole host of advantages; better still, they are measurable advantages too.

So whilst you shouldn’t turn your back on all other forms of marketing, you should certainly give some serious thought to putting SEO in pole position.