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Is Paid Search Overtaking Organic Search?

Econsultancy recently did an article on how paid search results are dominating some search engine results pages. While this increases the overall value and revenue associated with the search engine results page, I’m not that optimistic that it increases the value for the search user.

Here’s a screenshot of the “credit cards” search engine results page:
paid search SERP

Here’s a great infographic from WordStream on the argument of paid versus organic search. While marketers may argue over which one is more impactful, if Google continues to shrink the organic search section there’s not much of a debate to have. I think it will be a sad day in online marketing when a great company can’t simply work hard to develop great content and get the attention they deserve.


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Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is CMO of OpenINSIGHTS and the founder of the Martech Zone. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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