Many marketers make the case to use the intelligence learned in SEO to put into a PPC campaign. Such a strategy could be revising content on landing pages, changing title tags and description tags, long tail keywords, etc. Implementing these changes could have an effect on Quality Score, CTR, Avg CPC, Ranking, etc.

But, I say how about doing it the other way around also? Why not use the performance data from Paid Search for SEO purposes to lower your total CPC cost?

For example, if there is a high traffic keyword, and/or a very expense keyword, why not optimize one of your webpages for that term? That way, you’ll end up saving a lot of money from Paid Search because of your SEO.

Rather than going after the “head terms” first, you might want to give this a try on your Long Tail Keywords. Once your chosen webpage has been optimized for that expensive keyword, sit back, relax (not too long), and watch all that “free” traffic from that once-upon-a-time expensive keyword.

Using PPC data for SEO

Originally from Shimon Sandler by Shimon Sandler