{"id":2935,"date":"2022-01-06T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/search-incrementality-how-paid-and-organic-work-together-for-better-performance-378320\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:44:44","slug":"search-incrementality-how-paid-and-organic-work-together-for-better-performance-378320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/search-incrementality-how-paid-and-organic-work-together-for-better-performance-378320\/","title":{"rendered":"Search incrementality: How paid and organic work together for better performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
“When people tell me they can pause SEM and be fine with their performance on the holistic level on their site with just the organic listings, how do I react?” Jonathan Kagan, VP of search at 9Rooftops said at SMX Next<\/a>, “First of all, no, absolutely not — unless your name is eBay, which is one of the few brands that have proven that they can do it without that, it’s not going to work for you.”<\/p>\n When the assumption is that your organic rankings are strong enough to keep traffic stable, some brands may be tempted to cut back on paid campaigns<\/a> to save money. As Kagan mentioned, that can be true for brands that are household names, but for most queries, the search results page will show a variety of domains and paid search ads can increase the amount of real estate a brand takes up on the page.<\/p>\n “So, it’s essentially the concept of if you see it enough times, you’re more likely to go to one [brand] than the other,” he explained. To help brands better understand what’s driving their search marketing, Kagan shared a case study about search incrementality and the steps he uses to evaluate the impact of paid campaigns working in tandem with organic efforts.<\/p>\n “Assume your organic listings are operating by themselves,” Kagan said as an example, “There is no paid search present and it produces 100 visitors to your website.” <\/p>\n “Now, assume that you have paid search — SEM is running by itself for various keywords and you have absolutely zero organic presence and that drives 100 visitors,” he continued, noting that this scenario is more realistic for non-brand keywords.<\/p>\n “Theoretically, when the two of them are together, paid search and organic together should deliver 100 visitors because they’re both present for the same queries. What we actually see, however, is a degree of incrementality where it will actually exceed the original expected 100 visitors,” he said, pointing to studies by Melissa Mackey<\/a> and Anindya Ghose and Sha Yang<\/a> that show degrees of incrementality.<\/p>\nPaid and organic: More than the sum of their parts<\/h2>\n