Advantages and Disadvantages of Search Engine Marketing [SEM] - Faisal

Introduction

SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing, a very useful tool to rank a site quickly, it is an SEO-like tool that helps you to rank your site top of the list.

With the help of SEM not only you can get your site ranked faster by paying, but also you can bring a lot of traffic to the site which can generate a lot of revenue.

But where there is one side of the picture, there is the other side of the picture also.

While SEM has many advantages, it also has many disadvantages. 

In this article, we will see the advantages of SEM and also the disadvantages of SEM.


Before we start our topic, we need to know what search engine is and what marketing is so that the grip on our topic can be strong.

What is Search Engine

Search Engine is a service that allows users through www to collect content, information from all over the internet. 

What is Marketing

marketing refers to the positioning and offering of a company through promotion the buying and selling products or services.

So far we have seen;

Now we can know the definition of Search Engine Marketing. 

Advantages and Disadvantages of SEM

Now that, we have taken a separate overview of the search engine, marketing, and search engine marketing, we will be able to know now the pros and cons of SEM

Advantages of SEM

• Instant and fast results
• Source of constant on the webpage
• The flexibility of running ads
• Targeted advertising
• Measurable
• Click base payment method
• Rank the website quickly

Disadvantages of SEM

• High competition
• Difficult to manage
• Disposals of rights with the rightful owner
• Can create a high bounce rate
• Need specialized knowledge

Advantages of SEM

Now we will see the advantages of SEM one by one.

Instant and Fast Results

We can get instant and fast results by clicking the consumers, as many people search the too many keywords, through this we can gain too much traffic at our site.

Source of Constant on the Webpage

we can stay our advertisement or website as long as we want at the top of the pages by giving rent to the search engine.

The Flexibility of Running Ads

Here we can find the flexibility of running ads by changing the scenario time by time.

Targeted Advertising

we can run the advertisements to targeted area people etc. 

Measurable

we can measure our activity at search engines with reviews. how many times our site is visited etc. 

Click Base Payment Method

It is a very big advantage of SEM because we don't pay by staying at the search engine but pay only when someone will click at our page or site. it is called CPC (Cost Per Click).

Disadvantages of SEM

As we discussed before that if there is one side of the picture there is also another side it has. 
SEM has some disadvantages as well as it has more advantages.
Now we will see a few disadvantages of SEM here.  

Hight Competition

Even a seller company has to pay for advertising to rank its page but still, there is also high competition as you need to win to rank your site at the top.

Difficult to Manage

SEM system also wants the techniques you have to apply for the betterment of your offering and visibility of products. for this, if you are not an expert at this, you will have to pay a huge amount to experts for this. 

Disposals of Rights with the Rightful owner

As the SEM has paid system, in this, a company or individual pays to rank the pages or websites, due to this a person or a company will disposals of rights they actually deserve. 

Can Create Hight Bounce Rate

In SEM websites ranked not with SEO tools but with SEM by paying and staying at the top of the list, if someone searched for some query and is in hurry, he will enter the paid site and come out quickly then the bounce rate will increase by this. 

Need to be Updated and Specialized Knowledge

In SEM you need to be aware of the current situation, changing the scenario every time. 

Conclusion

We have seen the advantages and disadvantages of SEM. So, now we are able to draw a conclusion considering the advantages and disadvantages of SEM.

The advantages of SEM outweigh the disadvantages.

If an experienced businessman uses better SEM techniques, it will definitely be beneficial, but if not experimentation and non-professionalism get in the way the risk of loss is high.

Now it is up to the businessman to decide how to use SEM.

Move forward with patience, hard work, perseverance, when the time comes you will surely be exalted. Faisal Ayub