“Organic search” is a term used for results or listings that appear organically on a search engine result page and that are not paid for.

Apparently, some businesses run paid or pay-per-click campaigns that make their websites appear above the search listings; these lists in the search results are called paid search results or search engine ads. Both organic search results and paid research results work differently and, to some extent, serve different purposes for the marketer.

What is Organic Search?

It is the SEO strategies, applied by a business, that get their website appear on the SERP organically or naturally. The better you optimize your pages, the higher they appear in search results.

Search engines, like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and others, use complex algorithms to list websites in search results on the basis of a few factors. For example:

• How relevant is a website or page for the user’s search query?
• What value does the page offer to the user? Does the page offer any resolution to the user’s query?
• Does a page have high-quality backlinks? What is the domain authority of the page?

Of these, the most important factor is relevance. If the bots or crawlers sent by the search engine sense that your website is relevant to the user’s search query, it will show up in the organic search listings. You technically don’t pay a penny to the search engine for getting a rank or position on the SERP, or search engine result page.