Search Engine Optimization and its Efficiency in Comparison with Pay-per-Click Advertising

The thesis is dealing with information technologies with an emphasis on the Internet, Internet marketing and its special regions of SEO, SEM and PPC, which mutual comparison makes the focal point of my work. The theoretical part is a successive analysis of the influences of the Internet marketing, SEM and SEO. Then, it states and explains the particular items the optimization of searchers is based upon. The following parts contain the analysis and questionnaires that are related to the region of the searchers. The theoretical part is concluded with an explanation of the principle of the PPC advertising systems and gives a description of the two most widely used ones -- Sklik and AdWords. The practical part starts with an application of the particular theoretical knowledge on the real examples of some websites. This is followed by two practical examples of websites (a standard one and an e-shop) that draw comparison between the PPC advertising and optimization of searchers. The evaluation at the end of the thesis shows the conditions worth using SEO, and, on the contrary, the cases when using of the PPC advertising campaigns would be more preferable. The desired outcome of my thesis would be to help assess the conditions when the right and quality SEO application is or is not the right choice among the other brands of Internet marketing; and give an example of how cheaper (or more expensive) than the PPC advertising campaigns the optimization could be