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How to stop paying for keywords you already rank for

paid-organic-balance a saved expert workflow your assistant follows, in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

The paid×organic interplay read: keywords where you pay for clicks you may already earn organically (wasted-spend candidates), auction coverage you're losing to rank, and your combined share of the whole results page.

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paid organic overlap

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Say any of these

  • paid organic overlap
  • are we wasting spend on keywords we rank for
  • PPC cannibalization
  • paid vs organic balance
  • total search share
  • impression share opportunities
  • where should organic pick up paid's slack

You never name the skill or a tool, the assistant routes on what you asked. These are the phrasings it recognises for this one.

And when it stays out of the way

Not for pure ad-spend efficiency by campaign (Wave-3 paid-efficiency-review, for now, bare tools), for organic-only questions, or for conversion attribution.

Use it instead of market-share-review when paid is in the frame; use market-share-review instead for organic-only standing.

What it runs

  • paid_organic_overlap
  • paid_impression_share
  • total_search_share

3 governed analyses, composed and scoped for you. Named here for transparency, not because you have to ask for them.

The numbers behind it

What it refuses to do

  • Overlap ≠ cannibalization: only a controlled pause test proves incremental waste, the recommendation is always the test, with day-7/14/30 readouts.
  • Combined-page-share numbers stay labeled estimates; paid "clicks" and organic "clicks" are different lenses and never summed silently.
  • PMax/broad-match cautions are cautions, not bans.

What the answer looks like

Skill: Paying for keywords you already rank for? Simulated · illustrative

Are we wasting spend on keywords we rank for?

Analysis plan, every step, resolved for you

  • Routed to the governed workflowpaid-organic-balance
  • Dates bound explicitlyJul 1 to Jul 31, 2026
  • 3 analyses queued in parallelpaid_organic_overlap · paid_impression_share · total_search_share
  • Honesty gates armedscope echo · freshness

One source can't answer this, they join

  • Google Adsspend, bids, paid clicks
  • Google Search Consoleorganic rank, clicks

$6.8K of July spend sits on keywords where you already rank top-3, overlap, not yet proof of waste.

Overlap keywords
38 paying on Google Ads AND ranking organic top-3
Spend on owned terms
$6.8K candidates only, a paid-pause test is the proof
Total SERP footprint
23% organic + paid combined, geometry approximated

Jul 1 to Jul 31, 2026paid + organic

⚠ Observationalas of Aug 2, 2026 (GSC lags 1 to 2 days)IllustrativeOpen in Quattr ↗

Pause-test the top 12 owned terms; keep paying where organic sits below the fold.

A simulated conversation on fictional data. Scope, freshness and the ⚠ Observational marker are attached by the same director that renders every demo here, not written by hand.

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