UC-09 Monthly PPC analystSEO lead
Paid and organic balance
The ads budget review is Thursday. You want to know which terms you are buying that you already rank for, and what that costs.
What you'd type
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Are we paying for keywords we already rank for? -
Where do paid and organic overlap? -
What does our paid spend buy that organic does not?
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What comes back
Are we paying for keywords we already rank for?
Analysis plan, every step, resolved for you
- Routed to the governed workflow
paid-organic-balance - Dates bound explicitly
Jul 1 to Jul 31, 2026 - 1 analysis queued
paid_organic_overlap - Honesty gates armed
scope echo · freshness
One source can't answer this, they join
- Google Adsspend and paid clicks
- Search Consoleorganic position
Paid spend on terms already ranking top-3joined on the search term
| Search term | Paid cost | Organic position | Paid clicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| acme workspace | $4,820 | 1.2 | 1,140 |
| acme intranet pricing | $3,110 | 2.4 | 690 |
| acme knowledge base | $2,290 | 2.9 | 515 |
| acme directory app | $1,640 | 1.8 | 402 |
Jul 1 to Jul 31, 2026
⚠ Observationalas of Aug 1, 2026 (Google Ads loads ~1 day behind)IllustrativeOpen in Quattr ↗
$11,860 of July spend sits on terms already ranking top-three. Worth a pause test on the two brand-adjacent ones, the overlap alone does not prove the spend is wasted.
A simulated conversation on fictional data. Scope, freshness and the ⚠ Observational marker are attached by the same director that renders every demo on this site.
Why overlap is not proof of waste
Ranking organically and bidding on the same term is an observation, not a verdict, holding both positions can be deliberate. Proving the paid spend is redundant needs a controlled pause test, which this does not run and does not claim to.
What's behind it
Analyses it runs
paid_organic_overlappaid_search_overviewpaid_organic_performance_comparison
Sources it reads
The skills that own this
- Paying for keywords you already rank for? Paid · 3 analyses
- Spend, CPC, and what it buys. Paid · 2 analyses
The dashboard rituals it replaces
- Organic vs paid share 9 steps · 4 menus · 1 source toggle
- Paid query losses 9 steps · 4 menus · 2 exclusions
Going deeper
- Stop paying for keywords you already rank for 5 min
- L8 · Paid/organic interplay, the keyword-level lever most SEO methods lack 3 min
- The tiered paid/organic operating policy 3 min
