Keep the following statistics in mind when looking at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your business:
- Content marketing rocks. Marketing Sherpa reports distribution lead to a 2,000% increase in blog traffic and a 40% increase in revenue.
- 70% of the links search users click on are organic.
- 70-80% of users ignore the paid ads, focusing on the organic results.
- 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results.
- GroupM states “when consumers were exposed to both search and social media influenced by a brand that overall search CTR went up by 94 percent.”
- Search and e-mail are the top two internet activities.
- Companies that blog have 434% more indexed pages. And companies with more indexed pages get far more leads.
- Inbound leads cost 61% lower than outbound leads. An example of an inbound lead might be from search engine optimization. An outbound lead might be from a cold call.
- 81% of businesses consider their blogs to be an important asset to their businesses.
- A study by Outbrain shows that search is the #1 driver of traffic to content sites, beating social media by more than 300%
- SEO leads have a 14.6% close rate, while outbound leads (such as direct mail or print advertising) have a 1.7% close rate.
- For Google, a study from Slingshot SEO shows 18% of organic clicks go to the #1 position, 10% of organic clicks go to the #2 position, and 7% of organic clicks go to the #3 position.
- In that same study, tests for Bing show the following: 9.7% of organic clicks go to #1, 5.5% of organic clicks go to #2, and 2.7% of organic clicks go to #3.
- 79% of search engine users say they always/frequently click on the natural search results. In contrast, 80% of search engine users say they occasionally/rarely/never click on the sponsored search results.
- Google owns 65-70% of the search engine market share.
- 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine.
- MarketingCharts reports that over 39% of customers come from search
- The search engine industry is estimated to be worth more than $16 billion.
- There are over 100 billion global searches being conducted each month.
- 88.1% of US internet users ages 14+ will browse or research products online in 2012.
- Search directly drove 25% of all online U.S. device purchases in 2010.
- 82.6% of internet users use search.
- Mobile internet users will reach 113.9 million in 2012, up from 97.3 million in 2011.
- Mobile shoppers will reach 72.8 million in 2012
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