How To Prove SEO Worth

HOW TO PROVE SEO WORTH TO YOUR CLIENTS Although you and I know the worth of SEO and how it can impact a business in a big way, the same can't always be said for your clients. They either don't understand it, feel intimidated by it, or think they're doing just fine without it. The truth is, all businesses need an effective SEO strategy. Why not prove that to your clients with some of these unarguable stats? ++CA SEARCH ENGINE STATSO 93% of experiences based online start with a search engine 2.9 million searches are made each minute 175 million searches are made each hour 4 billion searches are made each day More than 100 billion searches are conducted every month all over the world. 131 billion searches per month to be exact $16 billion is the estimated worth of the search engine industry Google 65-70% of the search engine market share belongs to Google THE WAY PEOPLE SEARCH 75% (97%) of'users don't bother looking past the first results page 61% of consumers use the internet to research a local product or of global internet users research products online service RGANIC SEARCH TRAFFIC 70% of links that get a click are organic 80% Up to 80% of users ignore paid ads and focus on organic results Google * On Google, 18% of organic clicks go to the 1st position 10% of clicks go to the 2nd position 7% of clicks go to the 3rd position 23%O Only 23% of users click on PPC ads MOBILE SEARCH 61% 50% of local mobile 48% searches end of mobile searches in a purchase are looking to find local results of users say that if a mobile site isn't working well when they arive, they assume the business doesn't care ***** RESULTS OF SEO 85% of companies took just 7 months to increase traffic with inbound marketing 92% of companies said inbound marketing helped to increase their traffic Search drives traffic to sites 300% more than social media 32% of consumers will be more likely to contact a business with a website 72% of business owners with an SEO 88% of consumers strategy said it improved thei bottom line trust online reviews 97% more inbound links are enjoyed by companies who have a blog 90% of small business have invested money in online marketing SEO could give you up to a 750% ROI after just 18 months FATJOE. fatjoe.co Sources: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/24-eye-popping-seo-statistics/42565/ http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34209/93-of-Companies-Using-Inbound-Marketing- Increase-Lead-Generation New ROI-Data.aspx http://www.ragan.com/Tomorrow/Articles/10_stats_that_prove_the_value_of_SEO_45516.aspx http://www.brightlocal.com/2014/07/1S/9-essential-stats-convincing-smbs-invest-local-search/ http://www.leverable.com/provtng seo-is-worth-it/ http://www.business2community.com/seo/7-seo-stats-will-crawling-excitement-infographic-01000157 http://zerogravitymarketing.com/seo-statistics/