SEO Strategy Trends

Occupy SEO!  This infographic discusses some of the trends in SEO strategy.

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Some of the trending topics include:

• Users choose organic search results over paid results 94 percent of the time.
• The foundation of good SEO has not changed:  content, linking, and site architecture.
• New additions to the SEO arsenal include social media, user engagement, and thoughtful analysis.
• Social media is accounting for an ever-larger portion of attention from SEO experts, with 91 percent stating that website traffic improves with social media marketing and 79 percent believing social media generates quality leads.
• Social media reaches 80 percent of the population.
• Facebook and Twitter are still the two most popular platforms for social marketing.
• 93 percent of marketers use tools like Google Analytics to dissect website traffic patterns and user actions.
• In the analytics arena, 57 percent of SEO experts use conversion tracking, 41 percent use A/B or multivariate testing, and 24 percent use multi-channel attribution.
•  SEO marketing will account for $600 billion in spending by 2016.
• The advent of Panda and Penguin algorithms mean that old-style SEO is no longer viable.
• SEO marketers must stand up for the value of their work.