11 Ways to Urge Traffic to Your Website with SEO
Search engine optimization, short form of (SEO) is the operation of getting traffic from the different search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo. Nine times out of ten, consumers turn to search engines when making purchasing decisions. Even if all your new business comes from referrals and word of mouth, those referrals will seek you out online. To be found online easily by your target audience, SEO needs to be utilized.
Consider these Statistics
- 93% of consumers use search engines for purchase decisions (Search Engine Journal).
- 71% of business purchase decisions are started with a search engine (Brafton).
- 70% of users click on organic results (Search Engine Journal).
- 53% of organic search clicks go to the first link (Search Engine Journal 2012).
- 75% of users never click past the first page (Hubspot).
- SEO leads have a 14.6% close rate, while print or direct mail ads have 1.7% (8.5 times more) (Search Engine Journal).