10 stats that prove the value of SEO

Get your links and keywords ready. You’ll want to fire up your search engine optimization tactics after you read this.

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Taking advantage of them is as easy as saying “SEO.” SEO stands for search engine optimization.

As corny as that may sound, optimizing blog posts or pages on your site for search engines can have enormous benefits for the visibility of your company.

If you want people to find your company, don’t hide it underneath the billions of other companies, terms, keywords, etc., that people search. There are 2.9 million searches per minute. That’s 175 million searches every hour, 4 billion every day, and 131 billion per month for you to get lost in.

If you enact proper search engine optimization tactics, you can help your company gain greater prominence in search, and ultimately more customers, fans and followers will visit your site.

I can stress the importance of SEO forever (I have once or twice before), but what better way to convince you of its value than some hard numbers?

Here are 10 statistics that prove SEO is a valuable resource to invest in:

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