Is Your Websites SEO More Important Than Ever?

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to read the whole post you can find it here.

It has long been suggested that ranking highly on search engines can have a massive affect on sales, and if you are to believe the latest statistics that 93% of all buying decisions start with an online search, then your sites SEO can suddenly become very important.

Getting to the top of Google for a keyword of your choice can be a long and arduous task, and now with the introduction of Google Instant this might be slighty harder. But how important is it to be on top of Google? SEO experts would have you believe it's paramount, but there are company's out there who have been very successful with out the aid of SEO. However if there ever was a set of statistics released to wet your appetite or at least encourage you to give SEO a try then a recent study leaked from AOL's search engine logs is the one:

1. 42.25% of all click-through traffic is received by the website ranked first in the search results
2. Second place receives 11.94%
3. Third position obtains 8.47%

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to read the whole post you can find it here.