SEO Statistics 2019

SEO STATISTICS 2019 – See how it impacts your website ranking perfomance.

• Google currently accounts for over 79% of all global desktop search traffic, followed by Bing at 7.27%, Baidu at 6.55% and Yahoo at 5.06%
• Google receives over 63,000 searches per second on any given day
• 50% of search queries are four words or longer
• More Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the U.S. and Japan
• High-quality content and link building are the two most important signals used by Google to rank your website for search
• The average first-page result on Google contains 1,890 words
• Long-form content of over 1,000 words consistently receives more shares and links than shorter form content
• 82% report the effectiveness of SEO is on the rise and 42% state effectiveness is increasing significantly
• 61% of marketers say improving SEO and growing their organic presence is their top inbound marketing priority
• Google “near me” searches have increased by two times over the past year
• 72% of consumers who did a local search visited a store within five miles
• 30% of mobile searches are related to a location
• Updating and republishing old blog posts with new content and images can increase organic traffic by as much as 111%
• Links are one of the top Google ranking factors, but Google has said that social media shares don’t count as individual links
• The average firm is expected to allocate 41% of their marketing budget to online, and this rate is expected to grow to 45% by 2020