2010 Industry survey results, infographic & surprising trends

Earlier in this year we to our SEO industry survey asked the community. We had originally hoped at least 3,000 answers received and were blown away completely when more than 10,000 people attend the interview ended! Of course, it hurts never to one iPad as the Grand Prize to be but I am still very excited about the extent of this report. As a comparison, another excellent survey in our industry generated this year eConsultancy and SEMPO ~ 1,500 answers (results are detailed in this SELand article).

Our survey's objective was to collect information about SEO in 2010 and share it publicly. we questions around:

Who are the people in the SEO community? as you learn more about SEO and sharpen your skills?How are companies comprehensive search marketing?What tools and tactics make people in the industry use to support your SEO and social media efforts?

After from distilled detailed, we are pleased that the results from the data present some number crunching by our good friend Will Critchlow.

Some of the cool things you will see are:

What percentage of SEOs say buy links report spam and how many overlap?Salary ranges in each country, experience levels and job DescriptionsDemographics the Ratioand SEO - we may our male/female have to work much more - just go read it!

We have also a chic infographic to visualize, created survey results:

For those who like to deeply deepen more data, and extract new information from the 10 k + apply views, we have made available the full data dump in CSV format: download here .we would like interesting unique analysis information, and we hope, is it useful, these organizations and companies looking to learn more about the SEO market.

We must not forget to mention the people, gifts for participating in the survey winner notice gewonnen.Die back in June, and have all their Preise.Hier are the winners:

Grand prix: 32 GB Wi Fi iPad:
Sam Ilowitz

First prize: 1 20 min flip MINO HDCamera with custom SEOmoz artwork:
Jared Reed
Jay ESTIS
J. Smeekens

Second Prize:$35 Gift certificates to the SEOmoz Zazzle Store:
Gareth Allen
Jody Lonergan
Anton Korzhuk
Jason Tan
Robert Palmer
Sébastien Mégraud
Lindsay Copeland
Joakim Eriksson
Nicholas foo
Brian Hutchison

It has a huge pleasure and honor to be part of such a powerful and growing industry and this survey highlights the depth the width and the uniqueness of those SEO to, professionally tun.Vielen you so much for participating - we hope this will make a two-year (or maybe even annual) tradition.

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