SEMPO Talks State of Search Engine Marketing

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) has shared the results of Its annual Statement of the Search Marketing Report. WebProNews talked about the findings with departing president of SEMPO Sara Holoubek at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York (more exclusive interviews of the conference can be viewed here).

Holoubek tell us that they had a record number of demanded this year. &Quot; almost 1,500 people from across the globe in 68 countries answered the inspection, she says.

The estimations of report that the North American search engine marketing industry will grow 14% of $14.6 billion in 2009 to $16.6 billion by the end of 2010.

The report also indicates that measuring ROI is the biggest challenge facing dealers this year in every three key search tactics covered in the survey - CATHEDRAL, the full search, and social media marketing. Additional findings include:

- Around half the companies (49%) assign of NEW budgets to search engine marketing from print advertising. More than a third (36%) change money away from direct mail, and almost a quarter are moving the budgets of conferences and exhibitions (24%) and web display advertising (23%).

- The research highlights Google’ domination of s as a search engine, with 97% of companies paying to advertise on Google AdWords. Nearly three fourth of companies (71%) pay to advertise on the Google search network while 56% use the Google the network pleases (keyword concentrated on) .

- More than half of advertisers (56%) and agencies (62%) say that The keywords of Google have come they be more expensive over the last year. Meanwhile, only around a third of advertisers noted an increase in Yahoo (32%) and (**). the developments of tendencies and market, the company Bing (29%) keyword costs.

- From a range of search results personalization is respondents are most likely to say the significant, "and a still more 44% having an impact. Just under a third of companies (31%) say this is "highly local search" was the more say it is "significant." Agency respondents felt the "rise of as conclusions of SEMPOs “ significant."

suggest significant emerging trend with 38% saying this was "highly significant" with 47% labeling while still modest in the comparison tha the rise of social media budgets, for dealers of search in 2010. to EO and paid search, represent the "biggest opportunity" for search marketers in 2010.

Conversions Rely on Usability of Both Search Engines and Your Site

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