How can you:

- easily estimate site’s search engine optimization?
- rate your search engine optimization consultant?
- gauge success of in-house search engine optimization employees?
- evaluate your SEO business?

I am about to share with you 2 expert secrets to track SEO progress quickly.

For a site optimizer, data is the single most effective tool. 3 reasons why:

1. Data defines you as an SEO.
If you don’t work hard with data, neither clients nor the industry will take you seriously.

2. Information says you how well you are doing.
I am all about customer feedback but first thing you got to do is root through your own data to find your SEO strengths and weaknesses.

3. To a customer, data speaks louder than words.
How can a client make sure you are actually getting work done? Information. Will a cheesy “How ya doin” phone call do? Nope. Management wants reports, daily, weekly, monthly… Share your data, and you are halfway there.

If you take data as seriously as I do, and if you mine lots of it, chances are you are already heavily utilizing search engine optimization tools. If not, now is a good time to start and set up a powerful data mining and SEO reporting system for your business.

I am all for automation in my business because the amount of websites I promote today simply doesn’t leave me any other option but to automate.
Plus, with the new generation of breakthrough search engine optimization SEO Reporting tools out there, you can monitor your SEO progress quickly and easy, just like thousands of search engine optimization professionals do across the globe.

Such tools have killer email reporting systems built-in. I use them to set up an annual reporting schedule for each customer and for the entire year the software sends out updated and personalized optimization reports to my clients as a follow-up and directly to your inbox for a quick review.
Not only are SEO application reports convenient but they are also good-looking and full of graphs so the design is one less headache I have to think about.

If you wonder what sorts of metrics are vital for SEO reports, I’ve pinpointed 3:

1. Keyword metrics:
- keyword rankings in targeted SEs
- historic rankings
- expected and current site visits by keyword
- keyword research metrics – competition, search volume etc.

2. Link building information
- Number and quality of client backlinks
- Number and quality of link building partners
- Number and quality of competitor inbound links

3. On site and on page search engine optimization metrics
- Landing page and page element optimization stats
- Keyword density analysis for a keyword niche
- Site structure analisys data

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