SEO Versus PPC: Where's Your Budget Going in 2011?

28 percent of the biggest companies recently surveyed by (those with revenues exceeding $1 billion per year) in a recent survey apparently do not think search engine optimization is all that important. The firms report spending nothing on SEO.


An eConsultancy survey asked for information on company budgets for search engine optimization. About nine percent reported spending nothing on SEO. Some 43 percent spent up to $25,000. About 18 percent spent between $25,000 and $75,000.

Another 13 percent spent $75,001 - $150,000. Some 16 percent of respondents said they spent $150,001 to more than $3 million on search engine optimization in 2009.

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