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Optify Benchmark Report: Google Dominates the B2B Search Market and Twitter Outperforms Facebook
SEATTLE, WA, Jan 23, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Optify, the leading innovator in digital marketing software, today
announced the release of its annual B2B Marketing Benchmark Report in
which it was revealed that Google's market share in the B2B segment
increased to 90 percent in 2012. Additionally, Optify's report
uncovered that organic search is still the strongest driver of known
traffic to B2B sites, but shows relatively low conversion rates,
while email shows the highest conversion and engagement rates.
Unlike more traditional market share reports such as the latest from
ComScore, stating a 67% Search Share, Optify's report shows that over
the last year Google has increased its share of the search market to
90 percent in the B2B sector. Bing was revealed as a distant second
with roughly only 5 percent of searches leading to B2B sites.
Google's dominance coupled with the increase in Google's enhanced
privacy setting, which now lists referring keywords from organic
search as "not provided," presents a challenge for B2B marketers and
digital marketing agencies. As search continues to be a primary
source of traffic, this study shows that marketers should build a
diversified strategy, with organic search being only a part of their
efforts.
A summary of the key findings include:
-- Google's share of the search market in the B2B segment in North
America reaches 90%.
-- While companies increase their investment in social media marketing,
social media represented a small fraction of traffic and leads to B2B
websites in 2012, contributing an average of 5% of all traffic and
leads. Within social media, Twitter outperformed Facebook 9-to-1 in
lead generation campaigns.
-- Organic search is the strongest driver of known traffic to B2B sites
with 41% of traffic. Google is responsible for over 35% of all traffic
to B2B websites making it the single most important referring domain
in 2012.
-- Blocked data continues to be an issue as "not provided" exceeds 40% of
all organic visits from Google. Combined with visits from branded
search terms, known keyword data from organic search continues to
drop, leaving marketers with less than 40% of referring keywords.
-- Email still shows high engagement rates with an average 2.9%
conversion rate (well above the 1.6% overall average). This is a trend
that keeps increasing as more B2B marketers leverage email for lead
nurturing as well as lead generation.
Optify's study analyzed over 62 million visits from more than 600 small
and medium-sized B2B websites from January 1, 2012 to December 31,
2012 to determine the percentage of visits and leads from various
sources to B2B websites. The parameters of this study included only
US based .com sites with 100 to 100,000 monthly visits. Channel
analysis included websites with a minimum of 10 visits per traffic
source that month.
"Google has long proven to be the uncontested leader in the search
market, and as our research shows, that authority will only continue
into the foreseeable future," said Doug Wheeler, CMO of Optify. "With
such a clear domination of search, we believe that marketers should
diversify their marketing programs beyond organic search. It will
come as no surprise if Google decides to monetize elements of its
organic search data such as referring keywords, access to analytics
or other, currently free services, leaving marketers no choice but to
adhere to its terms."
Optify's 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report covers the primary
trends for online B2B marketing and shares tips for B2B marketers and
digital marketing agencies on how to handle the growth in Google's
market share and diversify efforts to not completely depend on
Google. To view Optify's infographic and download a free copy of the
report, please visit: http://www.optify.net/2012-benchmark-report.
About Optify
Optify is the leading innovator and award-winning
provider of digital marketing software for B2B marketing
professionals. Our SaaS-based digital marketing suite provides a
simple, complete integrated solution for capturing leads,
prioritizing and nurturing the hottest prospects while instantly
measuring and reporting on the ROI of marketing programs.
Optify offers tailored editions (features and pricing) of our
solution specifically for digital marketing agencies and small/medium
size businesses including Optify Professional, Optify Team and Optify
Complete. For more information on products, pricing or partnership,
please visit us at www.optify.net or call +1 877.2.OPTIFY (+1
877.267.8439). Visit the Optify Lead Generation Blog and follow
Optify on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Contact:
Ali Kramer
Barokas Public Relations
optify@barokas.com
206-264-8220
SOURCE: Optify
mailto:optify@barokas.com
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