Most SEOs Use Few SEO Tools & Don't Spend Much On Them

Nov 4, 2020 - 7:57 am 8 by
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Aleyda Solis posted a set of polls on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO software and tools usage. In short, it seems like most SEOs use two to four tools and spend under $13,000 annually on those tools. I suspect most of those spend a heck of a lot less than $13,000.

The first question was what is your annual total budget for SEO tools:

The second question was how many paid SEO tools do you use:

Keep in mind, a lot of SEOs I know also build their own tools. But there are so many advanced and useful paid tools out there, so I am a bit surprised by the responses to these polls.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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