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Google’s controversial encrypted-search feature has had a chilling effect on B2B publishers’ ability to track organic search referral terms,

Encrypted search queries, which are enabled when a user signs into a Google account, now account for almost 40% of referring traffic data to B2B sites

“Eventually you’re not going to be able to measure SEO performance by keyword or understand the impact of organic search on your website traffic, engagement or conversions.”

Only 18% of clicks on Google search results go to paid results Less than 1% of clicks on Twitter.com go to paid results The best Facebook ads get less than 10% CTR (in fact the average is .05%) Etc, etc, etc.

Organic digital traffic (search, blog, links, etc) counts for 90% or more, with $5 billion of investment. While paid (affiliate, ppc, display, etc) sends the remaining 10% of traffic but gets 800% more budget at $45 billion.

1. Create A Content Strategy Not A Blog To develop a content strategy, make sure you have great answers to these questions: Are you going to be able to attract the right people? Why will they care about you? What are you doing to earn their interest? Why are thy going to share? Will they like and trust you more?