Interesting infographic on SEO salaries, job titles and top 20 cities for SEO jobs. While SEO job opportunities and salaries rise in the obvious “coastal” marketplaces, it’s good to see some midwest and southern markets included here such as Atlanta and Austin. This information can provide you and your business with a good barometer for a potential in-house SEO hire. Though it doesn’t break down exactly the responsibilities for each job title (since many of the responsibilities across each one often overlap) you can at least get a sense for how you want to position your new hire hunt online.

As an additional reference, we’ve listed the job titles below in order of what we believe to be level of expertise and responsibilities, thus compensation:

1. SEO/Search Marketing Director
2. SEO Manager
3. SEO Analyst/Specialist
4. Content/Keyword Strategist + Link Builder
5. Web/SEO Copywriter
6. Other

What do you think of these statistics? Are they inline with what you see in your region of the country? If you’re a small business owner, does this data make you want to hire an in-house SEO professional or outsource to an SEO agency?

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Every year for the past six years (I think), SEOmoz has provided a thoroughly researched data set called “Search Engine Ranking Factors”. The data is gathered through their own research and through surveys from SEOs and others in the online advertising and search marketing fields.

It’s a fantastic resource for SEOs, data junkies, or simply for those interested in how or why search engines show the results they do. This research always provides solid, actionable data, which is hard to find these days, much less for free.

Anyways, the report is released around June of each year, so I’m a tad late with talking about it. Still, the information it contains should be referred to again and again, so I don’t feel so bad.

Enjoy!

SEOmoz’s Search Engine Ranking Factors 2011

It’s been 3 weeks since Google launched it’s search overhaul/“Bing”-ified it, and we’re wondering what you think about it now that you’ve had a chance to really dig in and get some use out of it. We know that Google would not have released something without testing the heck out of it, but there are still bound to be lots you like and lots you don’t like.

If you haven’t noticed the changes or simply haven’t used Google in the last 3 weeks, I’d like to personally welcome you back to Earth from whatever planet you were visiting or congratulate you on finally getting out from under that rock. Either way, here is Google’s lame and vague video of the changes from early May:

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