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How to Measure SEO ROI So Leadership Actually Believes It

Traffic reports don't impress the board. Here's how to tie your SEO to pipeline and revenue.

The gap between SEO reporting and business reporting is why so many programs get defunded. Impressions and rankings are inputs; your leadership wants pipeline and revenue.

The answer is to track money pages separately from informational content, and to count commercial-keyword traffic toward estimated acquisition value — the metric that actually represents buyers.

Say it in dollars

When your reporting shows buyer traffic, commercial rankings, and estimated pipeline value, SEO stops being a cost center and becomes a growth engine. That's the reporting RankReactorAI generates automatically.