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42.3% -- percentage rating seo best channel roi for marketers (2025)
42.3% of marketers rate SEO as delivering the strongest ROI among channels.
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42.3%
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Percentage
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2025
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B
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95
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60
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20
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30
Methodology
45
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95
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CMO Alliance
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https://www.cmoalliance.com/why-measuring-marketing-roi-is-still-so-hard-and-what-actually-works/ ↗
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Why measuring marketing ROI is still so hard (and what actually works)
Every marketing leader has had to justify quarterly or annual spend. And sometimes your answer, no matter how data-backed, doesn’t quite land.
You’re not alone.
Difficulty measuring ROI is one of the top barriers marketing leaders face right now, cited by 40.2% of respondents in the Future of Market…
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CMO Alliance
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Future of Marketing 2025 report survey
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marketers: 42.3% percentage rating seo best channel roi. Source: CMO Alliance (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/seo-roi-perception-2025
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