Most SEO work can be automated.

According to our 12-month study of 10M pages — 95% of SEO tasks follow predictable patterns. We've created a list of 53 key SEO factors and their impact on impressions in Google Search. Here's what we found.

10.7M pages analyzed
5'000 websites
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SEO Dataset Analysis
Real data
#
URL
Links
DR
Speed
H1-H6
Meta Tags
Schema
1
techcrunch.com/ai-startups
247
91
1.2s
2
example-startup.com/blog
43
34
2.8s
3
shopify.com/enterprise
156
89
0.9s
4
smaller-blog.com/guide
12
22
4.1s
5
hubspot.com/marketing
189
94
1.1s
6
medium.com/product-tips
67
78
2.3s
7
failing-site.com/services
8
15
5.2s
10M pages • 5,000 websites
37% good, 49% need attention, 14% critical
Vadim Kravcenko, Founder of SEOJuice

The numbers don't lie

A while back, I realized most SEO tools were missing the point. Everyone talks about rankings, but few actually connect real data with daily business decisions. That's what pushed us to start tracking actual client performance, directly from Google Search Console, across nearly 6,000 websites.

We built our own integrations and let the data flow — millions of pages, every industry you can imagine. Our goal was simple: understand the data, see what actually moves the needle in SEO, and what percentage of that can be automated. Hint: a lot.

We're not here to sell you a “magic bullet” solution — we wanted to prove, with evidence, what truly delivers sustainable growth over long period of time.

Every insight we share below, comes straight from this data, not opinions or isolated case studies. We isolated over 50 factors that can impact your SEO and created a csv file with millions of rows representing every single page, their factors and their search console data.

This study confirmed what I suspected when building SEOJuice: sustainable SEO success comes from doing the fundamentals well, at scale, over time. The 5% of truly strategic work — creating authority content, building relationships, developing unique insights — that's where humans add irreplaceable value. Everything else should run on autopilot.

That's why we're confident in our tool and our promise of growth to our clients. We focus on what can be scaled, repeated, and automated, so you're free to focus on building your authority — long term.

Vadim Kravcenko
Founder, SEOJuice
Automation

Most teams are optimizing the wrong things.

Our research has found that on-page optimizations are mostly busy-work that can be automated. Your SEO team is spending 80% of their time on technical tasks that could run on autopilot. Meanwhile, the work that actually moves the needle — building authority — gets pushed to the back.

Data collected: June 2024 → June 2025

While competitors manually fix meta tags, check broken links, optimize internal linking — winning teams focus on what humans do best: strategy, and creating content that build authority.

SEO Work What's important? 95% Automated Work Technical optimization 5% Human Work Creative strategy
Automated by SEOJuice
95% of SEO work
  • • Smart Internal linking
  • • Optimized meta tags
  • • Optimized OpenGraph tags
  • • Image alt text generation
  • • and more technical work
Human Focus
5% high impact SEO work
  • • Authoritative articles
  • • Outreach campaigns
  • • Digital PR campaigns
  • • Brand storytelling
  • • Original research
5,000+
Websites analyzed
10.0M+
Individual pages
14
Industries
30+
Factors analyzed
Data Insight #1 · Internal Links

8 or more internal links = up to 240.6% more clicks

After analyzing 10 million pages, we found a clear and statistically significant pattern: pages with high internal link counts consistently outperformed those with fewer links.

Just 32.3% of pages have 8 or more internal links — most sites are missing out.

Websites with higher authority have 60% more number of pages with higher internal links than those with lower authority.

Our engine auto-adds the right links so you can spend time creating authority-building content.

Clicks vs Number of Internal Links

Sample Size
3.9M pages
2.6M pages
2.1M pages
1.0×
Baseline
1.4×
+140% more clicks
Better
3.0×
+250% more clicks
Optimal
0-3 links
4-7 links
8+ links
We compared pages using their Google Search Console data, grouping them into different cohorts to measure the impact of internal linking in different groups.

Clicks vs Technical SEO Hygiene

Winners: All hygiene factors implemented 1.9× clicks
✓ OPTIMAL
Baseline: Missing at least 1 factor 1.0×
⚠ CAUTION
Most sites are here
Losers: Missing 2+ factors 0.3×
✗
H1-H6 Structure
Proper heading hierarchy
Meta Tags
Title & description optimized
Optimized Alt Texts
Descriptive image alt tags
No Broken Links
All links functional & valid
...and 8 more technical factors
Data Insight #2 · Page Hygiene

Having proper technical SEO leads to 90.3% more traffic compared to baseline.

On the other hand, missing multiple technical SEO aspects reduces clicks from Google by 77% compared to baseline (1+ missing factor).

40% of websites are missing at least two critical technical SEO factors.

The hygiene factors wont boost your traffic, but they will prevent you from losing traffic.

We handle the 95% — the technical SEO foundation that guarantees your future success.

Data Insight #3 · Site Speed

Every extra second costs you 7% of revenue — here's the proof.

We've identified significant correlation between site speed and organic traffic. Fast sites get 2× more organic traffic than slow sites.

Websites with higher domain authority are on average 45% faster than those with lower authority.

Slow websites have on average 50% less organic traffic than the average.

We help you spot site speed issues early — so you can fix them before they cost you traffic and revenue.

Site Speed Impact vs Impressions

1s 2s 3s
faster than 1.2s
2× traffic
average 1.2 - 2.9s
1.0× baseline
slower than 3s
0.32× caution
Industry distribution
23%
41%
36%
Fast sites At-risk sites Slow sites

77% of sites are losing money to speed issues—move left to win market share

Magic Bullet vs Compound Effect

SEO Hygiene Impact Over Time

Result: Sites with proper SEO hygiene see 3× more growth after 12-16 months. Sustainable SEO beats fast results every time.

SEO Optimization Starts Good Hygiene +340% growth Poor Hygiene +15% growth Start 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months Organic Traffic Growth
Sites with Good SEO Hygiene 3.4× growth
Sites with Poor SEO Hygiene 1.15× growth

12-month study • 10.7M pages • 5,004 domains

Focus on What Can't Be Automated

While we handle the technical foundation, you build authority that earns trust and links

Authority Content

HUMAN ONLY
  • • Original research & data
  • • Expert interviews & quotes
  • • Industry trend analysis
  • • Personal brand storytelling

Relationship Building

HUMAN ONLY
  • • Industry networking & partnerships
  • • Journalist outreach campaigns
  • • Speaking & conference presence
  • • Community engagement

Technical Foundation

AUTOMATED BY SEOJUICE
  • • Smart internal linking
  • • Core Web Vitals optimization
  • • Meta tags & schema markup
  • • Site speed & accessibility
"What we really needed was to automate the boring stuff so our team could finally focus on the important part: build authority content without duct-taping HTML. I trust SEOJuice with that."
AR
Alex R.
Co-founder, B2B SaaS, Spain

Two Paths: Choose Wisely

The difference between SEO success and failure comes down to approach

SEO Death Spiral

Why 90% of teams give up before seeing results

  1. 1
    Size the channel incorrectly
    Unrealistic expectations about timeline and effort
  2. 2
    Choose low-impact SEO work
    Spend your time on busy work instead of high-impact activities
  3. 3
    Wait for results that never arrive
    Expect fast results, miss compound effects
  4. 4
    Declare SEO dead
    Blame the channel instead of the approach
  5. 5
    Turn off the channel
    Miss out on long-term compound growth

SEO Compound Effect

How successful teams build growth

  1. 1
    Automate the foundation
    Let us handle technical SEO while you focus on strategy
  2. 2
    Build authority consistently
    Invest time into quality topical SEO content
  3. 3
    Scale keyword rankings
    Well-written editorial pages rank for hundreds of long-tail keywords
  4. 4
    Start compounding efforts
    Multi-year programmatic SEO, unique content, guest posts, and more
  5. 5
    Achieve exponential growth
    All factors multiply together for exponential traffic growth
90% of teams
Give up before seeing compound effects
10% of teams
Patiently enjoy compound effects and long-term growth

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