SEO Spending on the Rise

A number of articles recently regarding the increases attention on SEO.  eMarketer reports today that SEO spend is the fastest growing category of search spend:

eMarketer Search Spend

eMarketer Search Spending

SEO has become increasingly sophisticated, moving beyond the traditional small consulting shops to robust technology platforms that can bring scale and automating to the process as well.

Liz Gannes has a nice piece in BusinessWeek on the trends as well.