2016 has been a great year for SEO and Google evidently, Penguin got updated and RankBrain went live.

Some of the most important points for 2016 SEO were:
- Optimizing for website speed
- Microformats, Microdata and Structure data - in essence, search snippet optimizations
- User engagement content as well as the optimization of your own brand
- Creating content that is satisfying for everyone, the goal of modern SEO is to think out of the box and anticipate user's intent
- Plain old on-page optimization around keywords - despite RankBrain this was still relevant for 2016
- Provide subjects that are closely related together as a suggestion
What SEO trends should we expect for 2017?
I believe is all about ROI in the end and although in the past there was a problem getting an exact number of ROI for SEO, I believe we now have sufficient tools and search engine knowledge to understand and interpret data correctly so we can maximize our SEO ROI to the fullest.
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