How do you measure your SEO success?

[3dmagicaldesigns]

Each SEO professional has his/her own strategy to get and keep clients on top of the market, whether he/she works independent or for a company.

However, it seems like some SEO Experts become more "successful" than others, maybe for their reputation as professional or simply the company they work for. That's why I have always asked myself about what really makes an SEO expert "successful":

Is it the top positions obtained?
Is it the top quality links obtained?
Is it the Google PR obtained?

There is no doubt these facts can tell us something about who has been working in SEO strategies, however the people who hire SEO may have another way to "Measure" the success such as a fast investment Return. What I try to say is that the person who hires SEO may not be interested in the work done and only wants to focus in determine how many contacts, sales or reservations his/her website has done during the SEO strategy.

In your case: How do you measure your SEO Success?

[earnest]

What is the position of th esite in SEs?
Is there enough traffic?
Is the traffic targeted and do the visitors find what they had been looking for?

[3dmagicaldesigns]

That's a good point, I've always said thought that as many SEO strategies you use the better you will do with your SEO work

[loosapphire]

I don't really know too much what others think about SEO success. OK just talk my point of view. I focus on the top positions obtained. In another word, for me the only criteria is that how many traffic bring to me, and how many business finally lead by those traffic.

[bobchrist]

Most people wish they should achieve consistent top position in search engine.

[Jasoncreja]

By getting high page rank,by getting traffic for website,by getting on top in search engine...

[granite4less]

you can measure your SEO success by checking three result 1.page rank 2. keyword ranking 3.online conversion

[Gemma Shaw]

In my point of view the SEO success is based on

1)Your Keyword Search Engine results position (SERP)
2)Page Rank - to understand the popularity of your website
3)Incoming traffic - Main purpose of SEO is to get traffic, once achieved yeah for sure your in success

[Tubby]

for me it is the quality of visitors. I really do need visitors that are looking for precisely what I am offering. . I have no great need for boundless numbers of passing through traffic.

The wrong traffic never clicks on what I want them to click on. They never fill out a form the way I want them to fill out the form, they never want to buy the things the items selling on the page . They should be somewhere else. I want them somewhere else...

[3dmagicaldesigns]

for me it is the quality of visitors. I really do need visitors that are looking for precisely what I am offering. . I have no great need for boundless numbers of passing through traffic.

The wrong traffic never clicks on what I want them to click on. They never fill out a form the way I want them to fill out the form, they never want to buy the things the items selling on the page . They should be somewhere else. I want them somewhere else...

Your point is really interesting and I totally agree, what are you traffic sources? direct traffic, search engines, ppc campaigns?