Slingshot Study Shows Google SERP Superiority

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Recently, Slingshot SEO conducted a study on user behavior in an attempt to determine the impact of page-one search engine rankings on organic click-through rates (CTRs). The results of said study were released in a white paper entitled “A Tale of Two Studies: Establishing Google & Bing Click-Through Rates.”
As the title indicates, the primary purpose of the … Continue reading “Slingshot Study Shows Google SERP Superiority”

Driving Offline Sales with Generic Keywords

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What drives more in-store sales – branded keywords or generic keywords? According to a 13-month long study from search marketing agency GroupM (part of the WPP group), 86 percent of buyers who purchase in-store use generic terms on search engines to inform their purchase decision.
“The Web is influencing more than $1 trillion of in-store sales, … Continue reading “Driving Offline Sales with Generic Keywords”

SEO & SEM Keywords (Definitions in Search Engine Optimization)

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Below is a list of search engine optimization and marketing industry related keywords with their definitions.
Algorithm
Algorithmic Results
Alt Tag/Alt Text
Analytics
Anchor Text
Backlinks
Banned
Banner Ad
Black Hat SEO
Blacklisted
Broken Link
Click Fraud
Click-Through
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Cloaking
Contextual Link Inventory (CLI)
Conversion
Conversion Analytics
Conversion Rate
Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA)
Cost-Per-Action (CPA)
Cost-Per-Click (CPC)
Cost-Per-Thousand (CPM)
Crawler
Delisted
Description Tag
Directory
Doorway Page
Dynamic Content
Flash Optimization
Gateway Page
Geographical Targeting
Geographic Segmentation
Google AdSense
Google AdWords
Graphical Search Inventory (GSI)
Gray Hat SEO
Hidden Text
Hit
HTML
Hyperlink
Index
Inbound Links
Impression
Internet Marketing Consultant
Internet Promotion
Keyword
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Google Sitelinks Expanded, But Improved?

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Google dropped a relative whopper on the search engine community today, launching several “improvements” to the way Sitelinks are organized/presented in search results.

Sitelinks were first launched on Google five years ago as a single row of just four links. Sitelinks have been useful to Google users as they are able to navigate more quickly to … Continue reading “Google Sitelinks Expanded, But Improved?”