I'll end this introduction with the standard disclaimer about ranking factors – correlation does not necessarily mean causation. The more check-ins a place had built over time, the higher the correlation to stronger rankings.
Eighty-four percent of 700 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals believe there is a correlation between an influencer’s reach and their ability to drive action, according to the study.
In our research, we've discovered an interesting correlation: the more external links on a page, the more inbound links it tends to attract. Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.example.com/, We received a request from a site owner to...
Mistaking Correlation for Causation GigaOm's Om Malik recently wrote a great post about how data without soul is meaningless. Essentially, in a world where everything is quantified to the n-th degree, being solely dependent on numbers often...
At least a rough correlation between the time/resources put into a project and the results of the project will help keep your marketing efforts on track. Eight Meetup groups of marketing professionals from the New York area plan to attend the SES...
The question that kept bugging me was if there’s a correlation between a price of a product or service and their CPC? A few months ago I wrote about the death of paid search and had to sustain the backlash of the paid search community through 38...
Crazier still is that the correlation is only with respect to positive mentions, the correlation did not hold up between negative brand mentions falling stock prices. A recent BazaarVoice study –one that analyzed conversations across 26 million...
Understanding the correlation between social sharing of your pages and rank for these pages should form part of your 2013 future proof planning. 2012 saw plenty of change in the SEO industry. The search algorithms have changed, the SERP results...
Note that correlation doesn't imply causality, but at least you know which page to start looking at to try to figure out what's going on. Google Analytics provides powerful but under-advertised features for grouping your visitors into buckets based...
In correlation, the public is actually for the term “shooting apps” approximately 140 times per month, and search engine results have increased to 276 million in December from only 167 million in November:
Correlate Tweets with rank – where you see a positive correlation reinforce Twitter activity. 2012 has been a year of rapid change. The markets have changed, the search algorithms have changed, the SERP results have changed, and how we define what...
The social signals are still in their infancy and there is no exact study yet that clearly shows a true correlation of the social signals without being merged with the link signal. It all starts with Google, doesn’t it?
The research found some distinct correlation between ad clicks and sales as well. Search volume can predict smartphone sales with over 90 percent accuracy, according to a new study from Google. Google's "Smartphone Launch Predictor" study found...
There is a very strong correlation between social shares and links. It is well known that Google doesn't use PageRank as a direct determinant of link value, but it remains convenient and available as a metric, so it's only natural that people...
Monetate found no correlation between e-commerce site traffic market share and the percentage of mobile users, though. Mobile devices captured nearly 20 percent of all online shopping in Q3 2012, which bodes incredibly well for online retailers...
Once these metrics were computed, we looked at the correlation between each of the happiness metrics and conversion rate. Correlation between bounce rate and conversion rate. Correlation between conversion rate and number of page views on the site...
Whilst currently it is in "black box" mode Zelenko shared some insight into its inner workings, "The common misconception is that that there is a strong correlation between time on site and page views per users, when actually they is a lot of...
Social is such a strong correlation towards search rankings – as the factors above show – and when assessing the value of content, Google cannot ignore this. Both content marketing and authorship are extremely important.
Note: I know there is no such word as "keyness" but by the "keyness factor" I mean the the correlation, relevance, and the essence of the content rather than the actual word to word keyword mapping. If we focus on the keyness factor and try to...
Facebook makes attempts to convince India to employ the use of Facebook PPC, and this provides a reasonable correlation to the first paragraph. When it comes to stocks and the investment market I am also no expert, but it seems as though there is a...
