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Understanding the Correlation Between Ad Extensions and Ad Rank

SmartBug Media

Google Ads are based on search intent, so the keywords you’re competing against take on a crucial role in this section because this directly correlates with your budgeting and positioning strategy. Ad extensions are extra lines of code added to your ad when it's shown in the search engine result pages (SERPs). Related Auctions.

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SERP Analysis Tools For SEO and Ranking? via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

SEO tools analyze top ranked sites and provide correlation-based analysis for SEO. The post SERP Analysis Tools For SEO and Ranking? How useful is the information? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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What Is Domain Authority and Why Is It Important?

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re familiar with SEO, you know that domain authority is key to ranking well on SERPs. Domain authority indicates the likelihood of a website ranking on SERPs , and is calculated by the quality of a website’s backlinks. In fact, research shows that over 70% of SEO experts check their website’s domain rating at least once a month.

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SERP Universal Listing Trends

Brightedge

The SERP landscape is also constantly changing and has evolved dramatically over time. Marketers must be quick to adjust strategies to accommodate both algorithm updates and changes to the SERPs. Because of this, BrightEdge started tracking some of the ways Google is evolving the SERPs. Universal Search methodology.

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How Google SERP Layouts Affect Searching Behavior

Moz

Posted by Stephen_Job There are several studies (and lots of data) out there about how people use Google SERPs, what they ignore, and what they focus on. Two things I have never seen tested are the actual user reactions to and behavior with SERPs. We chose all of the search terms first for ease of correlating data. (If

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Getting Smarter with SERPs - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Modern SERPs require modern understanding. National SERPs are a myth — these days, everything is local. And when we're basing important decisions on SERPs and ranking, using the highest quality data is key. Russ Jones explores the problem with SERPs, data quality, and existing solutions in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.

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Using a New Correlation Model to Predict Future Rankings with Page Authority

Moz

Correlation studies have been a staple of the search engine optimization community for many years. Each time a new study is released, a chorus of naysayers seem to come magically out of the woodwork to remind us of the one thing they remember from high school statistics — that "correlation doesn't mean causation." Posted by rjonesx.