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The Correlation Between Authoritative Links and Ranking [SEO Study]

Moz

Posted by EricEnge Over the past five years, our team at Perficient has conducted continuous studies to evaluate the lasting impact of links on rankings. These studies consistently show that links matter as a ranking factor, but they also show that Google is dialing up their emphasis on the quality/authority of those links.

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Video Marketing Statistics: What You Must Know for 2023

Optinmonster

Now in its ninth edition, the study garnered responses from 528 participants, comprising both professional marketers and consumers. Let’s look at some key video marketing statistics from the research and analyze them for actionable takeaways. Video marketing is ever-evolving, with statistics highlighting its growing significance.

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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."

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The 5 Key 2016 Podcast Statistics

Convince & Convert

Edison first waived the flag on the explosive growth of podcasts in last year’s Infinite Dial study, but their new, 2016 podcast statistics show that momentum is building for the medium. The rise in podcast consumption over the past two years correlates with an even larger shift in HOW podcasts are consumed.

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5 Revealing Content Marketing Statistics From Skyword’s Original Research

Content Standard

Download Skyword’s original research based on a year-long study of nearly 1,000 marketers: bit.ly/InsidetheCMC. This is the issue that drove Skyword to conduct a year-long study of nearly 1,000 content marketers (download the full report here ). InsidetheCMC. Download the 48-page report of original research and analysis: bit.ly/InsidetheCMC.

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To Allow Blog Comments or Not? Here’s What the Data Shows

Optinmonster

What they found about the correlation between blog posts and views/links was fascinating. As you can see, they found that there is no correlation between the number of comments on a post and the number of links that post got. There is also no correlation between the number of comments and the number of views that post got.

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20 Webinar Statistics, Benchmarks and Best Practices to Improve Your Virtual Events

Sword and the Script | B2B

ON24 analyzed data from 100,482 webinars with more than 100 attendees conducted through its platform in 2020 for this study. The report contains some interesting statistics, benchmarks and best practices for comparing or improving webinars and virtual events. It also augmented the findings with a survey of 100 of its customers.