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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Matthias Blume, San Diego, CA (US);
Raul Navarro-cantu, San Diego, CA (US);
Craig Macdonald, Encinitas, CA (US);
Dema Zlotin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Russ Mann, Temecula, CA (US);
Matthias Blume, San Diego, CA (US);
Raul Navarro-Cantu, San Diego, CA (US);
Craig Macdonald, Encinitas, CA (US);
Dema Zlotin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Russ Mann, Temecula, CA (US);
Covario, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is a computer-implementable methodology for quantitatively assessing the impact of paid search advertising on the total visits (paid and organic search-based visits) from search engines and utilizing this assessment to improve search engine marketing performance. The methodology relies on the computation of a synergy score for each search engine keyword of interest or coefficients in a synergy equation. Once computed, the score can be used to repeatedly compute the total return on advertising spend (ROAS) and other performance metrics on a go-forward basis without the time lag inherent in computing the synergy score itself. The invention includes specific computer-implementable methods for improving search engine marketing performance based on the total (paid plus organic) performance metrics.