#brightonseo 2014 - think eyes... not just keywords
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Think Eyes, Not Just Keywords. An eye tracking study of where users look on components of search listings. Conducted by Adrian Durow at The ConversionArium, and Southampton Solent University.TRANSCRIPT
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Think Eyes.
Not Just Keywords.
Adrian Durow,
The ConversionArium
@adriandurow
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Attention
Interest
Desire
Action
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Methodology
Eye tracking hardware
10 participants
3 hypotheses
6 tasks / key phrases
SEO-related and non-SEO-related tasks
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Hypothesis One
Domains get more attention than other elements of a standard search listing
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Domains dominating
gazeplots for “content marketing
agency”
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76%
34%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
% of domains viewed
“turkey holidays”
“content marketing agency”
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How powerful is this?
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Hypothesis Two
Search listings with authorship markup, are more powerful in attracting attention
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65%
…of listings with authorship markup were viewed for “mobile site or responsive design?”
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50%
…of listings with authorship markup were
viewed for “which colour car is best?”
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Authorship listing viewings made up 59% of total
listing viewings for “mobile site or responsive design?”
Authorship listing viewings made up 14% of total
listing viewings for “which car colour is best?”
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Hypothesis Three
Search listings with keywords at the start of the listing title, get more attention than those with
keywords in the middle or end of the listing title.
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60% of search listings with searched keywords at
the start of the title were viewed for “SEO software”.
43% of search listings with searched keywords at the
start of the title were viewed for “cheap tvs”.
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"cheap tvs" "SEO software"
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Hypothesis Summary
1. Domains = accepted (SEO / digital marketing keywords)
2. Authorship = accepted, but not as powerful as expected
3. Keywords in start of title = accepted
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Other Interesting Stuff
“Award winning” / “world class” got attention
Review language got attention
Numbers in titles got attention
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Future work
Cross analyse click data
More SERP component testing
A model for optimal CTRs?