NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - April 1, 2010) - Conductor, a premier provider of SEO measurement and optimization technology, today released their research study, "Visibility Report: The Anti-Virus Industry." The report is an analysis of the top ten anti-virus software companies' natural search visibility and search traffic acquisition strategies over a one year period. The research finds that the leading anti-virus software companies are struggling to achieve natural search visibility.
Anti-virus search terms account for tens of millions of monthly search queries, with 10 of the most active anti-virus keywords accounting for nearly 13 million monthly searches. This SEO research study revealed the top 10 anti-virus software companies' on average appear in the top 5 natural search positions only 5% of the time for their most competitive industry keywords and only 6% of the time for their individual 1000 most expensive paid search keywords.
The study also reported AVG as the industry search traffic leader, receiving the most search traffic, nearly double the amount of the second place competitor, Symantec. AVG's dominant traffic share is largely due to it receiving the highest percentage of traffic for the search term "free anti-virus." AVG also had the highest average daily paid search spend at $3,403, yet only 6% of their total search visits resulted from paid search.
Key takeaways include:
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10 of the most active anti-virus keywords account for nearly 13 million monthly searches.
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Only 5% of competitive anti-virus industry keywords (keywords at least half the companies were bidding on) appeared in the top 5 natural search results.
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Only 6% of anti-virus companies' 1000 most expensive keywords appeared in the top 5 search results.
To download this report:
http://www.conductor.com/resource-center/research/visibility-report-anti-virus-industry
About Conductor
Conductor is the leading provider of SEO measurement and optimization technology, empowering enterprise marketers to manage and improve their SEO efforts. Conductor Searchlight is a subscription-based, software as a service (SaaS) platform which enables customers to gather competitive data, prioritize and improve their decision making, and accurately measure the ROI of their SEO efforts. Conductor also offers a range of associated professional services to its over 200 Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 clients, a majority of the leading interactive agencies, and some of the world's most prestigious publications. Based in New York City, the company was founded in 2005, and is one of the fastest growing companies in New York.
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