MarketScan Airline Industry Scorecard Shows Travel Aggregators Orbitz, Expedia, CheapTickets, Travelocity, Priceline, Fly Rings Around Major U.S. Airlines
Top five search engine marketing programs focus on pay per click campaigns.
Novato, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2005 -- Travel Aggregators continue to fly rings around the major US airlines when it comes to Search Engine Marketing. The top five highest rated travel programs and seven of the top ten (based on MarketScan Airline Industry Scoring) are aggregators. The dominance is particularly pronounced in PPC ratings – where the top seven programs are aggregators. Among airlines, Continental got the highest rating – on the strength of its SEO program. United was number two – scoring well on organic and respectably in terms of PPC. Delta, Southwest, Northwest, American and America West followed.
Specifically, the industry top 15 list includes:
Orbitz
Expedia
CheapTickets
Travelocity
Priceline
Continental
United
TravelZoo
Delta
Hotwire
Southwest
NWA
American
Sidestep
AmericaWest
Ratings (shown in the attachment) are based on MarketScan evaluation. MarketScan generates a list of top search terms in an industry (sample terms – from more than 1000 evaluated – include: Travel Planning, Travel, Online Air Travel, Book Travel Online, Travel Deals, Vacation Packages, Air Travel, Airline Travel, Airlines, Online Travel, Online Travel Discounts, Chicago Flights, Group Travel and Vacation Deals) and then tracks the organic and paid performance of each site across the entire spectrum of relevant words. Rankings are weighted based on word relevancy and organic and paid position on Google and Yahoo.
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