Mining the Long Tail of Search Queries - Finding Profitable Patterns

Michael Meisel, Maik Benndorf, Andreas Ittner

2013

Abstract

Many search engine marketing campaigns contain a lot of different search queries with a low frequency referred as "Long Tail". It is not possible to draw reliable conclusions about the performance of a specific search query with low frequency regarding a business goal because of its limited sample size. In this paper we present a method for finding profitable patterns in the long tail of search queries. The method aggregates search queries based on mined patterns and rejects the non profitable groups. We applied our method to a search engine marketing campaign with over 10,000 different search queries and performed an offline test and an online A/B-test to measure the performance of the method.

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Meisel M., Benndorf M. and Ittner A. (2013). Mining the Long Tail of Search Queries - Finding Profitable Patterns . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: SSTM, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-75-4, pages 225-229. DOI: 10.5220/0004521602250229

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sstm13,
author={Michael Meisel and Maik Benndorf and Andreas Ittner},
title={Mining the Long Tail of Search Queries - Finding Profitable Patterns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: SSTM, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={225-229},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004521602250229},
isbn={978-989-8565-75-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: SSTM, (IC3K 2013)
TI - Mining the Long Tail of Search Queries - Finding Profitable Patterns
SN - 978-989-8565-75-4
AU - Meisel M.
AU - Benndorf M.
AU - Ittner A.
PY - 2013
SP - 225
EP - 229
DO - 10.5220/0004521602250229