Method and System for Negative Keyword Recommendations

1 . A computer implemented method comprising:

determining, via a physical computing device, effectiveness of keywords;

classifying the search terms to include effective search terms and ineffective search terms;

creating an exclusion keyword list based on the ineffective search terms;

removing from the exclusion keyword list the ineffective search terms that conflict with the effective search terms; and

determining negative keywords.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the determining includes compiling statistics for each search term for each search engine based on one or more factors.

3 . The method of claim 2 wherein the one or more factors include number of clicks, bounce rate, search engine click through rate, conversions, conversion value, and time spent on website.

4 . The method of claim 2 wherein the determining further includes creating time weighted averages of the statistics.

5 . The method of claim 2 wherein the determining further includes categorizing the search terms by an effectiveness criterion.

6 . The method of claim 2 wherein the determining further includes categorizing the search terms by a data sufficiency criterion.

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein the creating includes employing a linguistic stemmer.

8 . The method of claim 7 wherein the creating further includes grouping the ineffective search terms by meaning.

9 . The method of claim 7 wherein the creating further includes eliminating the ineffective search terms based on frequency thresholds.

10 . The method of claim 7 wherein the creating further includes expanding the exclusion keyword list to include variations of the ineffective search terms.

11 . The method of claim 7 wherein the creating further includes associating a negative match type with the ineffective search terms.

12 . A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when executed by a machine, perform a method comprising:

determining effectiveness of keywords;

classifying the search terms to include effective search terms and ineffective search terms;

creating an exclusion keyword list based on the ineffective search terms;

removing from the exclusion keyword list the ineffective search terms that conflict with the effective search terms; and

determining negative keywords.

13 . The method of claim 12 wherein the determining includes compiling statistics for each search term for each search engine based on one or more factors.

14 . The method of claim 13 wherein the one or more factors include number of clicks, bounce rate, search engine click through rate, conversions, conversion value, and time spent on website.

15 . The method of claim 13 wherein the determining further includes categorizing the search terms by a data sufficiency criterion.

16 . The method of claim 12 wherein the creating includes employing a linguistic stemmer.

17 . The method of claim 16 wherein the creating further includes grouping the ineffective search terms by meaning.

18 . The method of claim 16 wherein the creating further includes eliminating the ineffective search terms based on frequency thresholds.

19 . The method of claim 16 wherein the creating further includes expanding the exclusion keyword list to include variations of the ineffective keywords.

20 . A computer system comprising:

at least one server to:

determine effectiveness of search terms;

classify the search terms to include effective search terms;

create an exclusion keyword list based on ineffective search terms;

remove from the exclusion keyword list the ineffective search terms that conflict with the effective search terms; and

determine negative keywords.