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Which seo firms produce the most authoritative SEO studies?

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Brand_Psychic last edited by

I'm not talking about conjectures or guesses -- but SEO studies that is actually backed up by hardcore data.

Which SEO firm produces excellent data-driven studies you always trust?
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NgEF @Alick300 last edited by

Excellent! Any other sites to share?
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Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by
Just two examples that are top of mind currently:
- Pinterest: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/demystifying-seo-with-experiments-a183b325cf4c
- Etsy: https://codeascraft.com/2016/10/25/seo-title-tag-optimization/
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Roman-Delcarmen @Alick300 last edited by

Completely agree with you
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Alick300 last edited by

Hi,

I trust two websites 1>Brian Dean's http://backlinko.com/

2>http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/

Thanks
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