Patent Document ID: 8230062
Application ID: 12819402

Base Claim:
1. A method of compiling marketing information for a client, comprising: (a) crawling blog posts; (b) extracting an insight related to a topic from the crawled blog posts; (c) collecting one or more measurements of traffic to a client website, the traffic being referred to the client website by referring blog posts, the referring blog posts including the crawled blog posts; (d) associating the measurements of traffic with the extracted insight; and (e) aggregating the measurements of traffic associated with the insight across the crawled blog posts, wherein the aggregating comprises multiplying each measurement of traffic by a weighting factor associated with respective referring blog posts to obtain a product, and summing the products.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step (a) includes crawling blog posts, which contain at least one link to the client website.