Informational

  • Questions

Transactional

  • Search signals intent to buy
  • Lots of ads. Top search results are way down on the page.
  • Middle or bottom of sales funnel.

Navigational

  • User wants to get to a web site or physical location
  • Includes “local teaser pack” or “map pack”
  • Entire “above the fold” is search engine results page features
  • Purchase intent is high. Bottom of sales funnel

Branded

  • Easy to rank highly for branded searches
  • Not useful to try to rank for those
  • High purchase intent. Bottom of sales funnel