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Quality score in paid search: Vanity or valuable?

Search Engine Land

Google’s official help files say this: “Quality Score is calculated based on the combined performance of 3 components: Expected clickthrough rate (CTR): The likelihood that your ad will be clicked when shown. Ambiguity with B2C searches (e.g., “security solutions,” “renewable energy,” etc.).

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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

ConversionXL

For reference, according to FirstPageSage , a good engagement rate is anything above 63% for B2B websites and above 71% for B2C websites. Most analyses find that average conversion rate for B2B companies is around 2%, whereas for B2C companies it’s around around 1.6%. Based on those figures, your CTR would be 50%.

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How Search Generative Experience works and why retrieval-augmented generation is our future

Search Engine Land

The CTR model will change The 10 blue links will get fewer clicks because the AI snapshot will push the standard organic results down. The 30-45% click-through rate (CTR) for Position 1 will likely drop precipitously. Adjusted CTR is where most of the magic happens, and getting here requires the “math to be mathin’,” as the kids say.

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3 common B2B SEO mistakes sabotaging cost per lead

Search Engine Land

It’s just that low-priced, transactional sales or impulse buys are easy to generate “click + convert” B2C sales. Based on SERP CTR averages , it means you’re unlikely to ever see anything greater than ~5% of the potential traffic. B2B CPCs and lower-click through rates have been maligned on this very site since 2007!

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5X the Spend, 2X the Engagement: Why AI Retail Merchandising Is Essential for the Holidays

Salesforce

They found that personalized product recommendations calculated by Einstein AI Product Recommendations delivered a 93% higher click-through rate (CTR) compared to human-curated recommendations. The Salesforce B2C Commerce platform delivers success to global brands every day, every month, every holiday, and at every turn in the economy.

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Where Does Pinterest Fit in Your Marketing Mix?

ConversionXL

For some of my personal Pinterest pages, the pins that I reuse I have an average click-through rate (CTR) of 2%. If you search for “insurance” on Pinterest, you get pins such as these: Say that these have about a 1% CTR. However, on Pinterest, the CTR averaged around 1%; on Google Ads, it was up to 4.56%.

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The Power of We: Getting Sales and Marketing on the Same Page

Sales Hacker

For example, B2C businesses need a shorter consideration phase than B2B businesses, which require more lead nurturing. When we ran an ad in our client’s own language, we saw CTR increase four-fold. However, how these steps look and what they entail will be unique for every business. Implementing Smarketing in Your Org.

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