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Google AI Overviews, clicks and traffic impact: Unraveling the mystery

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While vaguely mentioning that links in AIO get higher click-through rates (CTRs), Google has remained evasive when directly asked about this. Regarding CTR, if the AIO summary is divided into multiple sections, each section typically contains one or more links. Only Google can definitively answer this because that data is not public.

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How an ecommerce site increased commercial monthly organic traffic from 37K to 210K

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The site was able to: Rank in the top three positions of Google for commercial keywords that get up to 246,000 average monthly searches. Additionally, ecommerce SERPs tend to have ads taking up some of the real estate, which can reduce organic CTR. Thus, this CTR study signifies that ranking higher means more traffic.

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Google testing new SGE ad format

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When select users asked the search engine follow-up questions to queries, SGE provided an AI-generated answer alongside sponsored content titled “You May Also Like” The feature served a carousel of products, all of which displayed a product title, image and company name. If you focus on paid, definitely a big heads-up.”

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A guide to ad variations in Google Ads

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For instance, responsive search ads can consist of up to 15 headlines and four descriptions in a practically endless variety of formats. Let’s start with an overview of how to set up ad variations and move on to practical ideas for using them in your accounts. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

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How to link GA4 with Google Search Console

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Getting started: How to link GA4 with Google Search Console In order to see the Google Search Console data in our GA4 report, we will have to follow the detailed steps below. Step 3: The following panel will open. The data presented enables us to analyze clicks, impressions, CTR and average position of terms globally by country.

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How Google SGE will impact your traffic – and 3 SGE recovery case studies

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By summing up the expected traffic in SGE and comparing it to current traffic, we can see if our organic traffic is expected to drop, or even possibly grow, when Google transitions to SGE. Next, we use two parameters to define “how bad” or “how good” SGE will be for our websites: CTR and rank. CTR in Google SGE (Pessimistic).

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How to prepare for Google SGE: Actionable tips for SEO success

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It is reasonable to assume that we could see a decrease in organic traffic of up to 30% – similar to how featured snippets impact some search results. If users are prompted to create an AI overview, a certain portion will follow through and create one. But how big will that impact be?

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