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

Search Engine Land

While vaguely mentioning that links in AIO get higher click-through rates (CTRs), Google has remained evasive when directly asked about this. AIO typically provides a summary of the main query topics with brief explanations for each subtopic, including links to non-Google websites.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

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B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. You should also be aware of the law of shitty clickthroughs: all marketing strategies end up having shitty CTR because novelty fades and a first-to-market strategy doesn’t last. In-person events FTW!

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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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SEO content optimization: How to rank higher and convert better by SE Ranking

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For instance: If a page ranks high on SERPs but has a low CTR, you might need to improve your metadata. In most cases, to improve your content’s rating and CTR, you’ll need to: Create attention-grabbing titles and meta descriptions that accurately portray your content. For this, follow these simple steps: Enter a URL.

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What is quality score and how to use it in PPC

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Google calculates quality score based on the combined performance of three components: Expected click-through rate (CTR) : The anticipated CTR of the ad against what the ad platform considers similar ads. How well does the landing page follow through on the ad’s promise?

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Case study: How to get rid of a negative ‘People also ask’ result

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You must keep up with Google’s ever-changing algorithms and rich results, including the People also ask box. What follows are the steps we took to help our client with their negative PAA result. Both the question and the answer use the main keywords "ice cream" and "invented" – and in the same order.

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