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Is click-through rate a valuable SEO metric?

Search Engine Land

The role of click-through rate (CTR) in SEO has been debated for many years. In PPC campaigns, it is used as a metric to measure ad effectiveness. When it comes to SEO, CTR refers to the percentage of people who click an organic or unpaid (Google) search result that leads to your website.

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How to create a successful 2023 holiday season SEO strategy

Search Engine Land

Although temperatures continue to linger in the upper half of the thermometer, it’s never too early to begin setting your SEO campaigns up for success amid an ever-crowded holiday shopping field. Pay attention to their backlink profile, site user experience (UX), and keyword targeting.

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How to analyze Google’s SERPs

Search Engine Land

For example, on Ahrefs, I just conducted a search for “SEO” and came out with the following: Search Engine Land’s What is SEO is ranked #2 and shows the following statistics: Ranking for this keyword will be extremely difficult without a massive budget, a highly reputable website and a backlink campaign. The competition.

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Dwell Time is the SEO Metric You Need to Track

Hubspot

These interests help marketers make informed decisions about campaigns tailored to their customers' interests. Dwell time is the metric that runs through various search engine results pages (SERPs). You notice the piece has a high click-through rate, but low dwell time. It can also lead to clues about improving UX.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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7 Ways SEO & PPC Can Work Together in 2021

Hubspot

But if click-through rate (CTR) and engagement is low — even if it ranks on page one — you've now spent your time and budget running circles in an SEO hamster wheel. Test as many ad copy variations as possible, until you have the data that will support your SEO campaigns. Keywords and topics. Specific keyword angles.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. A famous 1913 campaign by R.J. That rarely happens.

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