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How entity-based strategies can contribute to PPC success

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If your website follows an entity approach and the accompanying PPC campaigns are aligned with that approach, you will see high quality scores, which mean lower costs-per-click and higher click-through rates. Ad relevance: Entities ensure your ads are relevant to users’ intent, not just matching keywords.

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

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Top Google rankings: Secured top three positions for competitive terms like “electric bike” (246,000 searches) and “eBike” (90,500 searches), boosted by strategic digital PR and a focus on the online audience journey. Thus, this CTR study signifies that ranking higher means more traffic.

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

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Next, we use two parameters to define “how bad” or “how good” SGE will be for our websites: CTR and rank. Click-through rate (CTR) in SGE It is a mystery what will be the actual CTR of different positions in the SGE snapshot carousel. CTR in Google SGE (Pessimistic). CTR in Google SGE (Pessimistic).

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How out-of-order ad promotion works on Google Search

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How Google ranks ads in auctions Google uses second-price ad auctions to determine which ads show for a search query and how much advertisers pay for clicks. Advertisers bid on keywords, and their ad position is based on Quality Score , which, in highly simplified terms, is a combination of bid amount and predicted click-through rate.

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SEO topic clusters: How to create, measure and analyze

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Dig deeper: An SEO guide to understanding E-E-A-T Understanding topic clusters for SEO Topic clusters offer a strategic way to organize and structure your content, providing valuable information to your target audience. This strategic use of keywords helps search engines understand the main focus of the content.

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How to measure schema performance

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Identifying the right KPIs to measure : This includes impressions, clicks, CTR, SERPs saturation, and potential cost savings. In the image below, you'll see that after deploying schema, KPIs such as clicks, impressions, CTR and average position also went up. High or low CTR is based on your content strategy.

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3 steps for effective PPC reporting and analysis

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Secondary metrics (for any account) might include click-through rate, cost per click, cost per thousand impressions (CPM), or search impression share. Efficiency Cost per click (CPC) : How efficiently you drive traffic/engagement. Conversion rate : How effective/relevant your landing page or targeting is.