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Free trial vs. demo: What’s more effective in B2B SaaS ads?

Martech

For now, most of Obility’s clients remain focused on demos and sales-focused strategies. Show me the data It’s no surprise demos and free trials are performing well for Obility’s clients. The vendors included both Obility clients and non-clients. He’s seen the movement to PLG and PLM firsthand.

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How to recover from Google Ads performance drops

Search Engine Land

You check Level 2 and see that CTR has remained stable, but the conversion rate has dropped. Traffic issues (CTR, impression share) : Focus on ad copy, keywords or bidding strategies. However, with some decent PPC knowledge, you can also create those charts for yourself that are more aligned with the client’s characteristics.

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Why you should turn off optimized targeting in GDN today

Search Engine Land

Let’s look at an example When a client wanted to run display campaigns to expand their reach, we launched them with optimized targeting turned on to test the feature. Invalid CTR dropped from 66% to 45%, a 31% improvement. The data shows that turning off optimized targeting led to a substantial decrease in invalid click volume and CTR.

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The fallacy of CTR as a KPI: Redefining PPC ad success

Search Engine Land

Click-through rate (CTR) is a cornerstone metric of PPC marketing. Calculated as the percentage of people who click on an ad after seeing it, CTR is often treated as a key performance indicator (KPI), commanding disproportionate attention and optimization efforts. For location-based businesses, this irrelevant traffic skews CTR data.

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Visual content and SEO: How to use images and videos in 2025

Search Engine Land

7-step process to futureproof your visual content and SEO in 2025 Well-chosen featured images or videos significantly boost a website’s click-through rate (CTR) and encourage user engagement. Success stories Using the seven-step process as mentioned above, our clients were able to drive phenomenal success for their images on search.

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Prioritizing SEO strategies: Where to focus your efforts

Search Engine Land

One of the ways we love to help our clients establish depth of authority is with proprietary data, research and benchmarking that informs reporting and analysis. Impressions, clicks, CTR and on-site user behavior should all be part of your reporting from GA4, Google Search Console and any other platforms you’re accessing.

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Applying scientific method to performance

Martech

I do a lot of performance testing with my clients, and I always follow scientific method. But while the test version lagged in conversions, the click-through rate (CTR) on its top CTA button was nearly double that of the top CTA button in the control. Justifiably so. This time the test won.

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