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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. The generative AI user interfaces from Google and Bing take over the search results, presenting a much richer response to the user’s query compared to traditional search engine result pages.

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

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In our most successful project, a client expected to lose at least 79% of organic traffic is now expected to grow by 97% (in the most favorable scenario). 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). CTR in Google SGE (Pessimistic).

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How Search Generative Experience works and why retrieval-augmented generation is our future

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However, Neeva was the first to implement this in a major public search engine by having it power its impressive and highly specific featured snippets. I expect more will follow what we’re doing at my agency when they generate content for their clients as the knowledge of the approach becomes more commonplace. How does RAG work?

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Google Ads broad match: What the data reveals for PPC marketers

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Our team and clients extensively discussed the idea of a “keywordless” future heading our way, especially in the context of Performance Max campaigns. I pulled data across our client accounts for the past 12 months. Phrase match is the worst performing match type with a slight exception for CTR Poor phrase match.

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Quality score in paid search: Vanity or valuable?

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Google’s official help files say this: “Quality Score is calculated based on the combined performance of 3 components: Expected clickthrough rate (CTR): The likelihood that your ad will be clicked when shown. Search engine algorithms don’t understand intent, especially in B2B. Or is it really just a vanity metric?

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Case study: Are indented search results on Google actually hurting your business?

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CTR based on position. If we look at these three studies , the average click-through rate (CTR) based on Google SERP position looks like this: Position CTR range 1 28-40% 2 16-18% 3 10-11% 4 7-8% 5 6% or less. Using the table above, our CTR would be around 14% (adding the high of position 4 and position 5).

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This Google Ads script uses GPT to summarize account performance

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I’ll teach you how I engineered the prompt to get a successful result. By nature, it’s also repetitive because clients and stakeholders expect the latest report in their inbox regularly – be it weekly, monthly, or, heaven forbid, even daily. We all know it’s a simple formula: clicks/impressions = CTR.

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