article thumbnail

How to transform your Google Ads headlines with anti-audiences

Search Engine Land

Not only does this approach prevent unnecessary clicks – saving you money – it also boosts your conversion rates by focusing on those most likely to convert. Who fills out a form but never follows through to become a client or customer? Conversely, attracting fewer but more targeted clicks can significantly enhance performance.

CTR 109
article thumbnail

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

Search Engine Land

Figure 1: Brand and non-brand keywords overview (Source: Semrush) Figure 2: Organic traffic growth (Source: Semrush) Figure 3: Brand search and traffic (Source: Semrush) Non-brand keyword CTR Ranking in the top three positions in Google generates the vast majority of clicks (Figure 4). Thus, ranking in the top positions is still a good goal.

CTR 94
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Why it’s time to reevaluate your match type and bidding strategy

Search Engine Land

Conversion rate. Additionally, we examined Maximize Conversions against Maximize Conversion Value in 1,334 accounts due to their close association with smart bidding. Key findings from the study reveal: Broad vs. Exact Match : In most cases, exact match performed better in terms of CPC, CTR, CPA, ROAS, and conversion rate.

CTR 121
article thumbnail

How to uncover hidden gems in your paid search accounts

Search Engine Land

Metrics matter Analyze key metrics like click-through rate (CTR), cost-per-click (CPC), conversion rate (CVR), conversion volume and cost-per-conversion across the different objectives and campaign types in your account and note any discrepancy or misalignment. In another example, let’s look at cost-per-conversion.

CTR 91
article thumbnail

7 ways to elevate your responsive search ads

Search Engine Land

You can customize how many days in advance you’d like the timer to begin. For example, putting your product in the first two titles (long name) and including the price as the final title is not ideal if Google decides to mix that order, even if the algorithm thinks it has a better CTR. Test yourself against the algorithm.

CTR 108
article thumbnail

Top 10 SEO benefits of building a brand that people trust

Search Engine Land

Through content, SEO aims to meet searchers where they’re at, solve their problems and nurture them to conversion. A strong brand equals trust, likely improving your click-through rate (CTR). It should be no surprise that rank 1, Page 1 has the highest clicks with close to 25% CTR on mobile. The CTR drops rapidly by rank.

Trust 102
article thumbnail

Optimizing your Performance Max campaigns with Google Ads, GA4 data

Search Engine Land

For example, within Google Ads (and when pulling the data from Google Ads via the API), advertisers can’t parse out performance data, such as conversions or cost per conversion, by channel. With marketers mostly being measured by performance, such as clicks and conversions, I suspect advertisers weren’t biting on these ad formats.

Campaign 105