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Top 10 SEO benefits of building a brand that people trust

Search Engine Land

A strong brand equals trust, likely improving your click-through rate (CTR). If you’re not there, you’re losing valuable traffic, giving it away to a competitor who showed up when the searcher needed them the most. It should be no surprise that rank 1, Page 1 has the highest clicks with close to 25% CTR on mobile.

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

Search Engine Land

The site was able to: Rank in the top three positions of Google for commercial keywords that get up to 246,000 average monthly searches. Additionally, ecommerce SERPs tend to have ads taking up some of the real estate, which can reduce organic CTR. Thus, this CTR study signifies that ranking higher means more traffic.

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How To Build the Email List of Your Dreams

Salesforce

Email lists are great because when people choose to sign up for content, it means they’re already interested in your brand. The fact that you have direct access to a list of good prospects helps you get your content right into their inbox – and since the prospects gave you permission to send them email, a trust factor is already built in.

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Forget PageRank: Here’s why you should focus on ranking instead

Search Engine Land

However, following this strategy is often dangerous due to potential Google Search violations. In addition, Google does not utilize any trust or reputation rank values calculated by third parties either. And users like to click on search results of brands they know and trust. Their visibility is owed to other SEO signals.

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Optimize your Email Deliverability: A Look at Heinz Marketing

Heinz Marketing

We’ve been on quite the journey together – investigating how who you send to , what you send , and how you send it all add up to determine how (or if) an email is received by your reader. We came up with all sorts of reasons why – maybe our list was getting stale. We hit rock bottom that month with a CTR of 2.2%.

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Why next year’s SEO results depend on your SEO work this year

Search Engine Land

Broke, unemployed, out of business, or gobbled up by their closest competitors. Everything is always up and to the right. What’s more common is some variation of the following: Day 0 = Not indexed. Open up your favorite SEO tool and look up the ranking timeline for any top page on your site. Here’s why.

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SEO KPIs to track and measure SEO success

Search Engine Land

SEO KPI Process The following is a simple process that you can use to determine your SEO goals and KPIs. Following this approach, you will create three to five relevant SEO goals that you can easily measure with three to five SEO KPIs each. The following is a categorized list of SEO metrics to build your SEO KPIs.