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A Complete Guide to YouTube Analytics

ConversionXL

With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. YouTube elevates videos (and channels) that prove meaningful engagement, which is exactly what AVD and CTR do. Why does YouTube elevate AVD and CTR?

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

Search Engine Land

Still, it remains an expensive guessing game that ultimately can lead to a dramatic traffic loss when Google finds out. This is why growing brand recognition is bound to increase CTR, an excellent way to increase rankings for competitive queries. In short, an SEO strategy focused on buying PageRank-passing backlinks can work.

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How to navigate SEO in a multi-platform world

Search Engine Land

Use Pinterest search to do keyword research and find niche topics. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have emerged as game-changers in SEO. Define a value for featured snippets and position zero and determine the impact on CTR and traffic. Create boards to categorize your pins.

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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

Because it’s so challenging to create engaging content, there’s a big opportunity to create fresh content and carve out your niche. The two major metrics you need to look at are: Click-through Rate (CTR), which tells you how engaging your thumbnail and title is. Click-through rate (CTR). Vanity metrics.

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How To Make a Vlog [Step by Step]

Hubspot

Feel out the competition and find your niche. It starts with finding your niche. Here are additional steps you should take to narrow down your niche: Confirm the demand for your content – Use tools like Google Trends and Google Keyword Planne r to double-check the interest in the type of content you will be producing.

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7 Ways SEO & PPC Can Work Together in 2021

Hubspot

But if click-through rate (CTR) and engagement is low — even if it ranks on page one — you've now spent your time and budget running circles in an SEO hamster wheel. And, by the way, CTR is an indirect SEO ranking factor. While this is a challenge for some marketers, don't hate the player — hate the game.

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The “Curse of Knowledge”: How Expertise Can Hurt Marketing

ConversionXL

For example, if you sell an email platform, those “dumb” questions could be: Do you know what CTR stands for? Once we’ve completed these steps in our research phase, the guessing-game and assumptions have no place in the process. Do you know what “double opt-in” means? You might be surprised by the answers. Do they bounce?

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