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

Search Engine Land

Service providers circumnavigate this challenge by offering alternative rank names and values, presumably representative of what Google uses internally. Google consistently focuses on their usersexperiences as part of their business model. And users like to click on search results of brands they know and trust.

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A tale of two snippets: What link attribution in SGE tells us about search

Search Engine Land

In 2007, Google wrote about meta descriptions that they “want snippets to accurately represent the web result.” ” In 2012, they introduced rich snippets guidelines to “provide even better summaries” to users. Yes, Google as a corporation has reason to keep users on their own search results page.

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How brand marketing helps improve E-A-T signals: An introduction

Search Engine Land

Representing and marketing key people, particularly media-trained spokespeople, is usually the remit of the PR team or agency. To bring the best user experience to its customers through innovative hardware, software, and services.” “To Here are some fun examples that you will likely know. Authenticity is key.

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Should You Optimize for Micro-Conversions?

ConversionXL

If your business relies on repeat payments, conversion rate is probably not the right metric to optimise for; just like CTR is terrible for optimising hotel bookings (e.g. EMK with subject “FREE BEER” will improve CTR, but probably reduce sales once customers figure out there is no beer on your site, certainly not free beer).

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How to Nail Down the Perfect Website Navigation

Hubspot

For the sake of SEO and user experience, Orbit Media recommends keeping your navigation limited to seven items at most. Card-sorting is a simple user-experience technique that helps you get into the minds of your website visitors and design the navigation from their standpoint. What should be included in it?

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International SEO 101: Which Domain Structure Should You Use?

Hubspot

We created two nearly identical surveys: one targeted to a representative sample in the U.S. and one to a representative sample in Australia. User Awareness of ccTLD. Before trying to understand how users related to ccTLDs, we needed to validate the assumption that users even know that general TLDs exist.

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What is quality score and how to use it in PPC

Search Engine Land

Google calculates quality score based on the combined performance of three components: Expected click-through rate (CTR) : The anticipated CTR of the ad against what the ad platform considers similar ads. Optimizing for good CTR is more important than optimizing for good expected CTR. crawl budget is allocated for it).

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