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

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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 transform your Google Ads headlines with anti-audiences

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The problem is clicks and click-through rates (CTR) are poor metrics for determining an ad’s effectiveness. Does this mean you should aim for a lower CTR? Walkthrough: Optimize Google Ads with anti-audiences Now that you’re familiar with the concept of anti-audiences, let’s put it into practice by optimizing an ad from start to finish.

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7 ways to elevate your responsive search ads

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Less is sometimes more We’re starting with a concept rather than a feature here, but just because you can add 15 headlines and four descriptions doesn’t mean you should also populate all of those slots. You can set up experiments to show each ad evenly at 50/50 over a selected time period (currently maxed out at 64 days).

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

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By summing up the expected traffic in SGE and comparing it to current traffic, we can see if our organic traffic is expected to drop, or even possibly grow, when Google transitions to SGE. 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).

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How to link GA4 with Google Search Console

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Getting started: How to link GA4 with Google Search Console In order to see the Google Search Console data in our GA4 report, we will have to follow the detailed steps below. If your Search Console account was previously set up and the site verification was done, you can access historical data in the same Search Console report in GA4.

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How to uncover hidden gems in your paid search accounts

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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. What does this indicate? A misalignment in who your target audience is.

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

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In the case of indented search results, pages you did not intend to appear are also showing up for that query. 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.

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