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The fallacy of CTR as a KPI: Redefining PPC ad success

Search Engine Land

Click-through rate (CTR) is a cornerstone metric of PPC marketing. Calculated as the percentage of people who click on an ad after seeing it, CTR is often treated as a key performance indicator (KPI), commanding disproportionate attention and optimization efforts. For location-based businesses, this irrelevant traffic skews CTR data.

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How to use Google Search Console to unlock easy SEO wins

Search Engine Land

Average CTR (disabled). This now filters the data so you only see your target country (which makes the clicks, impressions, CTR and rankings much more accurate). The screenshot below has a few exciting examples: 305 clicks from 12,743 impressions with a CTR of 2.4% 53 clicks from 10,687 impressions with a CTR of 0.5%

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How your ad position and CTR impact conversion rate

Search Engine Land

Learn how to use your keyword ranking and click-through rate data to improve the performance of your paid search campaigns. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Is CTR Dead? Why Email Marketers Are Tracking CTOR Instead

Hubspot

Click-through-rate or CTR reigned as the superior engagement metric for most of email marketing’s history, but click-to-open rate is the new sheriff in town -- and it’s a lot more revealing and insightful than its predecessor.

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Google AI Overviews, clicks and traffic impact: Unraveling the mystery

Search Engine Land

While vaguely mentioning that links in AIO get higher click-through rates (CTRs), Google has remained evasive when directly asked about this. Regarding CTR, if the AIO summary is divided into multiple sections, each section typically contains one or more links. Only Google can definitively answer this because that data is not public.

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Search ad costs rise, conversion rates decline again in 2024

Search Engine Land

The 2024 edition once again features data on the average conversion rate, cost per lead (CPL), click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). CTR: 6.42%. CTR increased by 5%, on average, for 70% of industries. The average CTR was 6.11% in 2023 and 5.91% in 2022. It’s basically more of the same story as 2023.

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Why you should turn off optimized targeting in GDN today

Search Engine Land

Targeting Invalid CTR Yes 66% No 26% Difference -60% Campaign before and after opting out of optimized targeting Time Period Impressions Invalid Clicks Invalid CTR Before 3,492,348 31,461 66% After 3,335736 5,154 45% Difference -4% -84% -31% Comparing the 30-day periods before and after opting out of optimized targeting.

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