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

Search Engine Land

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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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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How to Make Your Google Search Snippets More Clickable

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Organic click-through rate (CTR) is declining across the board: The top position had a CTR of 38.7% However, being a bit more strategic about it will help you on many fronts, including creating better, more thorough copy, improving your organic rankings, and, yes, increasing your click-through rate (CTR). in May 2014.

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How to prepare for Google SGE: Actionable tips for SEO success

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It is reasonable to assume that we could see a decrease in organic traffic of up to 30% – similar to how featured snippets impact some search results. If users are prompted to create an AI overview, a certain portion will follow through and create one. But how big will that impact be?

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How Search Generative Experience works and why retrieval-augmented generation is our future

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I expect more will follow what we’re doing at my agency when they generate content for their clients as the knowledge of the approach becomes more commonplace. It’s like sending someone out to pick up a gourmet cheesesteak from Barclay Prime, and they come back with a veggie sandwich from Subway – not what you asked for.

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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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How to Use Single Keyword Ad Groups in AdWords

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Improving your Quality Score, increasing your clickthrough rate (CTR), reducing your ad spend without compromising results… these are all top-of-mind for PPC marketers using AdWords. Recently, we increased our CTR by 28.1%, improving our Quality Score from 5.56 We found that single keyword ad groups increased CTR by 28.1%

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