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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 out-of-order ad promotion works on Google Search

Search Engine Land

This practice is known as out-of-order ad promotion. This little nuance to how the ad auction works can be confusing, so in this article, I’ll explain how out-of-order promotion works and why Google does it. In our example, Ad 2 meets the relevance requirement because its predicted CTR is 5%, higher than the 4% threshold.

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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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Google tests more noticeable ad labels in search results

Search Engine Land

The update introduces a taller gray background for ads, accompanied by a “Sponsored” label and subtitles like “Promoted products” or “Promoted results.” Advertisers should keep a close eye on metrics like CTR and conversion rates as these experiments evolve. What it looks like. Bottom line.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to LinkedIn Ads

ConversionXL

Single image ads look like promoted posts from a company’s LinkedIn feed. A video ads CTR sits around 0.44% compared to 0.56% for sponsored content. . However, this is a step many people won’t take––with a benchmark CTR of 0.4%. For a single image ad, the CTR is 0.56% and for a video ad, it’s 0.44%. . Carousel ads.

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Facebook Tests Promoted Posts in News Feeds of Non-Fans

Hubspot

Inside Facebook points out that early tests of Sponsored Stories in the news feed provided a much higher click-through rate than ads that appeared in the sidebar, so it remains to be seen whether the better placement of these page post ads will result in similarly high CTR, or whether social relevancy is required for good performance.

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What's The Best Time to Send Email Campaigns? (Research-Backed)

Hubspot

Consider this: you spend months creating a campaign to promote a new product launch, but once you've executed the campaign, you're noticing numbers are lower than you expected. For instance, Wordstream found that sending email campaigns before 10:30 on Thursdays yields 25% CTR , as opposed to Tuesdays at the same time, which earns a 5% CTR.

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