The role of click-through rate (CTR) in SEO has been debated for many years. Several industry studies have asserted that CTR is a ranking factor – a claim that’s been ardently denied by many Googlers. Whether it’s a direct ranking signal or not, CTR has its place in SEO. This article explores why CTR matters ..
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Evergreen content is content with a long lifespan. It is also incredibly important for search engine optimization (SEO). In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about evergreen content – including what makes a topic evergreen, why evergreen content is important and some examples to inspire you. What is evergreen content? Evergreen content ..
A full 87% of shoppers in the U.S. begin product searches online, with a majority turning to Google to find the answers they need. The path to purchase is non-linear, with multiple touches occurring across channels, devices, and locations. Providing potential customers with helpful content throughout this journey is the best way to build trust. ..
Instagram users can now add up to five links to their profile bios. This new feature was announced in a brief post on Mark Zuckerberg’s broadcast channel, a relatively new feature that lets creators send messages to their entire community. Zuckerberg said that support for multiple links in the bio was “probably one of the ..
SEO or PPC? Like everything in marketing, it would be great if there was a simple answer to the SEO vs. PPC question. Unfortunately, despite the human temptation to simplify this into a binary answer, the answer is complicated. SEO helps your webpages rank higher on the non-paid search results by improving the quality and ..
“The value proposition that we see for publishers specifically as we go forward is driving more traffic and clicks—not less—and ensuring that publishers and partners earn more money.” That’s according to new Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Ads Kya Sainsbury-Carter, in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal. Why we care. The rise of ..
Google expanded the display of shipping and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites while adding new reporting to Search Console to monitor and fix the structured data related to these e-commerce features, Google wrote. Several months ago, we saw Google show return and shipping information in the search results snippets. Now ..
Google is placing more importance on the content source, specifically the author, when ranking search results. The introduction of Perspectives, About this result and About this author in the SERPs makes this clear. This article explores how Google can potentially evaluate content pieces through their authors’ experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness (E-E-A-T). E-E-A-T: Google’s quality ..
If you’ve ever googled instructions for how to perform a specific task, then you the importance of high-quality how-to content. The person desperately searching for an excellent how-to article on fixing a leaky sink will find immense relief when they finally hit on a blog post that lays it out simply and clearly, for instance. ..
Google is in the process of building an “all-new search engine” powered by its new A.I. technology while at the same time working on adding new A.I.-based features to its current search engine under the project name Magi. “The new search engine would offer users a far more personalized experience than the company’s current service, ..
