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How to Check Your Website’s SEO Rankings (and Improve Them)

Top Rank Marketing

In 2023, the top-ranked result of a SERP in Google generated 39.8% CTR rates, with the second and third-ranking results getting 18.7% Using it is easy and free: Verify that you own your domain by following these steps. Where you are ranking on Google SERPs of that search phrase. Which pages appear in the SERP.

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The implications of Google using click data in ranking

Kevin Indig

Using clicks in ranking can mean a lot of things: CTR, long clicks, pogo-sticking (clicking on lots of search results until you find what you want), etc. Gary Illyes confirmed that Google uses clicks to display SERP Features at the SEO meetup in SF. Invest in brand awareness so users recognize domains and click our domains in search.

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Identifying Advanced GSC Search Performance Patterns (and What to Do About Them)

Moz

Not only does it provide us with the closest understanding we can have of Googlebot’s behavior and perception of our domain properties (in terms of indexability, site usability, and more), but it also allows us to assess the search KPIs that we work so rigorously to improve. Out of 125K searches, the page only received 273 clicks.

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Empower Your SEO and Digital Marketing Strategy with Data

Anyword

The Importance of Intent in SEO. It’s also important to note how intent comes into play with your keywords. implies informational intent and is well-suited for blog and longer-form, instructional content. In comparison, the keyword by itself or “[your chosen keyword’ near me” implies a more transactional intent.

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The Featured Snippet Is Now Result #1: What This Means for SEO

Conductor

On January 22nd, 2020, Google rolled out a change to featured snippets (FS), the information block that appears at the top of a search results page (SERP). Let’s say that this move kills CTR for URLs in the featured snippet box. Will this negatively affect CTR? is this affecting also Knowledge Panels?

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What Is the Google Sandbox Effect? Is it Real?

seo.co

There are two main factors that supposedly influence the Google Sandbox penalty: The active age of the domain. Most notably, only relatively new domains are affected by the Google Sandbox. Note that this applies not to the WHOIS registry of the domain, but rather the date on which the pages of the domain were first indexed.

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How Can SEO and Paid Media Work Together for Better Results?

Directive Agency

Websites that focus on SEO can capture high-intent website traffic from individuals who are actively seeking a company’s products or services. This high-intent traffic leads to higher conversion rates, higher than what we regularly see with PPC. What is PPC? Benefits of PPC.