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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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Domain Authority: The Ranking Factor Every SEO Should Know About

Hubspot

But even though you can’t optimize for all of Google’s ranking factors, you can still optimize for one of the search engine’s most important ranking factors -- domain authority. From Google’s perspective, domain authority is like your website’s reputation as a thought leader. What is domain authority?

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The baseline problem in SEO forecasting

Kevin Indig

Unpredictable factors (Google updates, competitors, SERP landscape changes) make SEO forecasting tricky, but nothing leads to unrealistic goals more as the SEO baseline problem.   Track before / after SEO metrics (sessions, clicks, CTR, conversions) when rolling out changes to pages, subdirectories and domains.

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Google Search Console: A Guide to How It Works & What GSC Offers

seo.co

On the other hand, only 22% of marketers in a survey divulged that quality data empowers them to analyze the website’s performance on the SERPs, increase ROI, and significantly improve their traffic. This clearly emphasizes the need for tracking and analyzing: how your website performs in the SERPs. CTR (Click Through Rate).

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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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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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Google Search Console: What is GSC & How to Use it to Improve SEO

seo.co

On the other hand, only 22% of marketers in a survey divulged that quality data empowers them to analyze the website’s performance on the SERPs, increase ROI, and significantly improve their traffic. This clearly emphasizes the need for tracking and analyzing: how your website performs in the SERPs. CTR (Click Through Rate).