CTR (Click Thru Rate) is a good indicator of success, but it’s not foolproof. If you don’t check other indicators, you might be fooling yourself. You think all’s well and it ain’t. What’s the solution?<\/p>\n
The solution is that you need to take it to the next level. You have to track the results. The dot com bust was a result of this belief in one piece of data over all others.<\/p>\n
They believed in traffic, at the expense of any real income or profit. If you focus solely on CTR, you might be making the same mistake.<\/p>\n
You must examine those keyphrases you’re targeting, whether that’s for SEO or a Google Ads campaign, and see if they’re producing response. Your response will vary according to what you’re after, so that could be a sale or a client lead.<\/p>\n
I can say from personal experience that keyphrases that were giving my clients excellent CTRs had to be eliminated.<\/p>\n
They were not producing response – a lot of traffic, but little to no sales. They were targeted as far as being on topic, but they didn’t produce.<\/p>\n
Again, CTR can be a great indicator of SEO or Pay-Per-Click performance, but going by that alone can hurt you.<\/p>\n
Take it to the next level – test and track your optimization\/marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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