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Google Organic Click-Through Rates in 2014
Philip Petrescu

Google Organic Click-Through Rates in 2014

We've all been there. Trying to improve our organic rankings so we can get more traffic from the search engines. And every time we do that, we are left with some big questions in our minds, like: How much traffic would I actually get if I rank on the first page? This post offers a new study of click-through rates of various positions on SERPs in an attempt to answer those questions.

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Searchmetrics Ranking Factors 2014: Why Quality Content Focuses on Topics, not Keywords
Marcus Tober

Searchmetrics Ranking Factors 2014: Why Quality Content Focuses on Topics, not Keywords

Searchmetrics recently launched their yearly Ranking Factors Study that bases numbers on rank correlation and averages of top 10 SEO rankings. The 2014 analysis shows that content on top-performing sites is much more holistic and less keyword-focused. In this post, Marcus Tober, founder and CTO of Searchmetrics, explains why you should focus on more than just keywords when it comes to technical aspects of your site, and how you can create relevant, comprehensive content for users.