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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Organic Click-Through Rate Lessons on 5 Million Google Search Results | Ep. #1144

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1144, we unpack the recent collaborative study on organic click-through rates. This study, conducted by Backlinko and Marketing School, shows findings from over 5 millions Google search results and has a ton of surprising statistics to help you understand your SEO. Tune in to get all the details on this study! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: The Organic Click-Through Rate Lessons on 5 Million Google Search Results. [01:10] A summary of the key findings of this study. [01:29] Why it's a 'winner take all' situation with search results . [02:57] The success rates of titles containing questions. [03:35] Keyword usage in titles and the resulting bump in click through rates. [04:48] The subtractive effect of including power words in your titles. [05:50] Evoking curiosity can make a big difference to your CTR. [06:10] There you have it! [06:30] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Backlinko ClickFlow Leave Some Feedback:   What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.   Connect with Us:  Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your

0:14.2

instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:18.6

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0:50.6

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel. And today we're going to talk about a case study done, it's a collaboration done with Backlinko and yours truly. Basically this is the organic click-to-rate

1:04.0

lessons on 5 million Google search results and Neil's going to have a lot to

1:08.5

chime in on as well. This is a fairly new post that won't be new at this point, but this was done in August 27th, 2019.

1:18.0

And basically the title is, we analyze 5 million Google search results and here's what we learned about organic

1:23.7

click-through rate. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to read off a couple of stats and

1:26.9

basically Brian was able to pull kind of from the click flow data that we have and

1:31.0

then I'm curious to kind of get kneeled thoughts we can kind of go back and forth on this so that would be the exercise of this podcast so there is a summary of key findings here so basically you know we wanted to understand organic click-through rates a little better.

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