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Google Releases Two New Ad Formats: Their Role in Vertical Search

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Although standard search engines report billions of searches globally every day, we have also been watching the rise of vertical search. These types of searches deliver a more precise experience, helping users zero in on what interests them specifically.

Users employ vertical searches when they use platforms such as TripAdvisor, Zillow, Consumer Reports, Amazon, Reddit, SlideShare, and any other of the number of different platforms that cater to a specific need or asset type. In the standard form of search--the horizontal format--users would see results from a search that explored their topic from several different angles. The goal of a vertical search is to find a specific type of information.

These searches provide users with a better, more intent-driven user experience. It becomes easier for them to find what they seek. Google has taken notice of these trends, particularly as it ties into their theme of micro-moments.

Say, for example, you want to purchase a pair of snow boots. A horizontal search might include information about finding the right pair of snow boots, ads for boots, or information about the different types. A vertical search understands that most people searching for "snow boots" will want to purchase them. In its efforts to cater to vertical search, Google lays out the current SERP for this query to include ads at the top, listings consisting of sites to buy boots, and the local search results for places to go and buy the boots at a brick-and-mortar location.

Example of a vertical search new ad format - brightedge

We have seen evidence of Google’s investment in creating a vertical search on the SERP from a few different directions.

The rise of the vertical search on Google and new ad formats

Google’s attention to user intent has led to a rise in the use of universal elements to create vertical SERP layouts. The SERPs people see, including the number of ads and their formats, the number of images, videos, news items, Quick Answers, and text results all depend upon what Google perceives as their user intent.

Google’s algorithm analyzes what the user most likely will want to see. It can then arrange the search results according to the likely intent, placing a greater emphasis on the specific types of content most likely to help the user rather than returning a broad list of content types.

Over the past nine months, we at BrightEdge have also detected a large increase in the number of videos that appear on the SERP--they appear 47% more often than 1 year prior. This increase leads to more individualized SERPs tailored more precisely to the needs of the user.

new ad format for vertical search layouts - brightedge

Google has also supported vertical search marketing through the release of two new ad formats. These new ad formats will allow brands to create ads that fit more precisely into these user needs and create vertical searches that will help customers find what they seek faster.

Google's new ad formats and their role in vertical search

Google has now released two new ad formats that will further help to differentiate their vertical searches.

New ad formats to showcase video ads

Google rolled out their showcase ads last year in a multi-image shopping ad format. When users on the SERP clicked on the ad, they were brought to a Google-hosted landing page that included promotions, descriptions, and a few of the products that the advertiser included on their product feed. Google displays these ads in response to broad queries.

rands do not have to pay unless a user clicks through from the expanded Google landing page to the business' website or spends more than 10 seconds looking at the expanded ad page.

Google announced that these ads have been successful. The search engine claims that they drive 3.6 times higher CTR than other types of ads and receive 20% more conversion credit in a first-click attribution model. The design of the ads targets top-of-the-funnel prospects. Consider some of the broad product queries that people might make, such as “boots” or “backpacks.” Through the showcase ads, brands can upload multiple images that fit into a particular query. When the prospect clicks on one of the images, they will then be able to see the other applicable images that the brand offers, guiding them along the decision-making process.

Now, Google has released new ad formats, allowing videos in showcase ads. These will follow a similar format but allow videos to be displayed in the featured image position. When a user clicks on one of these ads, they will similarly be brought to a Google-hosted landing page. On this page, the user will be able to view a few products from the advertiser.

Google's new ad formats include video in showcase ads - brightedge

New ad formats for image ads

The image ads will be a pilot program that Google has just announced. The search engine reports that 1/3 of holiday shoppers generally look at images of products before shopping in a store. These ads will allow brands to target these shoppers by creating promotions that specifically target people looking for particular types of images on publisher sites.

For example, people visiting a popular fashion blog, such as This Time Tomorrow, will be able to see ads that promote visually similar products. Over the next year, Google plans to continue to roll out new ways to use the new image searches, including new ad formats that will be displayed directly within Google Image Search.

Google's new ad formats includes shoppable image ads - brighetdge

The new ad formats will appear largely on the screen and products will include labels with the prices as well as tags that announce their status as a ‘sponsored’ image. When the user clicks on the tag icon on this image, they will be able to see several product ads.

How brands should take advantage of these new ad formats

The ability to use video in your ads will allow you to capitalize on the popularity of this content format online. According to Google, nearly 66% of shoppers say that online video helps them come up with ideas for their next purchases. Ninety percent of online users also say that videos on YouTube have given them ideas for new products and services that they might find interesting.

People appreciate the videos because of the visual components and the ability to provide a more personalized appearance-- you feel as though someone is speaking to you.

The new ad formats are designed to help brands take advantage of the lifestyle trends on shopping habits. Today’s buyers tend to be strongly persuaded by online influencers and similar personalities. By creating ads that fit well with some of these blogs and other publishers, everyone can work together to create a seamless experience for the prospective customer.

People today have begun to turn increasingly towards vertical searches as the ability for channels to serve up increasingly personalized results continues to improve. Google continues to look for ways to serve their users interested in these precise results. Their introduction of these two new ad formats will help to create an improved shopping vertical for those interested in finding new products to purchase, just in time for the holiday season.

Likewise, using a comprehensive SEO platform will keep you on top of the changes and evolutions in organic search.

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Although standard search engines report billions of searches globally every day, we have also been watching the rise of vertical search. These types of searches deliver a more precise experience, helping users zero in on what interests them specifically. Users employ vertical searches when they use platforms such as TripAdvisor, Zillow, Consumer Reports, Amazon, Reddit, […]

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新Google Search Console:モバイルユーザービリティーとリンクレポート 【Erik Newton 2018年8月27日】

Googleは新Google Search Console (GSC)に新機能を追加する旨を先日発表しました。

新GSCはベータ版で2017年末に少数のユーザーを対象に公開され、2018年初めに全ユーザーを対象に提供開始されました。ベータ版では、検索パフォーマンス、インデックスカバレッジ、AMPステータス、求人情報などの人気機能が利用可能でした。Googleは引き続き新たな機能の追加を予定していると考えられています。ちなみに最近追加された機能は、旧バージョンのGSCから引き継がれた機能です。

Features on new Google search console

Googleは、新GSCについて以下のように説明しています。

「新GSCでは、実際にユーザーが実践しやすいインサイトを前面に押し出し、懸案事項に対処するプロセスをわかりやすく紹介するモデルを作成し、完全に新しい状態に作り直しました。」

今回の記事では、新しくなったGoogle Search Console(GSC)に加えられた新しい変更点についてご紹介します。

新GSCに追加された機能

リンクレポート

リンクレポートでは、自社サイトへのインバウンドリンクと自社サイト上の内部リンクのいずれにおいても、Google検索時にどのように表示されるのか簡単に確認することができます。リンクレポートでは、旧バージョンのGSCで提供されていた「サイトへのリンク」機能や「内部リンク」で表示されていたインサイトが組み合わされています。

またリンクレポートを活用することによって以下のような役立つインサイトを確認することができます。

  • 自社ドメインに最も多くリンクを張っているのはどのサイトか?
  • 自社ドメイン上で最も多くリンクを張られているのはどのページか?
  • 自社サイトに向けてリンクを張られている際に使用されているテキスト

Example Links Report from new Google Search Console

リンクレポートが重要な理由

SEOではインバウンドリンク内部リンクが非常に重要な役割を果たしています。

インバウンドリンクの状況を参照することによって、Googleは他のユーザーがサイトをどのように捉えているのか把握しています。評判が高く価値があると考えられているサイトは、他のサイトよりも獲得しているインバウンドリンクの量が多いと考えられています。

質の良いリンクを獲得することによって、サイトへのトラフィック量を拡大することができます。

そもそもサイトにリンクを張るのは、他のユーザーにとってサイト上の情報が役に立つと考えられている証拠です。ユーザーがもっと情報を求めているならば、リンクをクリックするはずですので、さらに多くの読み手をドメイン上に誘導することができます。

内部リンクは、読み手(人間)や検索スパイダーがサイト上をよりスムーズにナビゲーションする後押しをするという役割を果たしています。内部リンクを効果的に備えることによって、今読み手が読んでいるページの他にも関連度が高い新たなページに誘導することができます。このように読み手がサイト上にあるコンテンツをより深く読み進めることによって、読み手とサイトの間に信頼関係が構築されるのです。

また内部リンクを活用することによって、検索エンジンのスパイダーにサイトの構造を効果的に伝えることができます。内部リンクを参照することによって、スパイダーは様々あるページの関係性を把握することができ、コンテンツの質や構造をよりよく理解することができます。結果的に検索結果ページでのランキング状況の改善につながります。また、内部リンクを張ることによって、スパイダーが特定のページを見落とすことのないよう事前対策することができ、クロールされるたびに、必要なすべてのページが適切にインデックス化されるようになります。

モバイルユーザービリティー レポート

新Google Search Console(GSC)に備わっているモバイルユーザービリティー レポートには、旧バージョンのレポートで表示されていたエラー名と同じものが使用されています。またモバイルユーザービリティー レポートには、新しい機能が加えられ、GSCユーザーは検証やリンデックスを再度依頼することができるようになります。サイトのモバイルユーザービリティーに関してGoogleが何らかのエラーを発見し、指摘されたエラーを修正したら、Googleに対して再度クロール実施することを依頼することができます。最近検索アルゴリズムではモバイルのかなり重視されていますので、モバイルユーザービリティーで指摘されたエラーを出来る限り素早く修正することが極めて重要になります。

Example of mobile usability report on new Google Search Console

近年Googleは、何よりモバイルユーザーに重点を置いています。Googleはスマートフォンの普及率に着目して、多くの国ではコンピューターの台数よりもスマートフォンの保有数が上回っていることをしっかりと把握しています。

インターネットにアクセスするのにモバイル端末を使用しているユーザーの多さを考えると、ユーザーがモバイル端末で自社サイトを使用するのに問題がないよう確実に対処することが求められます。Googleのモバイルユーザービリティーで推奨されているようなページに仕上がっていない場合は、使用しているフォントサイズが小さすぎてユーザーがページの拡大を強いられたり、画面上にページ全体が表示されなかったりするため、ユーザーエクスペリエンスに悪影響が出る可能性があります。

モバイルユーザービリティー レポートが重要な理由

過去数年を振り返ってみると、Googleがいかにモバイルユーザーにとっての使いやすさを重視しているかが明らかに分かります。約3年前の2015年4月のアップデートをきっかけに、モバイル端末での使いやすさがランキング要素として導入されました。また2018年初めには、モバイルファーストのアルゴリズムの使用が開始され、検索結果ページ上でのランキングを決定する際にモバイル版のサイトをまず参照していることが明らかになりました。

この流れを考慮すると、モバイルユーザビリティー レポートを活用することによって、ユーザーにとって重要な情報を参照することができ、自社サイト上にモバイル端末での閲覧時にエラーがないよう再三にわたって確認することができます。モバイルでのサイト閲覧が難しくなるようなエラーがある場合は、ランキング状況が悪化し、今後ビジターとなる可能性がある人々のユーザーエクスペリエンスにも悪影響を与えることに繋がります。

「モバイルユーザビリティー」とは何を意味するのか?

モバイルユーザビリティーが優れたサイトとは、何か別のことをしながら検索を行うようなユーザーにとってもスムーズな検索実施を可能にします。

ページの読み込み時間や、テキスト、画像、その他ページ上に表示させる様々なコンテンツについて綿密かつ適切に表示方法を考えることが重要になります。何よりも、モバイル端末でサイトを閲覧するユーザーにもページが適切かつスムーズに表示されることを心がけましょう。小さなフォントサイズや過度に装飾的なで読みにくいページはモバイルユーザーにとっては不親切な存在となり、モバイル端末では表示されない動画や画像と同様にユーザーエクスペリエンスを悪化させる原因となってしまいます。

また、使用するボタンの種類にも気を付けましょう。モバイル端末を使用しているユーザーは通常指でナビゲーションしますので、メニューや矢印などのナビゲーションに関するボタンは、サイズや他のボタンとの間隔を考慮し、ユーザーがクリックしたいと思った場所を適切にクリックできることが必須です。

モバイルフレンドリーを構成する要素として、何か別のことをしながら検索を行っているユーザーに、適切な情報を提供することができるようなレイアウトやコンテンツ作りが重視されています。例えば、Googleによると、スマートフォンを使用して検索を実施する94%の人が、ローカルに関する情報を探していることが分かっています。このように、モバイル端末を使ってローカルに関する情報を検索するユーザーの期待に応えることができるようなコンテンツを作成することができれば、おのずとエンゲージメント率は高まるはずです。

Googleは、今後も引き続きユーザーエクスペリエンスをさらに高めることを追求していきます。この一環として、各サイト運営者が作成するコンテンツの利便性を高めるために活用できる各種様々なツールも提供されるでしょう。このようなツールによって、自社サイトのパフォーマンスをより正確に把握することができ、またBrightEdgeのプラットフォームをかつようすることによって、さらにパフォーマンスを改善するためにどのようなアクションをとることができるのか明確にすることができます。

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Search, Content, & Customer Experience: Countdown to Share 2018

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Get ready! We are only two weeks away from the return of the Share San Francisco on October 9-10 at the beautiful Westin St. Francis in the heart of the city. BrightEdge is delighted to host some of the industry’s most iconic brands and thought leaders on the final stop of this year’s Global Insights Tour. Following on from the success of Share New York and Share London, search and content marketers are all set to convene to share insights to help elevate SEO performance.

Search, Content, and the Customer Experience

The search landscape is constantly evolving, and staying on top of all the changes is vital for marketers who seek a competitive edge. This year’s theme is Search, Content, and the Customer Experience. The BrightEdge team has been hard at work shaping an agenda that explores the importance of understanding customer intent, utilizing AI insights, and harnessing the potential of machine learning automation. At BrightEdge, our mission is to inspire and deliver the best performance for our customers by becoming an integral part of the digital experience. The Share Global Insights Tour focuses on just that by giving you actionable insights that help power your personal and professional performance. The Share San Francisco agenda features speakers from Google, Microsoft, Cisco, NBC, BlackRock, Amway, Kenneth Cole, and Move.com.

What You Will Learn

Inspirational Keynotes

Powering the Customer Experience Through Search In his keynote, BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu will discuss the unprecedented opportunity for marketers in an AI-first world to connect data and deep learning with content and campaigns to power the customer experience. Sport is a Business, Business is a Sport Olympian Derek Redmond will discuss his journey after a serious mid-race injury. Lauded as NBC’s third top-Olympic-moment ever and mentioned in a public speech by Barack Obama, Derek Redmond is a top motivational speaker whose content is certain to inspire you.

Innovative Industry Panels

Elevating the Role of SEO to the C-Suite You will walk out of this session with specific examples and practical, how-to advice for communicating the value of search to the C-suite. The Search Frontier In this star-studded panel of industry panelists, experts will cut through the hype surrounding future trends and explore AI, Content Performance, and Paid Search and provide real, practical advice on how attendees can continue becoming high-performing marketers ready for emerging opportunities.

Imaginative Breakout Tracks

Technical SEO for and by Technical SEOs Stay ahead of the constantly changing search landscape with the BrightEdge platform. In this session, speakers will go deep into how to apply the latest innovations to the current challenges facing advanced SEO. Building the Roadmap for SEO Success In this session, speakers will walk attendees through a tried-and-true Marketing Performance Framework methodology. Marketers will learn how to conduct the initial site assessment, identify technical and content gaps, and structure reporting. Elevating the Role of SEO You will come away from this session with actionable strategies to gain buy-in and investment on the critical role that SEO plays across the entire marketing technology stack. Small Teams, Big Impact Hear success stories about how search data can be used to increase discoverability and improve the performance of other digital marketing channels. This session will demonstrate how to replicate these successes.

BrightEdge Training and Certification at Share SF!

In addition to the main content lineup, attendees can join the half-day BrightEdge Training Program on Tuesday, October 9. The schedule includes a welcome lunch, platform training, and a cocktail reception afterwards. BrightEdge training and certification will show you how to utilize the power of the BrightEdge platform to uncover new opportunities, optimize content, and measure the results. This year we are offering two courses: Introductory and Intermediate . This is an excellent opportunity for BrightEdge customers to build new skill sets that help elevate success in their organization. Book your seat here!

Don’t miss the BrightEdge “Edgie” Awards

brightedge edgie awards logo The finale of Share San Francisco will include our ever-inspiring Edgie Awards. Marketers from top-tier companies across industries have already delivered remarkable achievements in 2018, and these awards will recognize their results and business acumen. Past award winners include IBM and L’Oréal. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with all nominees, finalists, and winners during an exclusive networking and cocktail session. Edgie Awards winners at Share18 London BrightEdge Edgie Awards winners at Share18 London

Seats are Going Fast!

As we enter the final countdown to Share San Francisco we would encourage you (if you have not already) to register now as capacity is limited. We look forward to seeing you at Share! share18 global insights tour cta banner

Get ready! We are only two weeks away from the return of the Share San Francisco on October 9-10 at the beautiful Westin St. Francis in the heart of the city. BrightEdge is delighted to host some of the industry’s most iconic brands and thought leaders on the final stop of this year’s Global Insights […]

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Page Load Speed Signal Weight Increase & Mobile-First Index Roll Out

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What's the news?

Last week, marketers across the community received notices that informed them that Google was switching their domain to mobile first indexing. BrightEdge received this notice last Wednesday.

"Mobile-first indexing enabled for https://www.brightedge.com/ To owner of https://www.brightedge.com/, This means that you may see more traffic in your logs from Googlebot Smartphone. You may also see that snippets in Google Search results are now generated from the mobile version of your content.
Background: Mobile-first indexing means that Googlebot will now use the mobile version of your site for indexing and ranking, to better help our (primarily mobile) users find what they're looking for. Google’s crawling, indexing, and ranking systems have historically used the desktop version of your site's content, which can cause issues for mobile searchers when the desktop version differs from the mobile version. Our analysis indicates that the mobile and desktop versions of your site are comparable."

Back in 2016 Google first detailed its plan to change the way its search index operates and how it would eventually use the mobile version of a website’s content to index its pages. On page speed, Google further explained, “Related, we recently announced that beginning in July 2018, content that is slow-loading may perform less well for both desktop and mobile searchers.”

What does mobile-first indexing mean for your company?

Mobile-first indexing means that when a site has a different URL for desktop and mobile, Google is crawling and indexing content based on the mobile site first and then primarily using those results for both mobile and desktop SERPs. If a site is responsive, there will be no change in the indexing.

As the number of mobile users continues to grow so too does the need to optimize specifically for the customer experience on mobile. The mobile SERP has become increasingly contextual, displaying different layouts depending on the search query, the location from where the search is performed, and user’s past search behaviors on that device. In fact, this is how Google improves its own customer experience for its search users.

BrightEdge Research has found that during the mobile-first indexing calibration period, rank for the same queries--across mobile and desktop--was different for 79% of searches. And that 35% of the time the content from a domain that ranks highest is a different page in mobile than in desktop results. This is a topic that BrightEdge has been tracking and reporting on since the big mobile update of April 2015. We will continue to monitor the degree of alignment and difference in desktop and mobile results after this mobile-first rollout.

With these changes, brands should continue to focus on 3 primary objectives to succeed with the mobile-first indexing:

  1. Quality. Quality content is authoritative and engaging.
  2. Relevance. Relevant content effectively addresses people’s needs and questions. Increasing the mobile orientation of your content, for example, place awareness, will make it more relevant to mobile users
  3. Customer experience. Customer experience on the site has to do with design and performance. For mobile, page load speed is a major factor in a good user experience as well as having a low bounce rate from your page back to the SERP. Google also recommends AMP-enablement for all sites, which can be both a customer experience and speed factor.

Quality, relevance, and customer experience all work together to entice users to click on your SERP results and then keeps users engaged on your site. Content creators, SEOs, UX designers, and site architects need to consider and verify the content and user experience on mobile to make sure it is well optimized. For example, they need to make sure to check and optimize the page load speed on both devices.

Consumers have gone mobile

There is no question now that every business has to consider their marketing strategies on all device types. Increasingly, more consumers (and B2B customers) turn to mobile devices to engage with brands throughout the customer journey via researching on a mobile device.

  • For many industries, mobile traffic from organic has surpassed desktop traffic; the latest BrightEdge research has found that on average 62% of the website traffic now arrives from either mobile or tablet devices.
  • According to Think with Google, 93% of people who perform research on mobile devices will go on to make a purchase. Furthermore, mobile drives or influences over 40% of revenue for leading B2B organizations.

In recent years consumers are no longer just researching on their mobile devices, but are also starting to convert at higher rates on mobile. These mobile users want to see quality websites--mobile users who do make a purchase through their devices will visit the website for the brand an average of 6 times before they hit “buy.” It is imperative that brands track the proportion of mobile and desktop traffic to their sites and bias toward the design and experience of the majority so that the buyer's journey is an optimal experience.

Mobile Optimization with BrightEdge

BrightEdge recently released a one-click dashboard template in StoryBuilder, the Mobile-First Dashboard, making it easy to establish a baseline understanding of your mobile performance. This dashboard will show your website KPIs on mobile vs. desktop, and your SEO performance on mobile SERP vs. desktop SERPs. These metrics will help you identify growth opportunities and prioritize your mobile strategy accordingly.

You can also use BrightEdge ContentIQ to identify portions of your website impacting the mobile user experience. ContentIQ performs a site audit crawl as a Google smartphone bot, similar to running a mobile-friendly test on Google. When you set up the crawl, make sure you also add your mobile domain, or if it is a responsive site--which is recommended--run the crawl on your entire domain. The ContentIQ results will help you identify areas of improvement to make sure your site is ready for the mobile-first indexing era.

See full details in a recent post: how BrightEdge helps with your mobile optimization. 

Resources to help you win with mobile-first indexing

BrightEdge has published a few resources related to mobile optimization. Here is a summary of the top 4 articles that will help you.

  1. Winning mobile with Smart Content and AMP
  2. Mobile SEO marketing
  3. Mobile-first indexing Google
  4. Mobile-first experience

Login to the BrightEdge platform to get started today or request a demo to learn more.

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Enterprise AI with the CIO and CMO: Better together benefits

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Here's a look at how AI is transforming entire enterprises, particularly through the lens of marketing and IT, and why the two teams must work together.

Leverage PPC and SEO Together: Ways to Maximize Performance

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With over 3.5 billion searches made per day, ranking well on the SERP has tremendous power to drive traffic towards your site.

Combine organic and paid search with these tips - BrightEdge

BrightEdge Research tracks channel share and finds that SEO traffic is still the largest trackable channel and in the majority at 53% of traffic, which is a number people across the community use to help elevate SEO to the C-suite to secure more support and resources.

48% of queries, however, also have paid ads that appear above the organic site results, so brands that neglect to integrate their organic and paid search strategies will lose out on tremendous potential for attracting the attention of prospects.

As brands compete for attention on the SERP, it has become increasingly common for organizations to invest in PPC. There was a 24% growth year over year in ad spend in 2017. Brands who don't carefully develop integrated campaigns run the risk of being left far behind.

Five ways you can integrate organic and paid search to drive greater success online:

  1. Use paid search to test organic keywords
  2. Use organic keyword research to find good paid keywords to target
  3. Use paid to raise traffic and attention for seasonal or new content
  4. Use paid search to target hard-to-reach keywords
  5. Use organic content to build stronger paid campaigns
  6. Use paid and search together to maximize your presence on the SERP

Use paid search to test organic keywords

Raising your rankings with organic keywords requires considerable effort. You need to not only develop content but also promote the content across various channels and platforms to raise its visibility.

Strong SEO also requires meeting various optimization goals and using technical efforts to improve its visibility on the search engines.

Before you invest your time and energy in this process, many brands find it helpful to first research and see if the keywords will bring in the desired return. You can leverage Instant to deep dive into relevant keywords you should optimize for. PPC can be an excellent asset for this research.

Develop a bit of content and set up paid search campaigns to test the receptiveness of the target audience. Since paid ads will have a prominent display on the SERP when they appear, you can be confident that your site will be visible for the target keyword. You can then gauge the interest of the audience based on how they respond to the ad.

If you get a lot of clicks, for example, but also a high bounce rate and a low conversion rate from your effort, then you have a reasonable idea that your site and content might not align well with the user intent for this keyword. 

On the other hand, if you see an outstanding response to your site and content, then you can feel confident throwing your resources behind an organic search campaign centered around this theme. This will help you better invest your resources moving forward.

Use organic keyword research to find good paid keywords to target

You can use your organic keyword research to find good paid keywords to build your campaigns. Using platform features like Data Cube can provide greater insight than just for your organic search campaigns. You can also use them to create PPC strategies. Leverage Data Cube for PPC and SEO success with these tips - BrightEdge

Use Data Cube to find relevant keywords and base you interest around the search volume. You can also research the keyword further to see what types of content appears on the page for that particular term, as well as how many ads appear at the top of the page. This will help you create a list of keywords that will provide the most value for your brand.

Use paid to raise traffic and attention for seasonal or new content

Many brands need to produce seasonal or new content for various new products or seasonal events. Producing content and then earning rankings on the search engine high enough to capture a significant portion of the relevant traffic within a very short period, however, can be very difficult. The task can feel nearly impossible for smaller brands who do not have sites carrying an immense amount of domain authority.

PPC can help fill in this gap. You can use paid search strategies to raise the prominence of your site for high-value keywords. This will help you attract traffic and engagement to the page earlier than you would have relying solely on organic.

Since a well-qualified paid search campaign also brings in relevant traffic, your efforts can also help to further boost the organic rankings of the material.

Use paid search to target hard-to-reach keywords

There are more than a billion websites online. This means that nearly every industry has intense competition online. This competition renders some keywords particularly difficult to rank highly for. You likely have encountered some keywords that are highly relevant for your target audience, but the sites that rank well for these terms are well established. Finding ways to surpass these keywords in organic will be nearly impossible.

Paid search, however, can help to achieve this goal. Between one and four ads will be shown at the top of the SERP for most queries. This means that PPC will increase your visibility on the SERP for those hard-to-reach keywords.

You will be able to gain the clicks and traffic that would likely have not been possible without a solid paid strategy. 

Use organic content to build stronger paid campaigns

Building a strategy in paid search requires a greater upfront investment than organic campaigns. You have to pay for the clicks you receive on each ad. Therefore, as you build your strategy, you want to make sure you invest your money wisely. Use organic search and content strategies to build outstanding content that will drive your paid search campaign.

Just like any other type of click, when a potential customer clicks on an ad, they want the content on that page to answer their need. Brands already know about the importance of building high-quality content to meet the needs of their organic campaigns, but those same strategies also need to apply to the paid campaigns.

Create material that addresses the likely pain point of someone making that particular search. Use the keywords regularly in the content so that the site visitor knows immediately that the content has relevance for them. Use images, lists, bullets, and subheadings to make the content look appealing and interesting.

Use organic and paid search together to maximize your presence on the SERP

The key to both paid and organic search lies in visibility on the SERP. When you use them together, you can maximize your visibility and presence.

  • Align the language you use across your organic and paid search strategy. Keep the messaging consistent so that users recognize you between channels.
  • Leverage the two together to drive traffic towards content. Even if you achieve page one ranking for a particular valuable keyword, a paid ad on that keyword can still boost visibility, particularly since most clicks go towards the links at the top of the SERP.
  • Use PPC to drive content engagement on other channels. PPC does not only live on the search engines. It also can help on the different social platforms, driving clicks towards your content through social channels.
  • Use the two together to capitalize on user intent. Google has focused over the past few years on deciphering the user intent of people making searches. This explains why the SERP can vary widely from search to search with the number of ads, visual content, and articles that appear. As you create your organic and PPC campaigns, consider carefully the intent of of users for those keywords and create all your material to align with these needs. You can leverage Market Insights to better understand data intent and insights into market trends.

Paid and organic search are two important tools for any marketer looking to increase their presence on the SERP. Understanding how these two interact will allow you to integrate these two strategies and build stronger campaigns, driving greater traffic towards your website. 

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