This is part of the cheat sheet called Campaign Tips and Tricks
Optimizing your CTR (click-through rate) is a great way to improve your results. This can be done by editing your title tags, meta descriptions and images.
Your title tags are the most important on-page SEO element. They’re what show up as the clickable link in the search results.
Here are some tips to optimize your title tags:
Keep them short and sweet
Title tags should be 60 characters or less. Longer title tags get cut off in the search results, which hurts your CTR.
Use keyword-rich phrases
Your title tags should contain your target keyword. But don’t stuff them with keywords. This will hurt your CTR.
Instead, use keyword-rich phrases that sound natural.
Add a call-to-action
Your title tags should also have a call-to-action (e.g., “Download our free eBook”). This tells people what they should do when they click on your result.
Meta descriptions are the short description under your title tag in the search results.
Here are some tips to optimize your meta descriptions:
Keep them short and sweet too
Meta descriptions should be 155 characters or less. Longer meta descriptions get cut off in the search results, which hurts your CTR.
Focus on benefits rather than features
Focus on benefits rather than features
Many businesses focus on features rather than benefits. However, when it comes to marketing, customers are interested in the benefits of your products or services rather than the features.
To market your products or services effectively, you should focus on the benefits they offer to your customers. For example, if you’re selling a new type of toothpaste, you should focus on the benefits it offers, such as being able to clean teeth better or being more gentle on the gums.
Don’t make false claims
When marketing your products or services, it’s important that you don’t make any false claims. If you do, you could end up getting into trouble with the law.
For example, if you claim that your new product can help people lose weight, you need to be able to back up this claim with evidence. If you can’t, you could be accused of making false claims and could end up being sued.
Make sure your images are relevant to your page's topic.
This means that the images should be related to the text on the page, and contribute to the overall theme.
Use high-quality images that are clear and easy to see.
This means that the images should be sharp and not pixelated, and that they should be a reasonable size.
Use descriptive text for your images that includes keywords for your page.
This means that the text accompanying the image should be well-written and informative, and should include keywords that are relevant to the page.
Make sure your images are sized appropriately for social media sites.
This means that the images should be the correct size for sites like Facebook and Twitter, so that they are not cut off or stretched.
Click-through rate is a great way to measure the success of your SEO campaigns.
The higher your CTR, the more traffic you’ll get from search engines and social networking apps.
To improve your CTR, make sure to optimize your title tags, meta descriptions and images.