Topic: conversion rates
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Close the 8% Mobile Conversion Gap, New Report Shows
Mobile-optimized pages significantly underperform desktop versions, converting 8% fewer visitors despite generating most web traffic, according to an analysis of 57 million conversions. Simplifying landing page language to a fifth to seventh-grade reading level increases conversion rates by 56% c...
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ChatGPT Shopping Is Here: How It's Reshaping Ecommerce SEO
ChatGPT Shopping introduces a conversational AI-driven product discovery channel that bypasses traditional keyword-based search, delivering curated recommendations directly in chat and requiring marketers to adapt for competitive visibility. Product visibility in ChatGPT Shopping relies on organi...
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Optmyzr's 3-Year BFCM Study: Key Seasonality Adjustment Insights
A three-year study found that manual seasonality adjustments for Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns often reduce efficiency, as automated Smart Bidding systems already account for seasonal fluctuations without intervention. Using seasonality adjustments led to significantly higher cost-per-c...
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ChatGPT, LLM Referrals Underperform Google Search: Study
ChatGPT and similar AI search tools generate significantly lower ecommerce conversion rates and revenue compared to Google search, email marketing, and affiliate links, with Google remaining the top performer for commercial outcomes. A study of 973 ecommerce sites showed that ChatGPT accounted fo...
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LLM Traffic Rivals Organic Search for Conversions: New Study
A study found that LLM referrals do not convert significantly better than organic search, with conversion rates of 4.87% and 4.6% respectively, showing no meaningful difference. LLM-driven traffic accounts for less than 1% of total sessions, far below organic search's 32%, limiting its overall im...
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Black Friday's Broken Seasonality Adjustments
Google's Smart Bidding algorithms autonomously detect and respond to holiday conversion surges, making manual seasonality adjustments during Black Friday and Cyber Monday unnecessary and often counterproductive. Applying seasonality adjustments frequently leads to overbidding and inflated costs, ...
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ChatGPT vs. Google: Which Wins at Every User Journey Stage?
ChatGPT and Google serve complementary roles, with ChatGPT excelling in complex conversational tasks and Google dominating straightforward information retrieval. ChatGPT's adoption is surging with significant growth in user visits and longer, more detailed prompts, leading to higher-quality refer...
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2026 Marketing Metrics: How Top Teams Boost Performance
A majority of marketers (65%) are meeting or exceeding goals by focusing on measurable outcomes and revenue-driven metrics, moving away from vanity indicators. Essential KPIs now guiding strategy include Lead Quality/MQLs, Conversion Rates, and Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI), which priorit...
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Black Friday's Google Ads Waste Exposed
Many brands waste marketing budgets on Black Friday by running Google Shopping ads for out-of-stock products, leading to financial losses from non-converting clicks. A study found that 97% of retailers paid for clicks on sold-out items, with ads often running for one to two days after stock deple...
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Master B2B Conversions with YouTube Ads
YouTube is an underutilized platform for B2B lead generation, where its value lies in warming up prospects and improving performance across other marketing channels rather than direct conversions. Case studies show that YouTube campaigns significantly reduced cost-per-lead and improved conversion...
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Organic Search Still Dominates as AI Drives Less Than 1% of Referrals
AI search platforms are growing rapidly but drive less than 1% of website referral traffic and show weak conversion performance. Organic search remains the dominant and most effective channel for conversions and customer acquisition in digital marketing. Marketers should balance investment in pro...
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Google Ads AI Max: Best Times to Use It (And When to Wait)
Google Ads AI Max offers advanced automated campaign optimization, improving reach and conversions but requires alignment with specific advertising goals and operational constraints. AI Max introduces dynamic search matching, automated ad creation, and smart URL routing, trading precision for dis...
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Why Your SEO Is Working But Traffic Is Flat
The rise of AI Overviews in search results has decoupled brand visibility from direct traffic, as users often get answers directly on the results page without clicking through to websites. SEO success should no longer be measured primarily by organic traffic volume; key metrics now include revenu...
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Dynamic Landing Pages: Best Practices, Pitfalls & Testing Tips
Dynamic landing pages enhance PPC performance by personalizing content in real time, significantly boosting conversion rates when aligned with user intent. They excel in intent matching, CTA optimization, and quality score improvement but require specialized platforms and careful execution to avo...
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Slow WordPress Sites: The Hidden SEO & AI Visibility Cost
Page loading speed is a critical, non-negotiable factor for WordPress sites, directly impacting user retention, search engine rankings, and visibility in AI-powered search platforms. Slow websites drastically increase bounce rates and hurt conversions, with Google's Core Web Vitals setting offici...
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2026 Content Strategy: Drive Mentions, Citations & Clicks
Generative AI is shifting digital visibility, making mentions and citations within AI models the new critical levers for trust and revenue, beyond traditional search rankings. User journeys are evolving, with AI covering initial research, leading to growth in high-intent content like pricing page...
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AI's Search Overhaul: 90% of Businesses Fear SEO Decline
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing digital search, causing nearly 90% of companies to worry about maintaining their organic visibility as AI tools become primary information sources. Businesses are responding by investing in AI optimization, with 85.7% planning or already investing...
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Pinterest Tests New Ads to Target High-Intent Shoppers
Pinterest has launched **Top of Search ads**, placing sponsored content in the first ten search results and Related Pins section to connect brands with users actively exploring ideas. These ads target shoppers during discovery, leveraging that 96% of searches are unbranded, and have shown a 29% h...
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Unlock More Qualified Leads with Buyer Intent & Expert Outreach
B2B success now depends on quality lead generation, focusing on identifying ready-to-buy prospects through personalized outreach rather than pursuing large quantities of generic leads. Buyer intent data is crucial for identifying genuine purchase signals by tracking specific prospect behaviors, e...
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AI Search: From Volume to Value
Digital discovery is shifting from high traffic volume to more meaningful engagement, with AI creating fewer but higher-value interactions that occur later in the customer journey and signal stronger purchase intent. AI-powered search is rapidly growing, with large language models becoming a majo...
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Apple Expands Ad Slots in App Store Search Results
Apple is expanding App Store advertising by adding multiple ad slots per search, starting in the UK and Japan on March 3rd before a global rollout by month's end. Advertisers cannot control or bid on specific placements, making creative relevance, keyword strategy, and conversion tracking more cr...
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4 PPC Takeaways That Transform Ecommerce Campaigns
Performance Max campaigns are highly effective for ecommerce due to their reliance on high conversion data, requiring optimization of product feeds, strategic segmentation, and accurate conversion tracking for best results. Amazon Ads excels in driving direct sales with high conversion rates and ...
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ChatGPT Atlas Browser Poses Ad Budget Threat via Fake Clicks
AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas generate fake ad clicks that are indistinguishable from human activity, threatening marketing budgets and distorting performance analytics. These browsers operate on frameworks like Google Chrome, making them appear as legitimate human visitors and leading t...
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Amazon's Rufus AI Chatbot Boosted Black Friday Sales
Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus significantly boosted Black Friday sales, with shopping sessions using it seeing a 75% day-over-day purchase increase, far outperforming sessions without it. The adoption of AI tools for holiday shopping surged, with AI-driven traffic to retail websites skyrocketing 805%...
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