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Semrush Blog | SEO, SEM, AI Search, & Content Strategy

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Technical SEO4 min read

URL Shorteners: How They Differ and Why They Matter

URL shorteners are easy to ignore. You might realize your link was automatically shortened when posting on a social networking site, but you go about your day because it looks good. What many don’t realize, however, is that there is quite a bit of information that goes into URL shorteners. You actually have a choice about which shortener to use and when (and this choice makes a difference). There are many different shortener options, and all come with different features. Depending on the URL shortener your business decides to use, you might have a dashboard that helps you schedule posts or track the success of different posts. This then brings about a list of inevitable questions: How many different URL shorteners are there, what is the best one, how do I get started and what can I gain?

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General SEO3 min read

Introduction to CTR (Click-Through Rate)

CTR stands for Click-Through-Rate. This is the percentage rate at which people click on a particular ad when online. Achieving a high page CTR is essential for achieving PPC success, because it directly affects both the quality score as well as how much a business pays every time someone clicks on their search advert. Are your click-through rates holding you back, or are they high enough? These are some of the questions that bother almost every webmaster.

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Meta Keywords Generator: Get Your Meta Keywords Delivered in No Time

Not too long ago, the Meta keywords tag was very useful in helping pages win on search engines by getting on top of the search engines results page. Unfortunately, since the Meta tags keywords have been abused by unscrupulous webmasters, search engines such as Google and Bing have had to de-emphasize their importance. Still, Meta keywords SEO should not be taken off web pages completely.

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General SEO2 min read

Predict Your Traffic Volumes with Keyword Traffic Estimator

If you want to get more relevant visitors to your website, you should seriously consider search engines as a source for a traffic increase. In order to get more relevant visitors from organic searches, you need to improve your positions for particular keywords that are relevant to your business. But it’s not enough to find keywords that precisely describe your business; it is even more important to determine keywords that will bring traffic to your project.

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Benefits of the Cost Per Click Advertising (CPC) Model

The key to successful performance of any online business is to find a source for highly targeted audiences and getting as many potential customers as possible at the lowest price. In most cases, cost per click advertising would perfectly suit the method for achieving this goal and attracting relevant visitors to any website at a very affordable price per visitor and on very beneficial conditions.