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		<title>5 tips to improve your website&#8217;s CTR in SERPs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramon Ruiz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the main opportunities to increase your site&#8217;s traffic is by improving the CTR percentage.  To do this, the most important thing is that you are already getting impressions in the SERPs and, of course, some traffic on those URLs to be optimized. However, regardless of the position you are occupying in the search&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/5-tips-to-improve-your-websites-ctr-in-serps/">5 tips to improve your website&#8217;s CTR in SERPs</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the main opportunities to increase your site&#8217;s traffic is by improving the CTR percentage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do this, the most important thing is that you are already getting impressions in the SERPs and, of course, some traffic on those URLs to be optimized. However, regardless of the position you are occupying in the search results, if you manage to attract the user&#8217;s attention, the CTR percentage will probably increase and with it the visits. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don&#8217;t mean by this that if you improve your CTR you will also improve your ranking. In fact, John Mueller (Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google) assures that it is not a determining factor for positioning in the SERP rankings, since these are always in motion: </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.34.48-1024x494.png" width="545" height="263" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we do know is that if you improve your CTR % it is very likely that your traffic will also grow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, on one of my sites, I started implementing these 5 tips in the first week of March. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.36.04-1024x428.png" width="533" height="223" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is a website that: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is 2 years old. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Has not been worked from the external links profile. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has no brand searches. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has only been worked onsite with interlinking and content optimization. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The results? From the last week of March I started to notice the growth and, today, comparing the last 3 months vs. the previous period there is a growth of 5.8%:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.38.42-1024x484.png" width="565" height="267" /></p>
<h2><b>What is CTR and why is it so important in SEO? </b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CTR (Click Through Rate) is a metric that determines the percentage of clicks you receive in search results. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To calculate it, the number of clicks you receive is divided by the number of impressions and the result is multiplied by 100. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, if you receive 60 clicks on a URL that had 1500 impressions, the calculation would be as follows: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">60 / 1500= 0.04 x 100 = 4%</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although you could do it manually, it is quite easy to obtain this calculation thanks to the Google Search Console tool. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entering the &#8220;Performance&#8221; tab you will see that on the right side, at the top, you will have the following data: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clicks</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CTR</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average position. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By default the clicks and impressions will be activated, so you will only have to click on &#8220;CTR&#8221; to see your history. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.40.17-1024x435.png" width="559" height="237" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But why is it so important in SEO? Users have several options to choose which website to enter when they search on Google or other search engines. You don&#8217;t need to be in the first place to get their attention: if you manage to match their search intent and catch their attention, the user will be yours. </span></p>
<h2><b>5 tips to improve the %CTR of your website in the SERPs </b></h2>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;">1. Identify opportunities to improve %CTR using Search Console</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can detect opportunities using Google Search Console as your main tool.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do this, activate Impressions, Clicks, and CTR in the top panel. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, follow the next steps: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go to the &#8220;Pages&#8221; tab in the bottom section.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Filter the URLs with the highest number of impressions. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See which URL&#8217;s have a %CTR below your average. In my case, below 11%.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Export this data and keep only the URLs with a low %CTR. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Examine how these URLs appear in the search results for the queries in which they are positioned. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having all this you will have already detected the URLs with more possibility of improvement.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.45.43-1024x808.png" width="477" height="376" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the CTRs highlighted in yellow have a good amount of impressions, but few clicks. This is where we can implement other recommendations such as the ones I will mention below. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. Implements structured data (Schema.org)</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Structured data, also called Rich Snippets, is a standard format in which we indicate to the search engine, in a more &#8220;digested&#8221; way, all the necessary information that we show on our pages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Depending on the type of content we show, and depending on the web format we have (News, Ecommerce, Recipes, informative Blogs&#8230;) there are different types of structured data to implement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to this there are more possibilities to position in &#8220;The zero result&#8221;. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When searching for a recipe, before reaching the classic organic results, we come across a module in the &#8220;0&#8221; result. Not only the image is displayed, but also the overall user rating for a recipe. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same happens if we search for very specific products. In the search results we will see that for some queries it shows us: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Price</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stock (available or out of stock). </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reviews.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number of reviews</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Appearing in these modules is possible thanks to the structured data. Here are some resources according to the type of content/services/products you have on your website:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">News: https://schema.org/NewsArticle</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Products (eCommerce): https://schema.org/Product</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recipes: https://schema.org/Recipe</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://schema.org/FAQPage</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blog articles (informative): https://schema.org/BlogPosting</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lists: https://schema.org/ItemList</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> If you want to implement them manually I recommend using TechnicalSEO&#8217;s JSON-LD generator.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To understand how to automate the generation of this structured data click here.  </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Inform about the advantages and benefits you offer to users</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While this is a recommendation that usually goes very well in the world of eCommerce if you apply it creatively on websites with other types of content it can go quite well. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A technique that is often seen in some online stores is to include the discount percentage, payment methods/facilities, and some words like &#8220;offers&#8221; or &#8220;promotions&#8221;. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s see the following example:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1.png"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-6911" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-300x186.png" alt="" width="358" height="222" srcset="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-300x186.png 300w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-1024x635.png 1024w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-768x477.png 768w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-1536x953.png 1536w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-2048x1271.png 2048w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-690x428.png 690w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-1317x817.png 1317w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-800x496.png 800w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-1-1400x869.png 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The URL in the first place of the ranking uses words like &#8220;Cheaper&#8221; in the title, or &#8220;Discounts&#8221;. The use of this language is aligned to the intention of the user, who already from the search is using the term &#8220;offer flights&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, we have already tested with a 100% transactional keyword. But what about other more informative keywords? A good example to show this is the term &#8220;dollar blue&#8221; in Argentina. Although it is a stable search at trend level, being a value that varies from day to day, some media use methods such as: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Include the date in the title and meta description. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mentioning the updated value. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use words like &#8220;today&#8221; or &#8220;updated&#8221;. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is up to you to use your creativity to implement these changes in your titles and meta description to improve the %CTR on your site. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. Emojis and symbols in your Title and Meta description?</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A method that has been applied in different sectors is the use of symbols and emojis to attract clicks from users. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From my point of view, this method does not apply to any type of business. Therefore, before implementing it, think if it fits your brand language and target audience. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do this, you can segment and look at your audience&#8217;s age, gender and interests. Based on this, and the product/service you offer, decide whether it is worth implementing it or not. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In case your answer is a resounding &#8220;yes&#8221;, let&#8217;s see what some SERPs look like with emojis and symbols:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-06-at-12.52.17-1024x644.png" width="507" height="319" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the webs that I usually use to obtain these emojis and symbols are: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://es.piliapp.com/symbol/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://es.piliapp.com/symbol/</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://emojipedia.org/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. Improve your site&#8217;s URL architecture</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This tip is applicable not only to improve CTR but also so that search engines can semantically interpret your content. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A clean URL that corresponds to your internal architecture gives better signals to the user that what they will find in the content is really what they are looking for. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do this: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avoid using numbers and special characters in your URL. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Segment with &#8220;/&#8221; each section of the web according to depth. Example: /sneakers/nike/women/. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avoid dates in your URL. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2.png"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-6912" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-300x201.png" alt="" width="369" height="247" srcset="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-300x201.png 300w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-1024x686.png 1024w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-768x514.png 768w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-1536x1029.png 1536w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-2048x1372.png 2048w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-690x462.png 690w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-1317x882.png 1317w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-800x536.png 800w, https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/blog-2-1400x938.png 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px" /></a></p>
<h2><b>Final Recommendations </b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monitoring before and after the implementations will be essential to see the progress you can have. Therefore, I recommend you to export month by month the CTR % of the URLs to which you have applied the changes and, from there, compare them to see their evolution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have any doubt or want to add any advice, leave it here below in the comments.</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/5-tips-to-improve-your-websites-ctr-in-serps/">5 tips to improve your website&#8217;s CTR in SERPs</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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		<title>How to do all SEO optimizations without a programmer and save time and money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Punto Rojo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[digital marketing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Get quick and easy #SEO optimization from Google Tag Manager (#GTM) with this unmissable how-to guide.  GTM is a tool with many benefits for any online marketing campaign. Ultimately, it changes the way you implement Google Analytics tracking, Google AdWords conversion pixels, or tracking of all types of online advertising, among other things. With this&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/how-to-do-all-seo-optimizations-without-a-programmer-and-save-time-and-money/">How to do all SEO optimizations without a programmer and save time and money</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get quick and easy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/seo?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1345347168834915">#SEO </a></span><b>optimization</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from </span><b>Google Tag Manager</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (#GTM) </span><b>with this unmissable how-to guide.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GTM is a tool with many benefits for any online marketing campaign. Ultimately, it changes </span><b>the way you implement Google Analytics tracking, Google AdWords conversion pixels, or tracking of all types of online advertising</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among other things.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With this resource, the relationship between the IT and Marketing departments of large companies is forever changed. The consequence of its use is a</span><b> streamlining of processes and a consequent simplification of the life of online marketing<a href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/guia-practica-usa-google-tag-manager-para-hacer-mejoras-seo/"> agencies</a> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">such as ours when it comes to maintaining tracking codes and various pixels on numerous websites.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this, in turn, allows us to offer higher quality services with optimal results.</span></p>
<h2><b>What is GTM for?</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This tool allows you to easily and quickly implement tags and code snippets for a website or mobile applications, such as those for traffic analysis and optimizing marketing campaigns.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, HTML code snippets can be implemented or JavaScript elements can be embedded without touching the source code.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Modifications are made to the front end that can be triggered in three different stages:</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page View (when the browser makes a first analysis of the site).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DOM Ready (the browser finished creating the content).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Window loaded (browser loaded content, images, scripts completely).</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An example:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">E-commerce goes out on the weekend with Ahora12 on a site and needs to dynamically modify the quotas of its products for Saturday and Sunday. At the same time, it has a script that raises the number of quotas to embed them in the meta description.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If these scripts are triggered at the same time, the meta description may take the wrong information. In this way, what we need to do is to trigger the dynamic quotas in the DOM Ready to create the content and raise the meta description at the stage of Window loaded, so that, in this way, it raises well and in a staggered way the data in the SERP.</span></p>
<h2><b>Zoom: GTM</b></h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-15-1024x361.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-15" width="533" height="188" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GTM container code snippet has an ID just like an Analytics account has. The nomenclature is always </span><b>GTM-XXXX</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GTM snippet should be pasted into the HTML just after the &lt;body&gt; tag on all pages of the site. Doing this wrong can cause the tags to execute incorrectly.</span></p>
<h2><b>Advantages</b></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Time-saving:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Using GTM allows us to make changes to the tags without touching the source code and without the need to go to the Devs. We need a resource with jQuery and/or JS skills to assemble the tags and load them.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Improved tag management: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We manipulate everything from the GTM container. And we can save the versions of each implementation to rollback at any time.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Improved load time: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Less JS, better load time, better positioning. We clean up the site code and improve performance.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Immediate implementation:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We avoid &#8220;waiting for the next sprint&#8221; and implementation costs for clients who pay hourly fees to system agencies.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><b>How GTM works</b></h2>
<h2><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-01-1024x731.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-01" width="408" height="291" /></h2>
<h2><b>Tags</b></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are triggered by rules set based on variables.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are default tags (Analytics, AdWords, Remarketing, Criteo)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Triggers (Rules)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rules that trigger tags</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are composed of variables defined by the GTM user.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are associated with the event that triggers the tag (Click, Pageview, Timer, etc.).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Variables</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elements that will trigger the trigger (URL, Hostname, Referrer, Event)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are GTM </span><b>default and custom variables (important for SEO).</b></li>
</ul>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-03-1024x692.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-03" width="525" height="355" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Custom HTML is the most important tag for SEO.</span></p>
<h2><b>Triggers and variables</b></h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-04-1024x634.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-04" width="466" height="289" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">URL is the variable that triggers the Tag</span></p>
<h2><b>The default variables</b></h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-05-1024x610.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-05" width="440" height="262" /></p>
<h2><b>Custom variables</b></h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NOTA-BLOG-PPT-06-1024x549.jpg" alt="NOTA BLOG PPT-06" width="439" height="235" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">URL, DOM Element and Lookup Table are the most important.</span></p>
<h2><b>Changes by GTM</b></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title tags</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meta descriptions tag</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Schema and Markup Optimization</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AMP settings</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Headings (h1,h2)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusion of SEO-optimized text (including CSS)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusion of &lt;strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt; tags</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusion of link box</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusion of lists and images</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image attribute optimization</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optimization/correction of canonicals</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meta robots optimization/correction</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optimization/correction of href lang</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HTML redirects</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusion of tracking snippets (for an eventual new site it may be on our side to include GA and Search Console tracking)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Link attribute correction</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><b>What are the limits?</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now that we are beginning to see all the future that this tool opens up for us, we are not going to put limits or an expiration date on it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we have seen in this article, the optimization of page meta tags, which is a very important part of the positioning of a page, can be done without any problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another important point to take advantage of is the markup of product data through Schema, also known as rich snippets. This includes product ratings, product descriptions, information about movies, restaurants, people, and in short, any of the Schema that is commonly used.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And although we obviously cannot develop a website from scratch. What we intended with this post is to test the operation of GTM applied to SEO and start with the most common tags to check the results. Once done, the next step is to continue testing to know the results.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you already tested your website with Google Tag Manager?</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/how-to-do-all-seo-optimizations-without-a-programmer-and-save-time-and-money/">How to do all SEO optimizations without a programmer and save time and money</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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		<title>How to extract data from SERPs for SEO</title>
		<link>https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/how-to-extract-data-from-serps-for-seo/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dario Manoukian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[digital marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[searchengines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/?p=6782</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Searches bring users and users generate sales. This is why Keyword Rankings reports have been done since SEO was born. Having a tool that monitors and allows you to see the general status of the most relevant keywords to your business is essential for any SEO. There are many Keyword Rankings tools that allow you&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/how-to-extract-data-from-serps-for-seo/">How to extract data from SERPs for SEO</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Searches bring users and users generate sales. This is why Keyword Rankings reports have been done since SEO was born. Having a tool that monitors and allows you to see the general status of the most relevant keywords to your business is essential for any SEO.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are many Keyword Rankings tools that allow you to track the positioning of the most relevant keywords for your business. Some of them are paid and others are free. If you are looking for an easy solution to get out of trouble, we developed a simple snippet that allows you to extract all the relevant ranking information for a keyword from a search result page.</span></p>
<p><b>Snippet:</b></p>
<p><strong>var keyword = $(&#8216;input[name$=&#8221;q&#8221;]&#8217;).value</strong></p>
<p><strong>var results = $$(&#8216;div[class=&#8221;r&#8221;]&#8217;);</strong></p>
<p><strong>var date = new Date().toISOString().split(&#8216;T&#8217;)[0];</strong></p>
<p><strong>var content = &#8221;;</strong></p>
<p><strong>for (var i = 0; i &lt; results.length; i++){</strong></p>
<p><strong>var rank = i+1;</strong></p>
<p><strong>var current_url = results[i].innerHTML.match(/&lt;a href=&#8221;([^&#8221;]*)/)[1];</strong></p>
<p><strong>var current_title = results[i].innerHTML.match(/&lt;h3.*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;/)[1];</strong></p>
<p><strong>content += &#8216;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8217; + date + &#8216;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8217; + rank + &#8216;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8217; + keyword + &#8216;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8217; + current_title + &#8216;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&#8221;tdurl&#8221;&gt;&#8217; + current_url + &#8216;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#8217;;</strong></p>
<p><strong>}</strong></p>
<p><strong>with(output = &#8216;&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;link href=&#8221;https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;700&amp;display=swap&#8221; rel=&#8221;stylesheet&#8221;&gt;&lt;style&gt;body{font-family: \&#8217;Open Sans\&#8217;, sans-serif;}table{white-space:nowrap;}td{padding:0 15px;}.tdurl{max-width: 400px;overflow: hidden;text-overflow: ellipsis;white-space: nowrap;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;table width=&#8221;100%&#8221;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Google SERP Extractor&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&#8221;right&#8221;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8221;https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/themes/punto_rojo/img/logo_mini.png&#8221; width=&#8221;200px&#8221;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Fecha&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Rank&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Keyword&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Title&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;URL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#8217;, output += content, output += &#8220;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;&#8221;, window.open()) document.write(output), document.close()</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to run this snippet correctly, it is important to remember that we have to be inspecting the Google SERP we want to analyze. If we load the Google Chrome DevTools (read, &#8220;the inspector&#8221;) in another tab, the code will not work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> As in previous posts, to configure this SEO snippet we have to open the Chrome DevTools and go to the Sources tab. Inside the Sources tab we then go to the Snippets tab. It is likely that you will not see the Snippets tab at once and you will have to click on the two arrows icon to see all the tabs.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-15.14.06-1024x625.png" width="450" height="275" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once we are in Sources &gt; Snippets, we go to &#8220;+ New Snippet&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We name the snippet, paste the code above this post and then press Ctrl + S or ⌘ + S on Mac, and that&#8217;s it!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To run the snippet you have to right click on the script name and click &#8220;Run&#8221;. When you do this, a new tab should open with the following columns&#8230;</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-15.17.14-1024x645.png" width="458" height="288" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The result should be something similar to this&#8230;</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-15.18.09-1024x577.png" width="566" height="319" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The columns listed in the keyword rankings report are:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Date: </b>Shows the date on which the script was run.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Rank: </b>Shows the position in which the result appears on Google</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Keyword: </b>Displays the keyword for which the positioning is being viewed</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Title: </b>Displays the title of the page that ranks for that position</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>URL: </b>Shows the URL that ranks for that position</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the case of the screenshot, 100 rankings are shown because Google Search is configured to show 100 results at a time. If you need to see more than 100 results, this can be achieved by using the<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ginfinity/dgomfdmdnjbnfhodggijhpbmkgfabcmn"> gInfinity extension for Google Chrome</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This data can be copied and pasted directly into a Google Sheet or Excel spreadsheet. Once the file is ready, you can start saving the ranking data to see daily evolutions of both your site and your competitor&#8217;s site. If you just need to see how your site is ranking, you can <a href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/como-ver-el-ranking-historico-de-tus-keywords-gratis/">see the historical data of your keywords up to 18 months ago</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope this SEO Snippet will be useful for your daily optimization routines and that you will be able to carry out a data-driven SEO strategy every time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Until next time and, as always, good rankings!</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/how-to-extract-data-from-serps-for-seo/">How to extract data from SERPs for SEO</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Search intentions: How do you know how your users search?</title>
		<link>https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/search-intentions-how-do-you-know-how-your-users-search/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramon Ruiz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[digital marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[searchengines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/?p=6755</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Google and other search engines have improved their search results over the last few years with the sole purpose of better satisfying users&#8217; search intent. Sometimes they even show the answer to the query before the URLs of third-party websites that rank in the SERPs.  An example of this is the query &#8220;weather&#8221; in which&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/search-intentions-how-do-you-know-how-your-users-search/">Search intentions: How do you know how your users search?</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google and other search engines have improved their search results over the last few years with the sole purpose of better satisfying users&#8217; search intent. Sometimes they even show the answer to the query before the URLs of third-party websites that rank in the SERPs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An example of this is the query &#8220;weather&#8221; in which for some years now Google shows the weather, forecast, and other data about it within the search results (without the need to enter any website). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the same way, the algorithm that calculates and chooses which URL&#8217;s to rank for certain keywords has improved to meet this user search intent. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The question is, are you optimizing your content and website according to the user&#8217;s search intent? Do you know what kind of search intent exists?</span></p>
<h2><b>What is search intent in SEO?</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before defining the search intent in SEO, let&#8217;s see what the search results in Spain show for three keywords: &#8220;best robot aspirator&#8221; and &#8220;buy robot aspirator&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In &#8220;mejores robot aspirador&#8221; shows a zero result with a list of what may be the most outstanding robot aspirators, prioritizing the information over the transaction:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-15.56.24-1024x948.png" width="491" height="454" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, for the second case, just by changing &#8220;mejores&#8221; to &#8220;comprar&#8221; we see that the search results change completely: </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-15.57.29-1024x808.png" width="468" height="370" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can see that in the first place a zero result with the list of products no longer appears and in its place appears e-commerce where, if you click on it, you will be closer to the purchase process. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is it a coincidence? Not at all, Google understands better and better when the user is closer to purchase and therefore &#8220;modifies&#8221; its results to better satisfy the search intent. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therefore, we can define it as &#8220;the will and motivation on the part of the user behind each search engine query&#8221;. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this sense, some practical questions: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For which of the two queries is it better to work with informative content? </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In which of them can you prioritize a list of products with prices and comparisons? </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s see then what are the types of search intent and how to improve the way we approach our content on our website. </span></p>
<h2><b>Types of search intentions</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In theory, we can define the types of search intentions in three types: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Informative: the user wants to obtain specific information on a subject or to complete some research. Example: how to make a paper airplane. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Navigational: in these cases, the user has already defined that he/she wants to use a specific website and navigate it. Example: login to Facebook. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transactional: here the user has already defined his purchase process and is a few clicks away from completing a transaction. Example: buy nike womens pink sneakers.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, it may be too generic to try to incorporate all types of content and searches in these three main blocks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, within the informative, it is not the same to search for &#8220;reset my smart tv&#8221; as it is to search for &#8220;history of the second world war&#8221;. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While both search intentions are solved with information, the way this information is displayed varies for each one: in the first one, Google already shows a step-by-step on how to do the reset, while in the second one it understands that the user will need a more detailed explanation about the Second World War by showing Wikipedia first and then a series of Youtube documentaries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to <a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf">Google&#8217;s Quality Guidelines</a>, we can find: </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">1. Know and Know Simple</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this case, the user&#8217;s query is oriented to obtain information that can be general or specific. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If it is general, we are talking about a &#8220;Know&#8221; search. An example of this could be the query &#8220;Pampita&#8221;: </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-15.59.54-1013x1024.png" width="400" height="405" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being so general, and being a public figure, Google prioritizes news, social networks, and the artist&#8217;s biography. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, if we go to a more specific search such as &#8220;Pampita&#8217;s age&#8221; we would be referring to &#8220;Know Simple&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, for these searches many times Google shows the answer directly in the SERPs:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-16.00.37-1024x760.png" width="426" height="316" /></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. Do – Device action</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do queries are those in which the user wants to make use of some functionality on the Internet. An example of this would be: downloading data/apps or programs, buying something in an eCommerce, or making an online transaction, among others. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other hand, in Device Action, we find interactions that can be done with the device through voice searches. For example: calculate the distance between one location and another while driving. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-16.01.26-1024x721.png" width="597" height="420" /></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Website</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From my side, I can add that these are the type of keyword + brand queries that we usually see in the SERPs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They delimit an action on a specific entity so Google prioritizes the &#8220;brand&#8221; we are including in the keyword. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example amazon sneakers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Depending on how certain keywords are searched we can find perfect or imperfect queries: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.amazon.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.amazon.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imperfect: “amazon usa”. </span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. Visit-in-person</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They have to do with the visit in person to an area, place, or business premises. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example: pizzerias en Avenida Corrientes:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-16.02.38-864x1024.png" width="527" height="625" /></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. Multiple search intent: </span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although there is this previous classification, sometimes the user may have multiple search intentions in the same query. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuing with the last example of &#8220;pizzerias in avenida corrientes&#8221;, the user not only wants to know the location, rating, and opening hours of the pizzerias: perhaps they can read reviews and notes from blogs and press about these places to complement the decision of which one they will go to eat. </span></p>
<p><b>Final Recommendations</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adjusting your content to each of these intentions will not only help you position and get more visits: but it can also improve the usability of the user on your site in terms of sessions and conversion (in the case of eCommerce). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juan González Villa, from <a href="https://useo.es/">https://useo.es/</a> in his article on search intent shares a table that is worth including in our article to define the types of search results related to the types of s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">earch intent.</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/search-intentions-how-do-you-know-how-your-users-search/">Search intentions: How do you know how your users search?</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Keywords: How do you search for products on Google?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Belén Ibarra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Keywords are the words that people use to search in Google. We must use them when generating content for users to understand our products or services and so that they can find us within the first results in search engines. These words show us which are the intentions that a person has when performing a&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/keywords-how-do-you-search-for-products-on-google/">Keywords: How do you search for products on Google?</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Keywords</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are the words that people use to search in Google. We must use them when generating content for users to understand our products or services and so that they can find us within </span><b>the first results in search engines</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These words show us which are the intentions that a person has when performing a search and that is why it is so important to obtain </span><b>positioning in Google</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, the </span><b>selection of keywords</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> should always be oriented to the marketing objectives of the company, and at the same time, be related to the user&#8217;s interests, because from these will emerge the searches made on Google.</span></p>
<h3><b>But how do you know which keywords users are searching for?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To answer this question, we will resort to one of the most popular tools in the digital environment and widely used in SEO: Google Adwords Keyword Planner.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This platform provides us with data directly from Google, remember that in Mexico 98% of the population chooses to use this search engine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the information provided by the keyword planner, we can obtain keywords used by users and the number of monthly searches.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s see an example:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s suppose you have an appliance store, and therefore a variety of products to sell. In the tool we enter as a keyword a product category, such as &#8220;</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">refrigerator</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;, and activate the parameters we consider necessary for the search:</span></p>
<p><img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Imagen-1-300x300.png" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result, the tool will tell us which are keywords related to the search we entered, the average number of monthly searches in Mexico, and other data that may be useful.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Imagen-2-300x212.png" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adwords Keyword Planner will give us hundreds of recommendations on keywords related to &#8220;refrigerator&#8221;. We suggest downloading this information to be able to filter the results based on business objectives. For example, there are brands and models of refrigerators that we may not have available in our store and may not be targeted at the moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having understood this, we can say that we have generated our first </span><b>keyword research</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keyword research allows us to know what and how people search, and how many times a month this search is replicated. This information will be very valuable if we incorporate it into our site.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We must always keep in mind that each company will have a particular strategy in which creativity, experience, and teamwork synergy intervene.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowing now our users&#8217; search intentions, the next step is to </span><b>optimize our website</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, strategically using the keywords we have selected. For this, we must incorporate the keywords in our site by applying them to product names, descriptions, URLs, page titles, etc.</span></p>
<h3><b>What are short and long-tail keywords?</b></h3>
<p><b>Short tail keywords </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">are </span><b>keywords of 1 or 2 terms maximum</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, such as &#8220;refrigerator&#8221;. These usually have a </span><b>large number of monthly searches</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> but with low conversion levels. This happens because when a person searches for a product generically, they are probably still in a research stage and not in a purchase stage.</span></p>
<p><b>Long-tail keywords</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, on the other hand, are a very faithful representation of people&#8217;s tastes and interests. They are composed of more than 3 terms, making the keyword a </span><b>more specific search</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, &#8220;Prices of 29 feet refrigerator in DF&#8221; is a long-tail keyword, composed of 7 words inside, and with not many monthly searches. But, a user who performs it is interested in the product, and is much closer to the purchase, than a user who only searches for &#8220;refrigerator&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the use of long-tail words, it is more likely that the majority of visitors who enter our website will become customers. The </span><b>user that is determined </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">to make a purchase </span><b>tends to specify more and more his search</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to find his </span><b>perfect product!</b></p>
<h3><b> What is stuffing? How to avoid it?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The term </span><b>stuffing</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which means overloading our article or web page with an excessive amount of keywords, is an activity penalized by search engines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will lose positions in the search results or Google will remove our site results or directly remove our site from its ranking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s not forget that it is Google who will determine which companies will be </span><b>positioned on the first page</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and which will be the star that takes the first place.</span></p>
<h3><b> So what should we do with keywords?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Place only the necessary amount of keywords throughout the text and do not saturate it by using them in places where they do not fulfill any function. In other words, we must avoid artificial wording, and avoid making the content of our website look like it was written by a robot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can place our long-tail keyword in the title and then look for variations, long and short tail, throughout the text, always taking into account the keyword research we did at the beginning.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><b>First in Google</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="alignright" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Imagen-3-300x171.png" />When we choose the right keywords, we are more likely to appear in the </span><b>first results of Google</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thus, we will ensure that the user entering our website is a potential buyer who is looking for exactly that.</span></p>
<p><b>By being the first in Google for long-tail keywords</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we will achieve a higher conversion rate.</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/keywords-how-do-you-search-for-products-on-google/">Keywords: How do you search for products on Google?</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Screaming Frog: How to analyze your competitor&#8217;s internal linking strategy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dario Manoukian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 15:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[searchengines]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>For those who don&#8217;t know it yet, Screaming Frog is one of the most useful tools to audit a site for SEO. It consists of an application that crawls a site by entering the initial URL and then each of its links until it has read the entire site. The result is a lot of&#8230;</p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/screaming-frog-how-to-analyze-your-competitors-internal-linking-strategy/">Screaming Frog: How to analyze your competitor&#8217;s internal linking strategy</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those who don&#8217;t know it yet, </span><b>Screaming Frog</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is one of the most useful tools to audit a site for SEO. It consists of an application that crawls a site by entering the initial URL and then each of its links until it has read the entire site. The result is a lot of valuable information about the site, be it URLs, pages with errors, redirects, titles, metadata, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like any tool, some people only use it for basic purposes without knowing that there is a lot of juice that can be extracted from it. In today&#8217;s post, we are going to show you how you can analyze the </span><b>internal linking strategy</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of your competitors. As a consequence, you will be able to take the insights extracted from crawling to optimize your internal linking strategy accordingly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To achieve this, we are going to extract anchor texts from the internal links of a site. It should be noted that there are easier ways to do this with Screaming Frog&#8230; however, today we are going to show you a slightly more advanced method that can also be used to </span><b>read all the HTML tags</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that exist on a page.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our goal is to collect data from the source code of one or more pages. This practice is also known as </span><b>web scraping</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Remember to stay within the terms and conditions of the site whenever you are reading its source code using an application.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s get started! Inside Screaming Frog, let&#8217;s go to the menu </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Configuration &gt; Custom &gt; Extraction</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This section allows you to extract data from the source code of the pages you crawl. If you are using a free version of SF, this option will be disabled. We recommend investing in a full version if you regularly do SEO audits.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-1.jpg" width="372" height="364" /></p>
<h2><span style="color: #339966;"><b>Anchor text benchmarking</b></span></h2>
<p><b>Benchmarking is a practice based on analyzing how your competition behaves to adjust your strategy </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">according to what you have learned. In today&#8217;s case, we are going to study the anchor texts of internal links. To do this, you will need to configure the following regular expression (regex, for friends) in the menu </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">custom &gt; extraction</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<p><b>&lt;a.*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;\/a&gt;</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This snippet captures everything inside &lt;a&gt; tags and reads as follows:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-2-1024x129.jpg" width="761" height="96" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It captures all characters inside each &lt;a&gt; tag regardless of the Html attributes of the tag and stops capturing when the tag is closed. If you are not yet very familiar with Regex, we recommend you do some research online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regex is not the only way to extract information from text. There are other methods such as XPath that work a bit more with the DOM (Document Object Model) of the page. Below we detail the snippet to lift all the &lt;a&gt; tags with XPath.</span></p>
<p><b>//a</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make sure that the option “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">XPath</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">” and “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extract Text</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">” are selected so it extracts only the text and nothing else since some links are associated with image tags.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-3-1024x115.jpg" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether we use a Regular Expression or the XPath, once it is configured we run the crawler so that it starts lifting each anchor text of each link within each page that is read.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once the crawl has been run, to see the results we only have to look at the &#8220;Custom&#8221; tab and then choose &#8220;Extraction&#8221; from the dropdown.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once the crawl has been run, to see the results we only have to look at the &#8220;Custom&#8221; tab and then choose &#8220;Extraction&#8221; from the dropdown.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-4-1024x174.jpg" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note that in addition to the ”extraction” item there are several additional filters. If more than one filter is configured, each of them will appear in its dropdown item. Since we only use the extraction menu, we select the last item in the list.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that&#8217;s it! We can see that </span><b>Screaming lifted all the anchor tags of the links</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This data can be exported to CSV by clicking on the &#8216;Export&#8217; button.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-5-1024x204.jpg" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another method similar to this is to analyze the links in the links instead of the anchor texts. To accomplish this we just need to run the following Regex custom extraction filter in Screaming Frog:</span></p>
<p><b>href=”(.*?)”</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are just a couple of examples of scrapings that can be performed. You may have to scrape other elements such as h3 header tags, spans, hidden divs, custom HTML tags, etc.</span></p>
<h2><span style="color: #339966;"><b>How to graph the results</b></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We already have the data, now let&#8217;s see what insights are born from it. If we pass the CSV we exported to a spreadsheet and clean it up a bit we can put together a </span><b>graph with the number of anchors that are most repeated</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><b>Graph of the most repeated anchor text in our crawl</b></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="" src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-6-1024x733.jpg" width="657" height="471" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To build a chart similar to this one, just follow the steps below:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Within a spreadsheet, list in a single column all the keywords that were collected. Several values will likely appear more than once as there may be more than one link with the same anchor text.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Copy the column and paste it into the column next to it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Select the column and remove duplicates. If you are using Microsoft Excel, you can go to the Data menu &gt; Remove duplicates.<img src="https://puntorojo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screaming-frog-7-1024x154.jpg" /></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are using Google Sheets, you will probably need to download a plugin to remove duplicate values. There are ways to remove duplicates in Google Sheets without using a plugin, but it falls outside the scope of this post.</span></p>
<ol start="4">
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> At this point we have all the terms in one column and then all the terms without duplicates in the next column.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> With a simple COUNTIF* function we can find how many times a single term is repeated in the list of all terms.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Final step, we plot the data to obtain a graph similar to the one above.</span></li>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">*The formula syntax is =</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">COUNTIF</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(range_with_duplicates; keyword_to_search)</span></i></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="color: #339966;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we dig a little, we can find advanced functionalities within Screaming Frog that allow us to know in-depth what our competitors link the most. In addition to this, we can obtain a great amount of information from both our competitors&#8217; sites and our sites.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the advanced features of Screaming Frog that you use the most? Let us know by leaving a comment below and, as always, good rankings!</span></p>
<p>La entrada <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en/screaming-frog-how-to-analyze-your-competitors-internal-linking-strategy/">Screaming Frog: How to analyze your competitor&#8217;s internal linking strategy</a> aparece primero en <a rel="nofollow" href="https://puntorojo.com/blog/en">SEO Blog Punto Rojo</a>.</p>
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