CPA高騰に悩む皆様に伝えたい。
【CPAが低い会社が見ている“クリック後データ”】
多くの会社はCVRと離脱率だけ見ますが、
CPAを下げている会社は「行動データから感情を読む」ところまで見ています。
① 検索クエリの裏側にある不安/期待を言語化
② 広告訴求とLPの“意図ズレ”を発見・修正
③ 行動データ×心理から打ち手を設計
これが大切。
詳細は画像にまとまっています。
「流入はあるのにCPAが合わない」「クリック後に離脱される」LPや記事の見直しに使ってください。
As an SEO specialist who audits and runs an agency, I have seen firsthand SO much decimation from Google's practices and advancements in AI.
Google is killing off the value of exchange, now they've digested the web & trained their models, they have far less need to serve the results they once did for the exchange of value.
Now, they are PROACTIVELY pushing organic out of the way - JUST AI OVERVIEWS + blended sponsored results alone have done untold damage to hundreds of millions of websites.
Google WANTS PAID CLICKS, it wants USERS TO STAY in the ecosystem and not to click away.
But where do webmasters go from here?
After years of seamingly unending punishment (Google HCU, Blended Core Updates, AIOs and then Blended Sponsored Results) - it's FAR HARDER to get clicks.
Initially - it was easy to say that it only really ate into informational traffic - but, not only is that not true, but its where a lot of "pre-purchase" buyers go before deciding.
We can call Google's incessant push on Gemini, AIOs and AI Mode progress, but, we should also see it for what it is - another corporate giant who stands to profit from the losses of tens of millions of websites/businesses globally.
It's clear, Google is going more and more towards PAY TO PLAY.
Some may call it progress, others call it greed, but let's be real here..........
I see more SEOs bickering over GEO or giving themselves new titles "AI Experts" so they can muscle in on the tiny % share of traffic that comes from AI vs the ONCE large plethora of traffic that was available to SEOs.
The thing is, Google has NO shame whatsoever.
Look at the untold damage they've done to businesses globally - look at the carnage of Helpful Content - and what did millions of webmasters end up having to contend with?
Decimated CTRs as AIOs rolled out - rechurning peoples content with minimal / no proper source citation or anything meaningful enough to garner a click.
LLM traffic isn't going to account for a FRACTION of the traffic that Google has systemically taken away by entrenching more and more users in "in-page" features be it an AIO or AI MODE.
It's not that SEO isn't viable, it 100% still is, but the effort to get a click is HARDER at a time businesses are battling with touch economic climates, shrinking budgets + shiny object syndrome with AI.
I love SEO, but honestly, for the first time in my 25+ years in this industry, I can see the first cracks appearing in viability when Google is shifting more and more towards pay to play.