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How to integrate user-generated content into your SEO strategy

Search Engine Land

One activation that is seeing growing prominence for brands is user-generated content (UGC). Understanding UGC Before we delve into its impact on SEO, let’s start with the basics and define what user-generated content actually is. Users are migrating searches to platforms where first-hand experience is more obvious.

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How to use Microsoft Clarity for deeper website analytics

Search Engine Land

Microsoft Clarity is one of the best analytics tools you might not know about. This powerful, free tool enriches your existing analytics and customer profiling, offering deeper insights into user behavior. TL;DR Clarity is a free, no-frills heatmapping and user session recording tool. Google Analytics. Recordings.

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What is User-Generated Content? And Why is it Important?

Hootsuite

Whether you know it or not, both of these examples are user-generated content (UGC). What is user-generated content? User-generated content (also known as UGC or consumer-generated content) is original, brand-specific content created by customers and published on social media or other channels.

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Influencers and User-Generated Content: Making The Customer Journey Smarter

Scoop.it!

As businesses adapt to embrace new technologies, they’ve started to use influencers and user-generated content for marketing purposes. Influencers carry a lot of trust and clout with their followers as user-generated content tends to feel more authentic and shared than corporate messaging.

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Google Analytics 4 bug causes data gaps in reports

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 is allegedly missing data from User Acquisition and Traffic Acquisition reports due to a bug. Additionally, your data is not lost – you can still generate reports on traffic in Exploration reports or Standard reports using a different dimension such as source/medium. What Google is saying.

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5 new features coming to Google Analytics 4

Search Engine Land

Google today announced updates to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The coming months will see improved cross-channel reporting and budgeting, AI-generated insights and some integration with Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Google turns off Universal Analytics July 1. What’s new.

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Web Analytics 101: The Beginner’s Guide That I Live By

Hubspot Marketing

One of my favorite things to do on my personal website is to dig into web analytics. In this guide, I’ll be covering everything you need to know about web analytics, so you can truly understand which data points mean what, interpret your findings correctly, and make data-backed decisions for your website and business.

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