SEO Test Results and Case Studies

Third-party review platforms allow customers to post reviews about your products and services freely. They also provide code snippets that can be installed on your site to display the ratings to visitors. Our customer tested injecting positive price and price transparency ratings to their meta descriptions. Read the case study to find out the result.

We ran a title tag test with a customer in the listings space on their search results pages. Our customer had the current month and year in the title tag to indicate freshness, but actually updates their listings more frequently than once a month - they update them daily. We wanted to test if putting “Updated Daily” instead would improve organic traffic.

In this week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought the impact on organic traffic was when we replaced templated content with unique content on a customer’s website. Here is what people thought: Most of our followers believe that this change positively impacted organic traffic - and they were right! When we replaced the templated content for unique, this change had a positive impact on organic traffic! Read the full case study below!

This week we asked our Twitter followers what they thought would happen when we updated internal links that pointed to URLs with 301 status codes to their 200 status code equivalent. More than half of our followers thought this would have a positive impact on organic traffic: This change actually had no detectable impact on organic traffic. How could that be? Read the full case study below. The Case Study One item in a typical technical SEO audit is to seek out internal links that point to URLs that redirect (have 3XX status codes).

In this week’s #SPQuiz on Twitter, we asked our followers what they thought would happen when we added emojis to title tags for thematic content pages. Here’s what they thought: The largest proportion opted for positive, but it’s fair to say that opinion was evenly split between all three options - there was no intuitive feel among the community for how this test would go. In situations like this, testing is extremely useful so that we know the true impact of a change rather than guessing.

For this week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our followers what they thought happened to organic traffic when a customer added authorship content to improve their pages’ E-A-T signals. Here’s what they thought:  All the votes this week were evenly split between this change having a positive impact or no detectable impact on organic traffic. Were half of the votes right? Or was everyone wrong? Read the full case study below to find out!

This week’s case study highlights a test that involved a client-side script to perform an API request for data that would then be injected onto the page to enhance the page’s content. We asked our twitter followers in our #SPQuiz poll what they suspected the impact to organic traffic would be: Most of the respondents believed there wouldn’t be a detectable impact from this test. Read on to see if they were correct.

For this week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought happened when a customer tested reformatting their HTML table to regain table snippets in the SERP that they previously owned. This test was run across multiple domains. Here’s what they thought: There was a strong consensus this week, with over 80% of our followers thinking there would be a mix of positive and inconclusive results. Nobody thought the results would be the same across every domain.

For this week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought the impact on organic traffic was when we added dynamic prices to the title tags of a customer’s travel/rental website. Here’s what people thought: The majority of you believe that adding dynamic prices would positively impact organic traffic. At the same time, there was an even split of 20% from the rest of our followers, thinking it would have no detectable or negative impact.

For this week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought the impact would be when a travel website moved a deals block above their informational content. Here’s what they thought: Over half thought that this would have a positive impact on organic traffic, the rest split evenly between negative and no detectable impact. This change actually had a negative impact on organic traffic! Read the case study below to learn more.