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All the case studies below are based on controlled experiments run with the SearchPilot platform. If you're interested to know more before diving into the individual case studies, you can read more about how SEO A/B testing works, sign up to get these case studies by email every other week or get a demo of the SearchPilot platform.

Adding Top Brands to FAQ Markup

This week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought the outcome would be on organic traffic when we added an additional question to the FAQ section that links out to the top brands on category pages. Here is what our followers thought: The vote was evenly split between positive and no detectable impact - nobody thought this change would be negative. Those who voted that this change would be positive were right!

Jonas Golden

3 min read

Can adding pricing information client-side increase SEO performance?

This week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers how they thought adding pricing information into the title using JS would impact organic traffic. Here is what our followers thought: Nearly 50% of people thought that this test would result in an inconclusive result, with the rest of the votes being split 50/50 between positive and negative. This time the majority of voters were wrong! Read the full case study below for a full breakdown of how this test went down.

Noe Servin

3 min read

Does adding category names to product page titles help SEO?

This week’s #SPQuiz, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought the impact on organic traffic was when we added the category name to the title tags of product pages. Here is what people thought: In this case, the majority of respondents were wrong - only 15% of you guessed the correct answer. This change had a negative impact on organic traffic. Read the full case study below to learn more!

Rida Abidi

3 min read

Does Adding Product Descriptions above the fold Improve SEO?

In this week’s #SPQuiz we asked our followers what they thought the impact on organic traffic would be from repurposing product descriptions that were behind tabs into a content container above the fold. Here is what they thought: Most of our followers believed that this change had a positive impact on organic traffic; they were right! When we included product descriptions in a container above the fold, this had a positive impact on organic traffic.

Elizabeth Samuel

2 min read

Are Exact Numbers or Approximations in Title Tags Better for SEO?

For this week’s #SPQuiz, we were looking at using approximations of results counts for a listings website would impact SEO performance. We reached out on our Twitter page to see what our followers expected the results to be. Here’s what the SEO community felt about this variant title tag version: The majority of poll respondents felt that the result of this test would be ‘no detectable impact.’ Well! Let’s continue to see if we can trust the instincts of our fellow SEO’ers.

Daniel Haugen

2 min read

What's the impact on SEO from having an 'Estimated read time' in the SERP?

Early this year we noticed Google was scraping the ‘Estimated read time’ from some blog post pages into their meta descriptions. We wanted to know if that had any benefit to organic traffic, so we tested manually adding it to the front of the meta descriptions on an ecommerce customer’s blog pages.

Emily Potter

3 min read

Can Shortening Truncated Title Tags Improve SEO Performance?

In this week’s #SPQUIZ we asked our followers what impact they thought, shortening truncated title tags and removing the words “find” and “book”, would have on organic traffic. Here is what they thought: Our followers this week were split between positive, negative and inconclusive. Nearly half of the respondents thought it would be negative. Those who thought it would be positive - only 21% - were correct! This change improved organic traffic.

Fatima Ahmed

3 min read

Can adding third-party ratings to meta descriptions improve SEO performance?

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.

Noe Servin

3 min read

Can improving freshness signals in titles benefit SEO?

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.

Emily Potter

3 min read

What's Better for SEO: Unique or Templated Content?

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!

Rida Abidi

2 min read
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