Friday, March 13, 2009

Web search users click on ads only 15% of the time

Physorg.com - Ad click-through rate lower than previously thought

A study of 7 million searches conducted on dogpile.com, a meta-search engine, revealed that the rate of clicking on ads was 15%, half the 30% claimed by some reports.  Interestingly, a full 35% of all queries resulted on no clicks at all. [If such queries are not being originated by actual users, then the click-through rate for actual users could go up to roughly 22%.]

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