- The Web is too vast, and businesses get lost in sea of results--The Indexed Web now contains at least 98.18 billion pages (WorldWideWebSize.com 1/2008)
* A typical Google search for local automotive dealership information yields an avalanche of results. For example, ‘Los Angeles GM dealer’ generates roughly 2.2 million hits, ‘Honda Dealer Cleveland’ over 1 million, and ‘Toyota dealership Chicago’ roughly 500,000. (Google search, 5/2008)
* 87% of all search clicks come from organic search—not pay per click ads. (Jupiter Research cited in Revolution Magazine 3.2008)
* 95% of all paid search impressions on Google do not result in a click. (ComScore data cited in Search Insider 2008)
* 82% of consumers go straight to the organic results first, while only 6% go to the sponsored/paid listings. (Penn State Univ/Florida Int’l University Study 2006)
* Search users are up to six times more likely to click on the first few organic results than they are to choose any of the paid results. (Oneupweb Study cited in Media Post 2008)
* Nearly 7 out of 10 search engine users only click on search results within the first page of results, and 92% click only on results in the first three pages. (iProspect/Jupiter Research/NDP Study 4.2008)
* Searchers are more impatient then ever: more search engine users only clicked the first page in 2008 (68%) than did so in 2006 (62%). And fewer searchers were willing to click beyond the third page in 2008 (8%) compared with 2002 (19%). (iProspect/Jupiter Research/NDP Study 4.2008) |