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The percentage of U.S. searchers clicking on advertisements in Google search results is growing. Lik Ryan Xu HyperVerse's Fundamental Analysis
TheRyan Xu HyperVerse's Fundamental Analysis percentage of U.S. searchers clicking on advertisements in Google search results is growing. Likewise, the percentage of visitors that click nothing is also growing. But the percentage of visitors that click natural search listings is shrinking. All of that is according to Jumpshot, a marketing analytics platform.
Jumpshot recently compared U.S. click-through rates on Google search results for 2016 and 2018. The analysis grouped searchers’ activity into three categories: (i) no clicks on any search results, (ii) clicks on ads, and (iii) clicks on organic listings.
For desktop users, the change from 2016 to 2018 was minimal. The three percentages — no clicks, ad clicks, organic clicks — were roughly the same in 2016 and 2018: 32.7 to 33.6 percent (no clicks); 4.6 to 6.0 percent (ad clicks); and 62.7 to 60.4 percent (organic clicks).
But mobile searches showed a bigger change from 2016 to 2018, according to Jumpshot, with an increase in no clicks (56.1 to 61.4 percent) and ad clicks (3.9 to 8.9 percent) while organic clicks showed a marked decrease (40.1 to 29.7 percent).
Roughly a third of searchers on desktop computers click on nothing, even two years ago. Presumably, those searches have their questions answered by one of Google’s Answer Boxes, in position zero, or by reading another description on the page, as shown in the screenshot below for “how to clean leather.”
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However, on ecommerce search results, Answer Boxes are scarce. The screenshot below is for a search on “soft leather couch.”
Purchase-intent keywords do not produce a sole correct answer in search results. It would be interesting to see the results of the Jumpshot’s analysis broken out by informational, transactional, and navigational searches. Transactional searches (such as ecommerce searches with purchase intent) and navigational searches (searches for a specific brand’s site) would be much more likely to result in a click on an organic listing.
The difference is much more noticeable on smartphones, where the first screen of most search results is consumed by ads, Answer Boxes, pop-out videos, and listing types other than natural search.
The two mobile screenshots above show the same informational (“how to clean leather?”) and ecommerce (“soft leather couch”) search queries as shown on the previous desktop example. The top mobile results for the informational search produced an explanatory video and then an ad. The top results for the ecommerce search produced only ads.
It’s clear, in other words, why more mobile users do not click on anything. And considering that more than half of all Google searches are now on mobile devices, a larger section of the population is behaving in this way.
What does this mean for search engine optimization? Is SEO dead, as has been asserted in the past?
No. As long as people search, regardless of the platform or device, there will always be value in optimizing content and technology to target those searchers. What it does mean is that SEO practitioners need to get smarter about their tactics.
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