60% Difference Between Google Top Spots?
Just how much of a traffic difference is there between the number one and number two natural rankings on Google? According to one searched term, an SEOer writes: “I can tell you that our site receives approximately 30k of visits on average per day from Google, just from keyword searches for Term X. There’s typically one or two Sponsored Links just above us on the SERP, and a few Sponsored Links on the right side column, too… When we dropped to second slot on the SERP for Term X, we lost approx 18k of visits per day. So, there it is: the difference between the number one slot and the number two slot for a major keyword term comes to about a 60% change in visits!”
Amazing.
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Jeff, please… Variable alogorithem… its a business revenue model… where do you think google makes its money?
How many revenue streams do you htink they have… well a bet quite a few today. But in the begining it was AdSense.
Hey, Blake — I really enjoyed this post a lot. Statistics R Good. 🙂
(I’ve kind of been out of the blogging loop for a while; it seems you’ve been writing a lot. I have so much to catch up on!)
Umm, it seems neither one of you can spell algorithm.
Can you spell Google is Evil?
And yeah Blake, those numbers actually match up precisely with the numbers we use to calculate predictive traffic algorithms based on search engine result placement.
I can corroborate these findings.
I have had sites ranked #1 and #2 for keywords like ‘work from home’, ‘home based business’, ‘car insurance’, ‘insurance’, ‘life insurance’, … and can say that a site ranked #1 receives almost twice as much traffic as a site ranked #2.
This holds on all 3 major search engines.
John
I absolutely positively hate the fact that that a company with such a variable algorythm (or however you spell it) has so much control over the success of so many businesess.