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Digital Infocard – We Love Organic SEO & You Should Too!

We Love Organic SEO & Here’s Why You Should Too!
- Organic SEO is critical for search engine queries
- 70% of clicks on the first page are on organic links
- The top 3 Links on Google account for 60% of organic clicks
- 75% of the people who search don’t go past the first page of search results
- Average CTR for paid search in 2010 was 2%, although Google makes almost 99% of it’s income from PPC Ads i.e. Google AdWords
Digital Infocard – Searching for Information

In Search of Information…
- The Internet is the largest “virtual” country with a population of 2 billion
- Worldwide searches per month on Google = 88 billion
- 57% of the world’s population searches DAILY
- Every other query is for a product or service
- 20% of searches are for LOCAL businesses
What Does Google Have That Facebook Doesn’t?
Context. That’s what Google has that Facebook doesn’t. Allow me to indulge.
Although both feature self-serve models for creating, managing, distributing and targeting ads to audiences in multiple formats and of various demographics across distributed geos, Search Ads i.e. Google AdWords tends to still fare better over Facebook Ads.
The average click-through rate (CTR) for Facebook ads in 2010 was 0.051%, or about one click-through for every 2,000 ad impressions (source: IT World). The CTR for Google AdWords was 0.09% in 2010, a slight decline from 0.1% in 2009 (source: Google). The exceptions to this CTR for Google AdWords was in China where it was a whopping 0.64%!
There are several factors (format, size, content itself, demographic, gender etc.) for what’s behind those numbers but one of them is “context”.
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