1. joel brandon

    coo at whatsonwhen

    03 November 2004 15:07pm

    joel brandon

    The extent to which users click on natural search vs. paid for advertising will vary, as you would expect, based on the degree and style of integration of the PPC results. The more clearly separated on the search results, the more likely the user is to favour natural search.

    That relates that to the most popular search engines as follows:   

                       Organic             Paid           

    Google      72.3%               27.7%

    Yahoo!       60.8%               39.2%

    MSN           28.8 %             71.2 %

    AOL            50 %                 50  %

    * according to data from iProspect, Survey Sampling International, Web Surveyor, and Stratagem Research.

    So if you want traffic from MSN you pay for it, from Google you add relevant content and devote budget to SEO.

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