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Is Google Sending Fewer Clicks To Websites?

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2479, we discuss whether Google is sending fewer clicks to websites. The statistics and analytics around Google's search results have continued to shift and evolve over the years, with the latest data suggesting impressions are up and clicks are down. Tune in to hear what this means for Google, SEO, and your business! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:00] Today’s topic: Is Google Sending Fewer Clicks To Websites? [00:06] What the data suggests about Google traffic. [00:43] Movement in the statistics; what we have noticed. [01:06] Evolving online behavior across different platforms. [01:51] More direct information on the results page and fewer click-throughs. [02:20] What do these trends mean for Google's revenue moving forward? [04:05] Laying out the amounts that Google makes from their ads. [05:01] That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Databox Danny Sullivan  SparkToro  Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

All right, so we're going to talk about if Google is actually sending less clicks to

0:05.3

websites.

0:06.3

So I don't know if you saw this, Neil, but I had a friend.

0:11.0

He posted something on LinkedIn. His name is Peter. He's a CEO of Data Box and you know they compile a lot of data from different companies and I believe what they do I'm not even describe what do, but Data Box is a company.

0:23.0

So here's what it says.

0:24.0

It says, here's Google Search Console Trend Data over the last six months from 1500 companies.

0:29.0

Based on this, I'm wondering if Google Search has been slowly sending websites fewer and fewer

0:34.3

clicks over the last six months. So before we go into this study meal, how have you

0:38.1

been seeing it with the tools that you have, the products that you have, etc? Do you think

0:41.5

it's going up or do you think it's going down flat?

0:44.4

We haven't really seen it going down much.

0:47.0

We haven't seen it going up like crazy.

0:48.8

I would say it's more flat to up and to give you idea we have close to a million Google search console or we have

0:57.1

data from over a million plus accounts.

0:59.2

Right, so arguably you should be posting this on LinkedIn, but let's just work off of this one for now

1:03.4

so I think the natural inclination from marketers is that the behavior is changing you have

1:09.6

tick talk you have people searching on Amazon you have

1:12.9

Reddit chat JBT and so what's happening right and so he's basically saying

1:17.3

that our data doesn't support this theory in fact from our sample median search

1:20.7

impressions are actually up so impressions are actually up right

1:24.1

which is just that people are searching Google even more and he's saying that

1:28.2

what's interesting is that there's an opposite trend for the median click-through rate

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