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Paid Search Growth Continues to Slip, CPCs Down But ROI Improves in Q3 2012

October 25, 2012 by Raymond Hackney

By: RH

Search Engine Watch posted an article about slowing growth in the paid search segment. Its interesting  that part of the lower CPC's comes from lower mobile clicks. When we interviewed Donny Simonton from Voodoo we asked him if there were lower payouts on clicks from mobile.

Donny said:

We usually classify traffic into 4 categories, desktop, tablets,
smartphones, and dumbphones.  Desktop and Smartphone traffic are usually
on par with each other as far as RPM goes.  Tablets usually have the
highest RPM and Dumbphones have the lowest.

Mobile traffic has definitely been increasing since the beginning of
the year, but desktop traffic has been staying very steady as well.  I
would have expected to see a drop in the percentage of desktop traffic
when there was an increase in mobile traffic.  But overall, the numbers
continue to go higher month over month.


From the Search Engine Journal article:

Slowing growth and lower CPCs in paid search don’t bode well for
companies like Google, though advertisers are seeing a higher return on
their paid search investment, according to recent reports.

U.S. search spend grew by 11 percent Year over Year (YoY) while ROI
improved by 26 percent, according to Adobe. They found that Google’s
CPCs fell 10 percent over the last year and attribute the loss to an
increased volume of less expensive mobile clicks. It’s a problem Google
knows all too well; one that was a hot topic during their recent quarterly earnings call.

Adobe expects
Google’s CPC losses to turn around next quarter, explaining, “The cost
per click (CPC) downward trend caused by mobile traffic appears to have
bottomed out and is projected to rise in Q4 due to seasonal trends and
changes to the Google Shopping model.”

Read the whole article here

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

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