More and more people are taking to Facebook to advertise their business but have you ever considered you’re missing a trick.
A major trick that is.
GOOGLE SEARCH
Google is the largest of the search engines and has over 90% search share compared to the next largest bing at just 3.8%
General Google Search Statistics
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3.5 billion Google searches are made every day. (Internet Live Stats)
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The volume of Google searches grows by roughly 10% every year. (Internet Live Stats)
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Every year, somewhere between 16% and 20% of Google searches are new—they’ve never been searched before. (Internet Live Stats)
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90% of searches made on desktops are done via Google. (Statista)
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35% of product searches start on Google. (eMarketer)
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34% of “near me” searches done via desktop and tablets result in store visits. (HubSpot)
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The average Google search session lasts just under a minute. (Moz)
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Dating & Personal Services advertisers drive the highest CTRs on paid Google results. Just over 6% of their impressions turn into clicks! (WordStream)
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Organic Google results with 3-4 words in the title drive higher CTRs than organic results with 1-2 words in the title. (Smart Insights)
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Google has indexed hundreds of billions of web pages. All told, the index is about 100,000,000 GB large. (Google)
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Here’s a breakdown of Google search queries by length (Rand Fishkin):
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1 word: 21.71%
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2 words: 23.98%
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3 words: 19.60%
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4 words: 13.89%
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5 words: 8.70%
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6+ words: 12.12%
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Search queries of the “__ to avoid” format have increased by 150%. (Google)
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Search queries of the “is __ worth it?” format have increased by 80%. (Google)
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Roughly 8% of Google search queries are questions. (Moz)
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“What is Bitcoin?” and “What is racketeering?” were the two most popular “What is …” searches of 2018. (Observer)
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“How to vote” and “How to register to vote” were the two most “How to …” searches of 2018. (Observer)
THE FIGURES ARE ASTONISHING – what this means for your business
If you’re not on google you might as well not exist.
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