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Study: Three-Word Queries Drive Most SEO Traffic
Ad network Chitika has published interesting findings from an examination of a whole lot of search-driven ad impressions. Specifically, "Chitika looked at a sample of 41,103,403 impressions of search traffic coming into their network between June 13 – June 19."

The company found that 26 percent of (organic) search-driven traffic was the result of "three-word searches." Here's the full breakdown of organic search volume by query length:

Here's the full breakdown:

    1. Three-word phrases -- 26 percent
    2. Two-word phrases -- 19 percent
    3. Four-word phrase -- 17 percent
    4. One-word phrases -- 14 percent

Posted by Greg Sterling on June 28, 2010 | Permalink