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If you cast your mind back to October, when the days were a little brighter and the nights a little warmer, you might remember our newsletter’s headline article which revealed that bidding your Google search and display ads into position one might not be the best way to improve your click through rate. For those of you that missed it, check out the coverage on Search Engine Watch.

This month we are following up that research with another look at click through rates on Google’s various advertising networks, but this time in regards to ads on smartphones and tablets. Take a look at the research below.

Kindest regards,

Farhad Divecha
Director


Benchmarking Mobile Click Through Rates

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Intense Emotion Creates Powerful Virality

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