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43% of E-Commerce Traffic comes from Organic Google Search

You can’t go to a search conference these days without hearing a digital media banshee decrying “The Death of SEO” from up on high. Our findings demonstrate this clearly isn’t the case with almost half (43%) of traffic coming from Google Organic. This figure has actually increased from 40% in our previous KPI study. Google AdWords ac-counts for one quarter of traffic (26%) and Direct is the third most popular traffic source delivering 17% of traffic. This direct traffic is typically made up of repeat visitors returning to the website (includ-ing repeat customers), traffic from above the line marketing activi-ties such as TV advertising and ‘dark traffic’