The Value of a Link on Google's Home Page

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November 20, 2008

The Value of a Link on Google's Home Page

Ever wonder what a link on Google's homepage would bring in terms of traffic? Let's take this G1 link:

The Compete blog gives some detail into the number of clicks that link had while it was extremely visible on Google.com.

First, some background. Google planned on running this between the 22nd and 29th of October. It was for Google's new phone with T-Mobile. What's was the value of the traffic to T-Mobile? Well, the visibility of the link did some incredible things:

* More than 800,000 unique visitors went to that page.
* In one day, more than 233,000 unique visitors were registered.

That's impressive. Too bad it didn't hit 1 million, but 800,000 in 7 days is pretty impressiveis

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posted Tamar Weinberg in Other Google Topics at November 20, 2008 10:19 AM Comments (7)

Comments

I wonder what happens on links on yahoo's front page

Posted by James Matthews at November 20, 2008 12:54

I wonder if they'll start selling their front page off as another source of ad revenue. I wouldn't be surprised, esp. with those kinds of results. They can charge a premium price for that.

Posted by Parth at November 20, 2008 22:34

Amazing....
The home page has a great value and it drives much traffic then expected....

Posted by martha at November 21, 2008 02:11

James Matthews, I've had a link on Yahoo!'s home page. The traffic from Yahoo!'s home page will make a server come to its knees, last time I checked it was over 2 million pageviews A DAY compared to Google's home page of 800,000 in 7 days.

Posted by Bill Hartzer at November 21, 2008 11:13

@James Matthews - the Google homepage gets a lot more than 800,000 PAGEVIEWS in 7 days - what they tracked was 800,000 CLICKS of the ad. Thats impressive for clicks. The pageviews were definitely in the millions per day. I guarantee you did not see 800,000 clicks of your Yahoo homepage ad in 7 days.

Posted by Justin Dean at November 21, 2008 11:33

Sorry... that was @Bill Hartzer

Posted by Justin Dean at November 21, 2008 11:37

My website has taken 6 month's to get that many unique visitors !

Google can do it in 7 !

I give up

Posted by No Name at February 24, 2009 17:07