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0.073x -- organic ctr position 1 for Top-ranking (position #1) pages for informational keywords that trigger Google AI Overviews, before widespread US rollout (2024-03)
In March 2024, prior to the widespread US rollout of AI Overviews, the average CTR for position #1 on the analyzed keywords was 0.073 (7.3%).
- Pre-rollout baseline data from informational queries
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0.073x
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Ratio
Data Vintage
2024-03
Entity
Sample Size
300,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier C
https://foxandowlmarketing.com/google-ai-overviews-and-click-through-rates/ ↗
Source Article
Google's AI Overviews: What 300,000 Keywords Reveal About Your SEO Clicks
AI Overview: A New Era of Search Results
Google has been steadily introducing AI-generated summaries, or AI Overviews, at the top of many search results. These summaries are meant to quickly answer a user’s question by pulling together snippets of information from multiple sources.
Google CEO Sundar…
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Ahrefs
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Methodology
Aggregated Google Search Console data; Ahrefs study of 300,000 keywords (150,000 that triggered AI Overviews vs 150,000 similar informational keywords that did not); pre-AI-Overview baseline
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Segmentation
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Top-ranking (position #1) pages for informational keywords that trigger Google AI Overviews, before widespread US rollout: 0.073x organic ctr position 1. Source: Ahrefs (2024-03). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ctr-position1-pre-ai-overviews-march-2024
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