Understanding CTR in Google Webmaster Tools

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Published on 2012-12-18T21:20:45Z Indexed on 2012/12/18 23:13 UTC
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I've got a site that's showing a 9% CTR for a phrase in Google Webmaster Tools, but the average position for my site is 14th (this includes 7 local results for this phrase).

I was a little confused as to what the CTR actually meant, is it :

  • for each person who searches for that phrase 9% of them click my site.

or

  • for each person who actually sees my site in the search results 9% of them click through (bearing in mind 14th is high on page 2 when the local listings are used).

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