The leading U.S. paid search term in August 2008 was "ebay", receiving .12 percent of paid clicks among all Web sites according to Hitwise.
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The search term driving the most traffic from paid listings was "eBay" at.12 percent, which was six times higher than the next largest traffic driver, which was "ebay.com". This is an indication of both the high volume of searchers conducted on the term "ebay" and the tendency of
The top category receiving paid search traffic was office supplies with 43.15 percent of all paid search traffic. That was an 8 percent increase over July and the highest of paid search traffic among more than 170 categories that Hitwise reports on. The increase in paid traffic to the office supplies category is probably due to back-to-school promotions in August. Other top categories receiving high percentages of paid traffic include travel agency sites, which received 35.32 percent of all paid search traffic and the telecommunications category with 30.97 percent.
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