Search ad CPC prices in the finance category rose significantly in March, on both a month-over-month and a year-over-basis, according to data from Efficient Frontier.
Finance-related clients of the search management platform provider spent an average of 40 percent more per click in March 2011 than they did during the same month in 2010.
The cost of clicks in the travel vertical, meanwhile, dipped by 27.3 percent on a month-over month basis, and almost 30 percent year-over-year.
The retail and automotive verticals remained relatively stable, with the former growing by 4.9 percent, and the latter dropping seven percent, on a month-over-month basis.
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Jack Marshall was a staff writer and stats editor for ClickZ News from 2007 until August 2011.
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