Mediative recently performed an eye-tracking and click-tracking study to evaluate the value of having a top spot in Google’s local search results. The study supports that the top spots in Google’s local search results get the most attention and clicks. Advertisers and marketers have known this for years and have pointed to studies that demonstrate how the viewer’s eye travels across a page, why it focuses on certain areas and why it stops at a given spot. The purpose of Mediative’s study was to determine how people interact with Google Places results listings. The main questions the…




