Hi, all,

Please vote what's your favorite number of Google search result on each page.
I have been using 30 per pages for many years because it gives more result than 10 and doesn't require scrolling too much.

The reason I ask for this is, from my personal tech web site, some key words are only at top 50 among millions of result. With 30 per page, I have to go to page 2 to see it. The result is decent for 30 per page, but I will be worrying if most people use 10 per page.
I would like to collect tech guys' habits to see how to improve the SEO.

Thanks

I guess scrolling is better than waiting for the second page to load, so ill pick [50] and go figure out how to change my google settings to agree with me.

I assumed I had it set to 50 or 100. Went to Google and found that Instant Search was on, limiting to 10 results. Not an important setting for me, I guess.

Whilst I suspect the "next page" does form a significant cut off, I don't know if it's the only thing that matters. If I see what I want (or otherwise get bored) before I reach your site at page 30, then that's true whether it appears on page 1 or page 2 or 3. Also consider that people with a small number of results per page might be more likely to try more pages.

In other words, if you care about search engine results, improving it is probably worthwhile however many pages people use. (Are you logging out of any Google accounts and clearing your cache before checking your result?)

I suspect most people don't bother changing it from the default, whatever that is? Indeed, I didn't know that you could change it...

but I will be worrying if most people use 10 per page.[/quote]

Majority of users will click only the first link.

No, really.

I use 10, because that's comfortable for my eyes (font-size). And because that's the default.

I guess scrolling is better than waiting for the second page to load, so ill pick [50] and go figure out how to change my google settings to agree with me.

What waiting? Are you serious? You mean more than 1 second?
Anyway, I like the 10 results per page option. Most results are on the first page anyway. Google is pretty good at what it does.

but I will be worrying if most people use 10 per page.

Majority of users will click only the first link.

No, really.
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I use 10 per page. I don't just click the first link, but I generally visually scan the first 5 or 6, looking at the synopses that best match what I'm looking for, and will open any seemingly useful links (usually 3) on a new tab before going through them. If the tab isn't what I'm wanting, I close the tab and move on to the next one. If I close all the tabs. that automatically brings me back to the tab open with the google search, in which case I either go to the second page, or try a different search query.

I prefer 20. If I don't find what I am looking for, I go on to the next page. I tend to stop after several pages and alter my search if I still come up empty.

Thanks for your votes and replies.

Just to share, here is my habits.
I set to 30 results per page. And usually I will stop after 3~5 pages if I still can't find enough.
For me, as a tech guy and google for tech stuff, top 30 (the first page) is not always enough.
Just for an example, even for Windows APIs that MSDN gives very good documentation, it's more helpful to seek for some tutorials, blogs, and forum discussions.