click-thru

A form of click-through — The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.

Meanings

nounclick-thru (countable and uncountable, plural click-thrus)

plural click-thrus

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of click-through.

    Usually a clickthru has rules for how a text link can appear.

    2005, Nadeem Brown, Dirty Little Secret, iUniverse, →ISBN
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    The click-thru measurement is an immensely popular way of rating banners and advertising campaigns.

    2006, Valery A. Petrushin, Latifur Khan, Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, →ISBN, page 453

    Remember Click-thru rate (CTR) is the number of people who click on an ad …

    2008, Jerri L. Ledford, Google AdSense for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

    Think of it this way: a website can't get a click-thru without someone first clicking on an ad or a button which leads to a sale.

    2009, Andrew Skelly, The Amazing Millionaire Formula, →ISBN, page 186

    And, while things like Web traffic, click-thru rates, retweets-even short-term sales spikes-don't define success, …

    2010 October 18, Michael Brunner, “CMOs: Stake A Claim On A System of Accountability”, in Forbes Magazine, retrieved 07 Sep 2012

    - Selections (or Click-thrus) — that is, a user selects a search result …

    2012, B. Smyth, edited by Joaquim Filipe and José Cordeiro, Web Information Systems and Technologies, Springer, →ISBN, page 27
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