Home insurance searches down 22%

And despite the extreme weather, home insurance, saw the biggest dip, reveals a report by leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight.

According to Greenlight’s ‘Insurance Sector Report – Issue 12’, which profiles consumer online search behaviour in this sector, there were 1.6 million insurance-related searches on Google UK in April compared to January’s 1.9 million.

Home insurance-related queries, which totalled 187,144 searches, saw the largest drop. They were 22 per cent down on January’s 240,476. However, with more than 40 flood warnings in place across the UK, homeowners are being warned about the future of their insurance. This together with premiums expected to rise could well fuel searches.

It was a similar story for car insurance. April’s search volumes were down 13 per cent on January’s 1.1 million. However, the picture was different for travel insurance. Search volumes held up and remained at the 482,000 mark.

Other key findings from Greenlight’s report revealed that:

-  Searches for car insurance-related keywords were the most popular, accounting for 61% of all insurance searches

- Queried 450,000 times and accounting for a 26 per cent share of all insurance searches, the term ‘car insurance’ was the most popular

- MoneySupermarket was the most visible website in the natural search listings, achieving an 89 per cent share of voice

- GoCompare was the most visible advertiser in the paid media space with a 56 per cent share of voice

-  Money Saving Expert ranked at the top of Greenlight’s social media league table.