The Other Search Engines

**smart-reality** · 09-06-2007, 02:05 AM

Google is very popular now, Unlike a long time a ago (remember when all the magazines called Altavista the best search engine?). I think most people use only google now and some poeple arn't aware of other search engines. How much of your traffic comes form other search engines? Is it worth bothering with them?

**gringo** · 09-06-2007, 05:06 AM

To be honest, you shouldn't be focusing on any one particular search engine. If you create a good "user centric" (tm) site with useful, unique content that attracts links naturally and is structured well, it will be well equipped to do well in any search engine.

The algorithms for the different engines will place more or less emphasis on different things, but they all work in the same way fundamentally.

To answer your other question though:
Google: 64%
Live: 2%
MSN: 2%
AOL: 1%
Yahoo: < 1%

**Michel Samuel** · 09-07-2007, 06:21 PM

exalead.fr : 43%
seek.fr : 7%
franceevasion.com : 3%
recherche-libre.com:< 1%

**solidghost** · 09-10-2007, 11:34 AM

For me, oneof my site gets more traffic from Yahoo then from Google. Well not always, but there are months which Yahho gives me more traffic. I was very surprised. Anyone had the same thing?

**markov** · 09-17-2007, 05:15 AM

For me:
MSN:65%
Yahoo:20%
Google: 15%

**k9ine** · 10:50 AM

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**ADAM Web Design** · 09-18-2007, 11:03 AM

A little over 1% from other SEs here.

**dapyx** · 10-02-2007, 08:10 AM

There is a big percentage of the traffic that is coming from search engines, since 80% of all sales that are made online, are coming from a search engine query.

**kaus** · 10-02-2007, 11:58 PM

Mine is 65% google, 20% yahoo followed by MSN and than the others

**sri_gan** · 10-03-2007, 03:23 PM

For me this is the share:

Yahoo: 70%
Ask: 10%
Google: 8%
MSN: 1 %
Others: 11%

**darsh999** · 10-09-2007, 07:11 PM

For me its a one man show as such ...... google ........

Google: 79%
Live: 1%
MSN: 1%
AOL: <1%
Yahoo: 4%

**jack2** · 10-10-2007, 11:22 AM

One of my sites.
Google: 80%
yahoo + live 10%
other 10%

**NightCrawler** · 12-03-2007, 02:18 AM

I've launched a dutch (.nl) website 6 months ago. These are my stats.

Google 98%
Altavista 1%
Yahoo 0,5%
Google images 0,5%

**downliner** · 12-03-2007, 09:49 AM

Google ~85%
Yahoo ~ 5%
MSN ~ 5%
Other ~ 5%

**MrBrownThumb** · 12-04-2007, 04:43 PM

Google-95%
all others 4%
Social stuff maybe 1%

I don't really do any SEO and I wish I knew what it was I'm doing that is causing Google to be so nice to me. 'Cause I'd do it for the other SE too. ;0)

**chammer** · 12-04-2007, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gringo

To be honest, you shouldn't be focusing on any one particular search engine.

I know at least one circunstance where one can wish to focus on a specific engine; if you have a very important page with keywords that compete against each other and wish to optimize your page. Putting a bit more emphasis on some keywords or titles in bold may dilute the others in the long term. So is a 8 th position on Yahoo with keywords 'A,B,C' better than a 19 th position on Google with keywords 'D,E,F' ? It depends oh the number of visitors and the quality of your visitors in each case..
The search engine's popularity may be different in non English speaking countries. Google is still a major player in France and Gemany but I'm still unsure if it is more popular than Marwerb in North Africa.