The Other Search Engines

**johnch** · 09-30-2009, 05:17 AM

Google is pretty much on top right now, and also a hard one to beat. But personally, just relying on one SE is a bit lazy and risky. You really can't tell what's gonna happen in the future you know. Its still best if you make efforts on trying to get traffic from other SE, no matter how little percentage it may contribute to your traffic. Little is still better than nothing, right? =)

**melissa09** · 10-08-2009, 11:04 PM

Yeah I think it's worth bothering with non-google search engines as well. I for one, I don't just use google when I do research; I also use yahoo, msn and etc., and what I've noticed was that the search results weren't the same, meaning your site can appear on the first pages in google but not with yahoo and others.

**mrandrei** · 10-15-2009, 12:14 AM

I think it's not worth it. Google still generates the best traffic and you should focus your time and energy on that search engine. You can only get minimal traffic from other SEs.

**larryatwt** · 10-21-2009, 12:42 AM

It is no doubt that we should optimize our sites for google first. But we should not just ignore search engines since we will never know when google will have a big change in their algorithm that might drop your serp rankings to nowhere.

**stephen186** · 10-21-2009, 06:19 AM

Sometimes depending upon your niche you may get a less traffic from other search engines but may be some good conversion than what you are getting through google but it does depend upon niche..

**Viral** · 10-21-2009, 07:37 PM

I would only bother with high ranking search engines for traffic.

**ctemplates08** · 10-21-2009, 09:53 PM

I think it is just fair to give attention to other major search engines because somehow they can help you out with your marketing. Yahoo and Bing are not really far behind Google so if you can rank better at the two then it will definitely help you out.

**Juster** · 10-23-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by journey08

I have noticed this too. When I optimized and link build my blogs, my main focus is to rank well in google. Then some of my major keywords that rank high in google have also the same results or rankings in yahoo and msn.

also have that practise. And was and this: google 20 pos, yahoo 1 pos.
I think is realy hard be in top of most popular SE (Google, msn, yahoo, yandex) should choose one from all SE, you must have great money that be in top in all SE.

**jem777** · 11-16-2009, 07:36 AM

It's friendly. It's simple as that. It's the site that makes and shares money for business.
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**KennyGee** · 11-16-2009, 11:06 AM

Well traffic coming from other search engines might not be a lot but at least when combined together in longer term period, they still can make a difference.

**FenceGuy** · 12-06-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

All eggs in one basket is never a good idea, what you should be doing is working to increase your referrals from the other engines and from sources other than search.
You never know when it will be your turn for a glitch.

I agree 100% Chris, some days I get more traffic from StumbleUpon or Twitter than from search engines. But looking at only search engine traffic only, my site yields about 65% from Google, the other 35% comes from other search engines including Yahoo, Bing and AOL (didn't even know AOL still existed! LOL) and I would have to say, even if it were only 10% I would want that 10% of traffic.

**larryatwt** · 12-06-2009, 07:19 PM

It is always good to rank well in all major SEs. Currently your site ranks well in google. If you try to optimize for other SEs, it might affect your rankings in google. It is up to you to take this risk or not.

**medirectory** · 12-07-2009, 07:09 AM

There's no harm in optimizing for other SE. Not all people are using only google, although it is popular but don't limit your decision to one SE only after all, changes exist every second.

**MrFlicks** · 12-11-2009, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Warner Design

You may also want to submit to other search engines because Google may not be king forever. Not to long ago they were just a little nothing and now they have dominated. So it very well could happen again to some other search. If your submitted to others than your already good.

Or better still - forget submitting to any SE's and go get a rep on a decent other site - like erm webmaster-talk

I believe that's what they call networking and as ChrisHirst said - "all your eggs in one basket" hmm - doesn't take that much of a big shake to turn all that into a runny old mess that makes things very complicated to recover from, now does it?

**akki45** · 12-12-2009, 04:18 AM

I think Google should be given the priority while considering any SEO or Internet Marketing related jobs.

**chrishirst** · 12-12-2009, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by akki45

I think Google should be given the priority while considering any SEO or Internet Marketing related jobs.

So real users get low priority then?

**frih** · 12-12-2009, 07:38 AM

Every search engine contributes. It doesn't matter how big or small is that. People from small engines may give you affiliates sale or the may click on your ads. So everyone is equal.

**itbuzz** · 12-12-2009, 04:12 PM

Yeah i absolutely agree we shouldn't rely on google solely for traffic we must look for other search options as well.

**Athlon** · 01-27-2010, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by watergirl

I was always under the impression that good rankings with other engines, could actually help your rankings on Google. Maybe it's just by adding traffic.

I dont think that good ranking on one search engine will improve your ranking on another search engine.

However I have noticed what appear to be correlations between rankings on some search engines, in particular serp for my keywords on AOL and Ardvaark seem to track movement in serp for those keywords on Google. This may just be coincidental, but if my position in Google moves up it does the same on AOL and Ardvaark and likewise if the position on Google goes down. This coupled with the fact that the position on AOL, Ardvaark and Google are normally within 3 or 4 places of each other does seem to suggest a connection between these search engines.

With regards Bing and Yahoo I show for keywords on Bing that dont show on any other search engines and dont show for keywords that do appear on other search engines, and likewise for Yahoo.

**chrishirst** · 01-27-2010, 11:26 AM

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However I have noticed what appear to be correlations between rankings on some search engines, in particular serp for my keywords on AOL and Ardvaark seem to track movement in serp for those keywords on Google.

Well it would!!

Given that BOTH of these use the results FROM Google to show in their search!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!