The Other Search Engines

**willcode4beer** · 01-01-2007, 09:41 PM

Please forgive if this isn't really the most appropriate place to post.

I've noticed from my referer logs that about 90%+ of my traffic comes from google searches. Granted, its pretty developer oriented and most developers (I know) use google but, I'm surprised there's not much traffic from other search engines.

Is there something I should be doing to build traffic from "non-Google" search engines?

I have to admit, I don't really do much promotion of any kind. I've been kind of putting it off until I build to a certain level of content.

**ADAM Web Design** · 02:15 AM

In a word, "nothing." Tier 2 engines traditionally don't send much traffic if at all.

My primary site is also designer/developer-oriented and 88.8% of my searches come from Big G (including 1.6% from image searches, which is really messed up considering I have exactly five non-background images TOTAL on my site, and at least 2 of those aren't used on a regular basis.)

I get about 2% combined search traffic from tier 2s (anything not named Big G, Yahoo!, or MSN). And the scary thing is that searches, as much as I get, are about 5% of my traffic now (and I get a bunch of search traffic.) So my tier 2 traffic is 2% of 5% (or, for those of you trying to keep score at home, 0.1%).

So I wouldn't worry about it. Do what you need to do to work on your site and the rest will fall into place. And if you do get traffic from a tier 2, consider it a bonus.

**willcode4beer** · 01-02-2007, 11:58 AM

Thanks, its just that some things are funny.
One search that gets a lot of people to my site (especially from Europe) is a trivial page I have with a bash ftp script.
The search that gets the most people there is "ftp shell script". The funny part is that term puts me around number 35-45 on google and around the top 5 from MSN.
I think you are right, I shouldn't worry about it. I need to develop a lot more content before I start worrying.

**roy77** · 01-07-2007, 09:30 PM

yea i was wondering the same, its easier indexing in the big engines than the small ones. including ranking.

**jaguar-archie15** · 01-08-2007, 11:56 AM

email marketing also as press release will help, depend on how you use this.....

**hhheng** · 01-31-2007, 04:43 AM

If you get about 500 referrals from google, and no traffic from yaho and msn, that's be strange. So how many traffic is from google?

**willcode4beer** · 01-31-2007, 10:40 AM

Google normally supplies about 70% of my traffic. When my site shows up on a social networking site, then the traffic changes drastically.
I love the google traffic but, I don't want to be dependent on one source. So, I thought if I could focus on other search engines and sources of traffic, I could get more balance.