Best Search Engine For Traffic

[moonshield]

Which search engine gives you the best traffic? For me Yahoo! gives me the best traffic.

[Mike]

MSN... although Google is improving.

[MarkB]

Depends on the site. Sometimes Google, sometimes MSN. Hell, sometimes Ask Jeeves!

[moonshield]

Ask.com seems to do well for some sites. I like it a great deal. Never use it though.

[ordinary_guy]

Last March it was MSN begginning this April I see a rise in my traffic coming from google.

[davesplace1]

Google hands down, then Yahoo, MSN and then small numbers from the others. I'm seeing more and more traffic from Yahoo and MSN.

[chromate]

Are we talking about traffic from relative positions? ie, #1 in msn compared with #1 in Google? Google whips the competition in this respect.

[moonshield]

no we are just talking how much total traffic you receive from a SE.

[chromate]

Google then, easily. But then I have good rankings for the most part, so it's to be expected.

[Cutter]

Google, Yahoo, and MSN each get top for my websites. One does best on Google, another with Yahoo, and another with MSN. I generally use the same SEO techniques across all my websites so I haven't quite figured this one out yet.

[James]

It's probably that the other sites in your niche are using different SEO techniques.

[r2d2]

Depends on site too, but Google closely followed by Yahoo for me. MSN is probably 1/3 to a half of Yahoo & Google.

[newsniche]

What little traffic I do get I would say Google followed by Yahoo then MSN. Although I can count the referals on one hand.

[r2d2]

Dont worry newsniche, we were all there once. I fondly remember the day - right about 1yr ago it was - that I got my very first referals from Google, it was so exciting, just 1 in a whole day :)

'Success' just takes a while, and you will get there if you stick at it.

[James]

I've been at it 9 years; where's my success?

[edit]
I'm sure you'll do better newsniche, you've got nice sites.

[r2d2]

What is your definition of 'success'?

I'm sure some people would say you are successful.

[James]

The only check I got in that entire period is for 19 dollars.

My definition is being, I suppose:
- either very good at programming or design
- being able to 'practice what I preach'
- knowing a helluva lot more than I do right now
- getting checks regularily for decent amounts of money

[tony]

mine is google/msn about the same from each every month however i am ranked on page 1/2 from msn whereas im on about page 4/5 for google then yahoo although more recently ive been getting more and more hits from other engines such as ask/lycos and altavista probably down tot he fact that my site is only 5months old and ive actually been foud by those search engines now

[ogito]

mine is google and yahoo

still don't have any traffic from msn (but crawilng)

[organ]

anime movie (http://www.animegirlmovie.com) traffic is google
GBA Walkthrough (http://www.gba-game-walkthrough.com) traffic is msn.

[Cutter]

Best traffic? As in best converting traffic? Based off of my stats, AOL traffic clicks on Adsense and signs up for my newsletters at a higher percentage than any other engine. Best as in volume, definately google.

[etech-martin]

Ours Search engines-- Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista. :)

[Masetek]

If you get a site listed well in Google it'll win hands down. MSN always kicks off new sites, and yahoo doesn't like any of my sites so it doesn't get a look in

[michael_gersitz]

The only check I got in that entire period is for 19 dollars.

My definition is being, I suppose:
- either very good at programming or design
- being able to 'practice what I preach'
- knowing a helluva lot more than I do right now
- getting checks regularily for decent amounts of money


Make a site and...

Update it everyday,
Improve it everyday,
&
Promote it everyday...

Guarenteed success.

[jspider]

I personally use Google but love the traffic from Yahoo. Not sure why that is...

[organ]

yahoo is old, they update so slow and only index useless imformation.