Search Engine Traffic

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[Poll]

Google

52% (27)

Yahoo

19% (10)

Fast (AllTheWeb)

1% (1)

AOL

11% (6)

MSN

7% (4)

Alta Vista

1% (1)

Excite

0% (0)

Lycos

1% (1)

Teoma

0% (0)

Other

1% (1)

Total Votes : 51

(last vote on : 10/16/2002 16:33:56)
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pageoneresults -> Search Engine Traffic (9/17/2002 1:05:43)
Where does a majority of your search engine traffic (referrers) come from? If you' ve checked other, please explain in a reply to this poll.

Mojo -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/17/2002 23:08:12)
I am getting over 75% of my traffic from AOL. Of course, this is for a product that the average age of the buyer is 45 - so that may explain a lot.

Charles Copes -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/19/2002 11:07:06)
I get 75% of my traffic from MSN, Yahoo, and Google in that order. 35% MSN 22% Yahoo 18% Google AOL is only 5%, but together you can see 80% comes from the big 4. The remainder are almost irrelevant for my site.

Peter -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/19/2002 16:08:35)
So far this month, the referrals to my www,edinphoto.org.uk web site have been from: Google 3,910 62.1% MSN 1,109 17.6% Yahoo 746 11.9% AOL 262 4.2% AltaVista 117 1.9% Ask Jeeves 57 0.9% Looksmart 46 0.7% Lycos 31 0.5% All the Web 5 0.1% DogPile 5 0.1% Direct Hit 4 0.1% - Peter

pageoneresults -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/20/2002 11:52:46)
This poll will close in approximately one week. At that time, I will take the results and summarize them. From that summary, I will begin a new poll which will carry this topic into the next phase. Thank you to all who have participated. Okay, for the rest of you reading this topic, cast your votes!

Chief -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/24/2002 13:53:26)
The majority of the traffic to my sites comes from Google. However, many of my sites are also listed in the Yahoo directory which is probably in second place (including Google results from Yahoo).

Helene -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (9/24/2002 15:44:00)
Hi - I' m not going to vote as the answer varies too much for me. I manage 40-odd sites and the SE traffic comes from different engines depending on the site. Some sites are marketed for global exposure, some are pushed more locally. Also, the age of the site defines which engines are indexing it to some degree etc. On the whole, Mostly Google, and MSN is probably second, BUT -- the older sites still get traffic from Yahoo.

pageoneresults -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (10/11/2002 23:14:37)
With the recent drastic changes at Yahoo!, I' m going to let this poll run for a few more weeks. I think we will see that some numbers will change slightly. I' d like to see how many of you see an increase in Yahoo! visitors and how many see a decrease. There is much talk right now and some are even referring to is as... Black Wednesday - October 9th, 2002 The change in the layout of the search results is considerable. We now have one major player, Google, whom Yahoo! has chosen as their web page results provider for a second time. No one else has held the contract for more than one term. And then of course we have the Overture listings at the top and bottom of each page. To sum it all up, its a Google/Overture/Yahoo! world and most of us will see 70-80% of our traffic generated by these resources. There will be many who have paid the Yahoo! $299.00 annual review fee who have lost their coveted directory positions. They are still there, just not organized how they were previously. There will also be many who have gained. Unfortunately it is not a win/win situation. If you haven' t checked your Yahoo! positions lately, you might want to take a look NOW!

Charles Copes -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (10/11/2002 23:50:55)
What happened on Oct. 9th between Yahoo and Google? I must have missed something. For Oct. so far, my search engine percentages are: 1. MSN 34.76% 2. Google 21.46% 3. Yahoo 18.88% 4. Dogpile 3.86% 5. AltaVista 3.00% 6. CNET Search.com 3.00% 7. Overture 3.00% 8. Netscape 2.58% 9. AOL NetFind 1.72% 10. MetaCrawler 1.72% 11. Ask Jeeves 1.29% 12. iwon 1.29% 13. WebCrawler 0.86% 14. Direct Hit 0.43% 15. Google Canada 0.43% 16. IX Quick 0.43% 17. LookSmart 0.43% 18. Lycos 0.43% 19. MSN Canada 0.43% I wish I knew how to tap into that huge pool of AOL users. I get very little traffic from AOL.

pageoneresults -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (10/12/2002 0:12:39)
> I wish I knew how to tap into that huge pool of AOL users. Position well in Google and you' ll do well in AOL as Google is AOL' s primary provider. You can also do Google CPC (Cost Per Click). It could get expensive, depends on your industry. Black Wednesday... The day Yahoo! renewed its contract with Google for its web page results. In the process, the entire Y! directory has been reorganized and many who have enjoyed the rewards of those directory positions are now going to be homeless! Not really, but, its the biggest change in Yahoo! that I can remember back to 1995.

Shirley -> RE: Search Engine Traffic (10/14/2002 11:28:38)
On one of my sites most of my searches come from google but most of my users are aol. But I also have mostly direct requests.

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