These are based on some stats on my main website - from w/e Sunday 4 July: 1. Google UK 44.76% 2. Google 38.65% 3. Google Ireland 1.97% 4. Google Spain 1.97% 5. Google Netherlands 1.75% 6. Yahoo 1.53% 7. Google Canada 1.31% 8. Google Germany 1.31% 9. MSN Search 1.31% 10. Google Belgium 1.09% 11. Google Italy 1.09% 12. Google Australia 0.66% 13. Google France 0.66% 14. Google Finland 0.44% 15. Google Poland 0.44% 16. AOL Search 0.22% 17. BBCi Search 0.22% 18. Google Austria 0.22% 19. Google Japan 0.22% 20. Google Sweden 0.22% It's bad news when Google Netherlands outshines Yahoo! So, what are we talking here, bad SEO on Yahoo / MSN or Google is simply unbeatable? Your thoughts welcome! Darren
Just to compare, search engine traffic for the last week for some of my sites are as follows: www.digitalpoint.com Google (US and international) - 74.23% Yahoo - 17.49% MSN - 6.52% AltaVista - 0.71% AOL - 0.61% Ask Jeeves - 0.28% DMOZ - 0.03% Excite - 0.03% Web.de - 0.01% HotBot - 0.01% All The Web - 0.01% Lycos - 0.01% DirectHit - 0.01% forums.digitalpoint.com Google (US and international) - 94.01% Yahoo - 3.6% AOL - 1.05% MSN - 0.72% Excite - 0.57% Lycos - 0.01% InfoSpace - 0.01% www.sendwu.com Google (US and international) - 55.89% Yahoo - 24.76% MSN - 15.84% AOL - 2.57% AltaVista - 0.44% Ask Jeeves - 0.25% Lycos - 0.18% Excite - 0.03% www.ccapplication.com Google (US and international) - 78.94% Yahoo - 13.15% MSN - 2.63% AOL - 2.63% AltaVista - 2.63% One thing it looks like to me, is that Google users are more technical/Internet savvy than Yahoo/MSN users, but even on the site where I get the least Google traffic, it's still more than all other search engines combined.
Can you imagine what would happen if Google disappeared Scary stuff - I've always thought it was bad SEO on Yahoo / MSN on my part, which it could still be, but even if I work my ass off for 2 weeks on optimising for Yahoo and MSN it's not going to be make much different to my traffic! Darren
I just did a roll thru, like you, and came to some different results, but I would agree most definitely with the statement above as, on the Food site the "delis", MSN was highest [ 37% ] in % and yahoo [25%] and google [21%] whereas on other sites with more, how do I say, interesting sophisticated people looking for expensive holidays [not sure there is a relationship here] the figures are reversed, and then some! Interesting roll thru !
Here are my Search Engine stats ... Our site doesn't target very technical/internet savvy people so here is something to compare to. www.mables.com Google - 53.7 % Yahoo - 17 % Google (Images) - 9.2 % MSN - 6.5 % Atomz - 4.3 % AOL - 2.5 % Netscape - 1 % Ask Jeeves - 0.8 % Unknown search engines - 0.7 % Dogpile - 0.5 % AltaVista - 0.5 % Earth Link - 0.3 % Overture - 0.2 % Excite - 0.2 % Lycos - 0.9 % AllTheWeb - 0.1 % InfoSpace - 0.1 % DMOZ - 0.1 % It's a retail store so ...
I have seen reports that Yahoo doesn't like to link to sites that have google ads (adsense). It would be interesting to know if all of the above sites had google ads?
I have sites that have Adsense, and sites that don't. Traffic from Yahoo,and being crawled by it's bot, are both patheticly slow on sites with and without Adsense. It doesn't seem to make any difference at all.
How could I check my site state? It's amazing to me that you guys could get such detailed reports about the search engine traffic.
Use your log files. Ask DP what log reader he uses.... it is probably some binary code reader or something.
My site - mables.com doesn't have adsense. We use AWStats as our log reader. It came in our control panel by default with the host we signed up with. There are other log readers installed as well (Urchin, Webalizer, and an analog text only type, although I prefer AWStats.
Our schoolies site is #1 on google, msn and yahoo and it uses adsense. Traffic last week was: Google 79% Yahoo 12% MSN 8% Other 1% PS - our traffic is from 17 / 18 year olds.
Just a piece of friendly advice: Although Google is quite dominant (for now) there is a bunch of traffic still to be had from Yahoo and MSN. The MSN spiders have been so busy lately that there are reports that normal web visitors have trouble getting into a site that is in the process of getting spidered by MSN. AJ
Why wouldn't they, they make a ton of money off of G's stock, so it's in their best interest to have adsense do well. Kind of a paradox wouldn't you say?