MSN sends me no traffic, even if I rank on 1st page !

Hello,

You might get this weird but it is true.
I am on the first page on MSN for general web directory and for seo friendly general web directory and despite that in the last month I got only 1 unique visitor on my directory.ipgp.net.I just cannot believe it !

Having this in mind... I am wondering... how much share does MSN have ? is it so insignificant search engine ? Is it happening to you too ?

 

Yup - that's normal I would say. It simply tells you that SEO is just one component. If you optimise for the wrong search engine you can still end without business...

Rgds

 

Not a lot of people use MSN so there is a lack of traffic.

 

MSN is uselss and u r so right bout no.1 rank. wonder what kind of people search msn and what do they actually search.

 

and why do they keep and maintain it then ?


PS: to be sincere.. the first and last time I used MSN it was to search for my web directory on it to see the ranking situation...

 

I sometimes use MSN to make an image search.
The results are usually better than Google's.

 

actually when i found traffic stats between hotmail.com(msn netwrk) and google.com(google netwrk) i was stunned... msn was far better than google.... so it can some other reasons for ur traffic-loss...

 

Maybe if you shot for improving on the keyword of "directory" "web directory" "site directory" the simple words. If grabbed #1, you'd probably get 100's of uniques.

 

Those are pretty brutal keywords. Even ranking on the 1st page on Google for those keywords wouldn't do much for you.

MSN can give decent traffic if you pick up good rankings for more highly searched keywords and phrases.

 

dlm's right. Those aren't effective keywords to target. Sure, it's easier to get top rankings for obscure terms that aren't targetted by other websites, but you'll attract little traffic, if any. MSN holds almost 10 per cent of the overall search engine market share; that's nothing to sneeze at! Yahoo has about 24 per cent and Google about 50 per cent. Best to target all three, and some of the smaller ones if you're serious about SEO.

 

You should not worry to much about MSN. Google is the search engine where most of your traffic should come from. Besides not many people use MSN search.

 

I found out that my entertainment site gets some traffic from msn but my tecnical site don't get much although both of them ranks well.Generally tecnical searchers are conservative and stick what they are using, since your keywords are for webmasters this does not surprise me.

 

I have a pretty similar issue. I am ranked on the first page of MSN as well as Yahoo for some certain keywords, but traffic from them have been minimal. Looks like I'm not the only one.

 

it's strange, maybe you should try to contact them to ask

 

use google.com

 

question you need to ask is how many searched are performed for these keywords.

I found before live.com released msn.com or msn.co.uk used to send far more traffic!

 

MSN not prefered like Google or Yahoo. Maybe so don't send visitor.

 

How many search volume/day

what is title of that pages, and content that show?

I think it is important factor

 

MSN entertains new websites, but getting some quality traffic from it is difficult as most of the net users prefer google. of course, I get some traffic from and a few sales from msn. its not that bad.

 

i get a fair amount of traffic from msn, however, I think perhaps the keywords you've tergeted are the issue,

even on google, traffic volume for those would be very low