AskJeeves

does anyone here have good rankings and does receive traffic from AskJeeves.
I just saw their new commercials on TV and was wondering if they actually benefit some of us.


Mike

 

AskJeeves was my bandwidth killer before I'd disallow it via robots.txt

 

And just about 1-3 visitors for 100,000 pages site

 

AskJeeves has been doing alot of tv advertising in the uk, i think i might start making my site aj friendly

 

They hit me for 8k plus views on numerous sites last month. Still waiting to show up in their index. Domains don't even list.

 

One or two visitors a day from ASK. Mostly surfers looking for info, rather than to buy

 

I get one a week from ASKJEEVES if I am lucky.

 

Ask Jeeves frames web pages from their SERPs. It's hard to know exactly how much traffic their SERPs are really driving to a site AFAIK.

 

>does anyone here have good rankings and does receive traffic from AskJeeves.
FWIW, I'm on page one for my main KW (city + KW) and get around 1.5% of my SE traffic from AJ.

 

10 per day from Ask.

And you should see the search queries- How ridiculous!

 

Yeh I saw them, I cannot see anyone clicking on the organic results unless it is for a keyterm that noone pays for

 

Ask ranks about number 23 (out of the 30 top referral sites) with around 680 referrals on one of our busier sites. So I would have to say "yes". We do see quite a bit from them.

This particular site saw 44,452 requests for our main keyword which ranks 1 in just about every SE. Time period: from July 04 to present date. So if you put this into perspective, 680 from Ask out of 44,452 (this does not include all search times btw). I've got 52,579 in from Google over the same time period, with MSN lagging in around 15,000.

 

Last week, 0.05% of our search engine referrals were AJ - or 34 visits. It'd be nice if they delivered some more traffic.

How does one optimise for Ask?

 

That was going to be my next question. The results look familiar but not sure what search engine or directory I have seen them at before.

 

When I optomized for inktomi, it worked well for AJ. I have great rankings and get about 1 referral a day. I would never concentrate on them, but if you are doing a decent amount of on-page SEO and off page SEO, they will follow the others. They return a lot of sponsored links though, on top of their listings - so even a number 1 is like a #5.

 

Results for one of my domains on Ask look exactly as they do in DMOZ - one to one.

 

Just a little info. I saw a very nice commercial adviertising ask jeeves the other night. I liked it and thought it was nice. It even was a little more appealing than the msn commercials I have seen.

 

Ask jeeves is my number 4 search engine that brings me the most traffic. Stats for this month:

Google 33591 33652
- Yahoo 4234 4800
- Google (Images) 3997 5032
- Ask Jeeves 894 909
- MSN 702 706
- AOL 300 300
- Ask Jeeves UK 293 308
- AltaVista 237 312
- Unknown search engines 126 126
- Lycos 86 86

Ask jeeves is at spot #1 for the number of robot hits this month:

AskJeeves 142140+67 924.96 MB 24 Mrt 2005 - 07:46

Nevertheless Google still rocks

 

Jeeves ranks around 7th on my list...(1%) but they are number one on my robot list as well (by far)... wonder where they are hiding all my content... ;-)