MSN = 0 Traffic??

I have a similar situation. I also rank well for my keywords on MSN and have for a while now yet I get very little traffic from them.

 

msn can be a good source for my sites that do not do well with google. especially for new sites of mine.

 

msn is pretty bad, when your new you alwasy get index near the top but once your their you don't even get good traffic.

 

I was number 1 at MSN search with the most important keywords related to my portal (that is no longer available ) and below, below, below top 1000 at Google and Yahoo results .

Regardless of this, I got literally hundred's of times more visits form Google using worse and less frequent words than form MSN using the best keywords.

Summary: I guess few people uses MSN as search engine. I wished to be as good positioned at Google as I was at MSN

P.S. My portal was built using IIS + SQL SERVER + ASP.NET, everything MS technologies. Coincidence...?

 

MSN will be start giving us traffic when Vista launches.

 

Ummm... No. MSN search can very well be a very good source of traffic. I consistently get a good deal of traffic from MSN at one site, at least in the hundreds a day.

I still get a lot more traffic from Google (3~6x as much as MSN), but that doesn't make MSN worthless.

Checking the number of referrers, I have tens of thousands. Google is still #1 at the moment though.

However, MSN traffic does seem to follow a different pattern than Google. If you can latch onto a few good SERPs there, it can be very worthwhile. I have 1 key phrase that sends a ton of traffic and pretty much dwarfs other traffic from MSN.

 

Unfortunatly,
an anti-trust lawsuit stopped them from forcing any search engine on people.

 

Ash1,

Sign up for an MSN Adcenter Account, you'll have access to there reports.

BJ

 

Sure, but nobody prevents MS from making MSN/Live the default search engine and, as opposite as in Firefox, they will likely not install by default their competitors' search boxes

So, the users must install the third party search boxes.

 

ranked top 5 in MSN for most of my keywords and I get almost no traffic..I am on the second page on Yahoo and Google for the same keywords and get decent traffic.

I think I saw some numbers on the news recently that said MSN has about 18% of the search market.....I've been doing SEO for more than a year and I want to know WHAT 18%

I think I'm gonna do some deep digging to see if anyone is using MSN these days.

 

yep...i too don't get much traffic from msn, i get mostly from google.

But as far as i know its easy to get traffic from msn for new sites, so if your site is new, you can easily get traffic from msn....getting traffic from google is a bit tough for new sites!

 

This has too be totally bogus. There is no way that MSN has this much traffic.

Thanks for all the posts everybody!

 

msn performs poor for me

 

MSN is almost 0, but yahoo = 0

 

I get some traffic from MSN to my blog. But what matters is Google. Google is King.

 

Ditto. Although Yahoo is almost the same as MSN. Both are still waaaaay behind google anyway.

 

if you sell any product in ur site..then..spending time on Msn is a good thing...becuz research shows...tht....msn search converts into a transaction more than any other search engine...

 

I agree with the concensus. Google is king. Hard to get the best placement but well worth the effort in terms of sheer numbers.