Analyze and compare the top 3 engines

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Blogmaster, Apr 5, 2005.

  1. #1
    does anyone here have the same results in Yahoo!, Google and msn.
    If so could you shine some light on the amounts of clicks you receive from each engine and where exactly you are positioned for that keyterm?

    No need to mention the keyterm btw.


    Thank you so much,


    Mike
     
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  2. anthonycea

    anthonycea Banned

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    Not really possible any more TOOT, maybe close but since Yahoo dumped Google it would be rare, as you know Google results used to be on all three engines at one time.
     
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  3. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    I'm ranked number one for several sites across all three.

    For March:

    web design for my local city, primary keyword phrase number one on all three:
    - Google 100 100
    - MSN 54 54
    - Yahoo 9 9

    auto parts store, primary keyword phrase number one on all three::
    - Google 12729 12730
    - Yahoo 4183 4402
    - MSN 3839 3839
    - AOL 683 683
    - Netscape 197 197
    - Unknown search engines 185 185
    - Dogpile 106 106
    - AltaVista 76 76

    consumer electronics store, primary keyword phrase number one on all three:
    - Yahoo 437 461
    - Google 145 145
    - MSN 91 91

    I have a few more that are close (top ten across all three).
     
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    anthonycea Banned

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    Must be unique keywords GTech, I have never seen that unless they are odd words.

    Can you explain the way your numbers are presented.

    1000 1000

    What do the two sets of numbers mean?
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    Unique, probably. I'm certainly not ranking top for terms like pharmacy, car rentals, insurance, etc. But they are top positions and relative to the business of the sites.

    There are probably more. The automotive site ranks top across the three for many popular terms, but I don't track them so much. The site does 50gig in traffic per months and does considerable sales. It's been top for many products for almost a year now, since I started doing SEO work on it.

    Numbers are copied straight out of AWStats. First is from the pages column, second from the hits column.
     
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    Thanks for the information GTech :eek:
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    I just checked the automotive site. I'm doing well for individual parts, some fairly popular ones, with top 1-5 on MSN and Google. Yahoo doesn't rank as well for the individual products I checked (just a handfull).

    Last year, about August, the site was doing 300 uniques per day and had been stagnant there for at least a year or two. Most sales/traffic came from forums. I started doing SEO work (no linking at all, just the basic common sense SEO) and we've gone up considerably in traffic and sales. Where 300 hits per day was the norm, we're at 1200-1500 per day now.

    I can only image if I ever decided to throw some coop weight at it. The site is a PR4, very few links to it, other than forums and a few enthusiasts who link to us.
     
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    The same placement in MSN / Yahoo /Google gives huge result variances.

    Google generates at least 3x traffic for similar rank on other 2 SE's.
     
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    I am number one for one of my terms in all three (rare these days) and the breakdown is (Search Engines Only)

    80% Google
    10% MSN
    6% Yahoo
    2% Ask.co.uk
    2% Other

    I would love to predict the end of Google and the dominance of MSN but when I rank at the same spot for both, Google always dominates.
     
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