Hello, I am trying to broaden my horizons by figuring out how to get myself on other search engines. I am slightly concerned about 2 things however. 1. Does anyone use other search engines besides google? 2. Is there something special I have to do to get myself placed at these other search engnes or do they have webcrawlers that automate the process, and what is their crawlers looking for different than google?
I think G, MSN and Y! own like over 90% of search mkt share. Last I heard Ask Jeeves had about 3% ? So I think you should just optimize for the big 3, and those efforts will also work on the other small engines.
My current SE split: Google: 68% Yahoo!: 14% msn: 6% Ask: ~1% And really, I just optimize w/ Google in-mind and it usually works for the other engines as well (long-term).
I agree. The 3 major search engines were responsible for over 80 percent of the searches and the other 62 combined were responsible for less than 20 percent. So if you do fine on google, yahoo and msn, traffic should be coming in steadily.
Ask Jeeves has been coming on strong lately. For a few of my sites they are top SE referrer. (yes I was shocked...)
Google is the main search engine. I do get a lot of traffic from the other country googles like google UK. Next would be Yahoo and MSN. AllTheWeb.com is probably the only other search engine I see.