More people might use Google but funnily enough I find for my adsense sites that the Yahoo and Live /MSN traffic is more profitable
Most of the people use google and i expect very few people use other search engines like yahoo,msn,etc....
Here's the list from my Awstats. I would love to get more MSN traffic but not a clue on how to optimise for it. Numbers aren't there for me to bother learning either. Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list - Google 2610 2611 - Windows Live 167 167 - Yahoo! 84 86 - Google (Images) 64 103 - Unknown search engines 50 51 - AOL 27 27 - MSN Search 23 23 - Ask 12 12 - Tiscali 2 2 - Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark) 2 2 - Alexa 1 1 - WebCrawler 1 1 - Lycos 1 1 - Virgilio 1 1 - Google (cache) 1 1 - Scroogle 1 1 - AltaVista 1 1
Below is for one of my sites, but typical of all of my sites: Google 1365 Yahoo 65 MS Live+MSN 57 The issue is then "if I ignore the others, do I miss an audience that I really want?" /*tom*/
I completely agree with you on this one. Giving just one company almost the entire market share in such a big industry can be really dangerous.