I believe no one's even searching yahoo or msn anymore.

5200 uniques on one site, and 5800 on another so far this month from MSN. Unfortunatly, G is less that 500 for both. Weird eh? Fairly new sites though. Point is MSN can drive some good traffic also.

 

Exactly, Google is not the only show in town!

 

As to your adwords example, I don't know anything about overture's ppc system, but does it have something similar to broad matching/content network? If you've got either of those two things on, it will dramatically expand the number of clicks you get beyond what the actual search term would give you. There've been some threads recently on how broad matching in Google is going extremely wide, including phrases that are product names but don't even have your term in them. Overture must have a content network style thing because of the YPN thing, but I'm just not sure if it's on by default.

 

I find MSN and Yahoo much better.

 

Yahoo has brought me almost 20,000 visitors to one of my older sites this month for a more niche area, strangley for a one word popular term I have had barely anything to speak of, very strange results for different terms.

 

I have two sites that I watch closely. One ranks #2 for an extremely competitive term. I get a few hundred visitors a week from that phrase on that engine. You would think it would be thousands a day (it would be itf it where on G)

The other site- multimillion online advertising budget. The costs for Yahoo are about half of Adwords, and the conversions are about a sixth.

SoI agree, Yahoo sucks, people do seem to be using it less and less. (plus their systems and their service are laughable)

 

I have one new site which is only ranked on Y and gets most of its traffic from there.
It does not give as much traffic as I would expect though - traffic is 200 visitors/day from a page one listing with 1,000,000 searches per month according to overture. I would expect 10 times as much if this was google.

 

One thing MSN is better than Google is that their user is 48% more likely to purchase online as reported by internet marketing research.

Yahoo user also had been reported to have a greater conversion than Google.

Ho Ho Ho ... lots of clicks from google but has a low conversion. This could even mean that google user like to click on ads and do nothing

One little two little three little ..... click
Four little five little six and yet another ..... click

 

I have had the same results, I gave up on Overture as the results were poor and expensive! They also caused no end of trouble- I paid for express service with listings help, and my 20 month old son could have written better ads and links! £70 it cost me so I complained and they rewrote them. (This has now taken 2 weeks so far...) still er, less than adequate (to be polite) so I ask for my money back and they say no refunds! I phone trading standards and then quote a few laws at them and hey presto my money is refunded!!

 

We get a lot of Yahoo, some MSN, and some Google on regular search. Can't comment on the PPC.

 

my ppc from google out wieghs # 1 rankings all over the place in yahoo and msn. I wish it was different. I actually search with yahoo personally, just like the home page and results better most of the time. If I get real technical then I switch to google. Maybe Msn will really change things here soon though... Competition is good for all of us.

 

My Stat is

Google - 42%
Yahoo - 32%
MSN - 25%

 

Here are my stats for January 2006

Google 96136 86%
Yahoo 8193 7.4%
M$N 4701 4.2%
Altavista 250 0.2%
AOL 1628 1.5%
Netscape 308 0.3%

I don't know if I should be jealous of the reports of higher
percentages in M$N and Yahoo, or be grateful that Google
loves me. I certainly do love them!

 

ppc through overture seems to be very slow, I can throw a few hundred dollars into the overture account and it takes ages to use.

I could throw the same 200 in google adwords, and use it in less then a day.

Brad

 

Agree with you. I think the same: google, msn, yahoo. My website has got 2nd position in yahoo, but very little visitors from it. MSN is 2nd by amount of visitors and google kills them both

 

Very interesting. Can you please tell where have you seen that statistics? Do you maybe have some links or know some resources?

Or maybe anyone else does?

 

Wow, very nice results for google though
What's the website you're talking about? With such statistics?

P.S.: What' ppc?

 

I have a fairly new site that would have next to no traffic if it wasn't for Yahoo and MSN.

 

In most time, I use google for my search only. Google enigne is so powerful! Sufficient for me.

 

Dang! Red rep for an honest, true statement. What is up with some people?