Is it worth it to try to get a good ranking on MSN search engine?

Is it really worth any effort to get a good ranking on msn search engine?

 

Depends on your niche

 

I would suggest to look at the market share of search engines .. msn is way too low .. ie doesn't have much traffic so not worth the effort imho

 

Of course it is worth it. Almost any source of steady, quality traffic is worthwhile. Sure it makes more sense to target Google more, but you shouldn't ignore msn.

The low traffic that people claim msn has is still far, far more than any of your websites will ever get. Multiply their market share by the approximate number of people searching the web every day. The number wouldn't look so low anymore.

 

if it can help bring in people, why not?
many webmasters don't pay attention to any search engine except from Google.
i believe it to be wrong.
i've got a site about Mauritius that gets only about 40% of it's traffic from google and the rest is spread between yahoo, live, msn and a couple of smaller ones. the page has PR3

 

As long as you can get traffic from it, then why not? I understand why many focus on Google, but that still doesn't mean MSN and Yahoo! are worthless

 

I know there are lots of different factors and plenty of conjecture about what helps a site to rank but I have noticed that an exact key-phrase as the domain is an element that MSN really seems to like.

I have also found it to be very useful with Google as well. So if it's possible at the start of a project then it might be a good idea to consider that.

 

This depends on niche and targeted traffic . Like Google is globally used but their are few browsers and search option which commonly used is specific countries . Like to increase our Alexa rankings we target USA and UK webmasters like this msn must also be region based .

 

Put yourself in the shoes of a normal internet surfer. Say your niche is about "Business Excellence". Which search engine would you use to search more info about this subject. Of course, google .

I usually follow this rule: Optimize my website for Google, it is automatically optimized for other search Engines....

 

ofcoruse its worth it. it can't hurt you, will only help you.

 

A site has good content, I believe whether or msn google ranking will be higher, not too concerned about！

 

I think it's worth it because you need to get traffic from as many places as you can so why not

 

The road to the top 10 of Google will often lead to top rankings in MSN as well. The notion that you optimize for a specific search engine is silly.

 

Google is the king to send traffic, but MSN can send a drivel here and there. If you optimize for google, MSN is sure to follow.

 

It would not hurt to have good ranking on msn because
you may receive some traffic from it.

 

it depends first to your client if it wants you to make their site rank. next is the niche and your keywords selected and finally the competition

 

not a bad idea even.

 

You would get 1x to 2x traffic.
sometimes it worth $1.
it's good than nothing.

 

I get good traffic from msn, more than yahoo, but could be my niche.

 

We should also optimize website for yahoo and msn. Most of the people depends on only google for the traffic. But its hard to get rank in all the main search engines. If one of the page is top in yahoo then its not necessary that you will get high rank in google and msn too. All are using different algos. But we do hard work to generate traffic from all sides.