Has anyone else noticed more relevant search results on live.com than on google or yahoo? I have very high rankings for for 4 top keywords on live.com and msn.com, but not on google or yahoo. Was wondering if this is because live.com is not used as much or because it's actually a better search engine. Google and yahoo are flooded with bogus landing pages that outrank me, but on live and msn I'm the top of the tops. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like many people are using msn search these days.
Use relevant titles, metas and don't kw stuff...you'll be surprised to see that Google and Live are pretty much similar. After some time you realize you should SEO for the end user and not the SE's as tough as that is to swallow but yes I have noticed live rankings similar to G but the traffic is simply not there, *yet*
Well you're looking at this from only one angle (the site owner). Just because it's doing well for your keywords that doesn't actually mean your site is relevant to what searchers want to see. It's the searchers that the search engines need to deliver good results for. I consistently find that Google delivers the best for me. I occasionally check out the opposition but more often than not they deliver terrible results for whatever I'm searching for.
yep, you both make good points and I have really only focused on my google rankings, just was checking my live rankings and saw how high they are. Google does give me more traffic even with 2nd and 3rd page rankings, but you're right that live and msn don't have the traffic to be very excited about.