MSN Traffic

Discussion in 'Bing' started by mgrohan, Jun 23, 2006.

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    I know google and yahoo are way in front in terms of people using their search engines, but are there really that few people using MSN search.

    I mean internet explorer defaults to MSN. MSN is 2nd on Alexa. Why is traffic so low for the search then. I have 10+ sites that have first page SERPs (most of them top position) for main keywords (multiple for each sites).

    But the traffic is non-existant. Less than Wikipedia links :confused: :confused:
     
    mgrohan, Jun 23, 2006 IP
  2. Mong

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    MSN has very little market share of search queries.
    I don't know why msn is on rank 2 in alexa. :eek:
     
    Mong, Jun 23, 2006 IP
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    hans Well-Known Member

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    the traffic on sub domains is counted toward the domain itself
    the alexa details reveal reasons from where the actual domain traffic comes from

    # hotmail.msn.com - 75%
    # search.msn.com - 7%
    # spaces.msn.com - 7%
    # msn.com - 2%
    # msnbc.msn.com - 1%
    # arabia.msn.com - 1%
    # latam.msn.com - 1%
    # moneycentral.msn.com - 1%
    # Other websites - 5%

    it may be save to assume that many of the subdomain visitors such as spaces and others never even touch msn main site or search
    msn search being 7 % only
    that would give msn search on a separate domain far less than alexa 2 or 3 rank

    my own msn traffic is so low than even minor search engines might do better or a good link in a good forum brings more traffic than msn
     
    hans, Jun 23, 2006 IP
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    ash1 Active Member

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    Do you think MSN traffic for their search will skyrocket after they officially release MSN LIVE?

    they claim to have very big plans in future with LIVE
     
    ash1, Jun 25, 2006 IP
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    Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list
    - MSN 741 766
    - Google 227 227
    - Yahoo 46 46
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    it could be the young age of my site that has MSN on top because i am no where in the SERPs on google or the fact that the people interested in my topic use MSN. I hope for the day when I can say those 700 hits from MSN mean nothing to me.

    JS
     
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    I have read some logs that suggest that demographics play a big role. MSN search may well appeal to a bit older, feminine base of users.
     
    willybfriendly, Jun 25, 2006 IP