Page 1 MSN - Comparative Traffic?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by northpointaiki, Jan 20, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi all - I am now page 1 MSN for many of my primary keywords. But traffic has not appreciably climbed (well, OK, appreciably yes, especially in Adsense; but enough to write home about, no).

    My question goes to whether anyone has done a study on their sites of comparative traffic driven by MSN v. Google v. Yahoo, etc., in terms of actual percentages?

    Is there a datasource out there with these kinds of stats?

    Thanks.
     
    northpointaiki, Jan 20, 2006 IP
  2. kneukm03

    kneukm03 Active Member

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    From memory, the market share numbers are roughly 10% MSN 20% Yahoo 60% Google. But there are also significant differences in the amount of people who actually go to the search results (also from memory, I believe it was roughly 70/30 split for Google natural results vs. clicking on the ads at the top, 30/70 the other way around for Yahoo and MSN).
     
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  3. Wiep

    Wiep Peon

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    Do you mean this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=51936

    Or do you mean if there's a difference between the click trough ratios of visitors from different search engines?
     
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  4. northpointaiki

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    Perfect. Great info. Thanks.
     
    northpointaiki, Jan 20, 2006 IP
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    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    Like most on this forum, I have considerably more first page results with MSN than with Google or Yahoo. Statistically for me this translates into page loads as follows:

    51% Google
    33% MSN
    16% the rest, mostly Yahoo
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    A #1 on MSN for me translates to about 7-8% percent of the traffic that the same word on google will provide. Yahoo is less - probably because the #1 listing is more than 1/2 way down the page - after ads, news, yahoo shopping, etc.
     
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  7. northpointaiki

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    Thanks all. Great info.
     
    northpointaiki, Jan 23, 2006 IP