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.
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).
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?
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
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.