I had a number one postion in both MSN and Yahoo for the same keywords and Yahoo was about 2 1/2 time more traffic than MSN.
MSN is low in traffic for certain keyword but strong in others. Any Keywords related to webmaster does not do well in MSN regarding how well you perform I guess!
Hmmm I guess I am very confused because when I ranked on MSN for a ton of Microsoft terms I was doing a hell of a job with traffic but now I rank on Yahoo for SEO, Online Marketing, Web Design, Web Design Company and I see hardly no traffic at all. It's so odd. The terms get 7000 searches a day on average so I should do well but I am not.
Overture claims that 33,000 people per month search for web hosting company. So a thousand searches per day.. Im #3 on msn for web hosting company and got a whopping 3 hits this month so far 10 days in... on yahoo i would have had at least 50-100 clicks on the third slot out of the 10,000 searches over 10 days.. Im thinking MSN is possibly a little worse than 10-1 im thinking 50-1
Im glad i found this post it confifmed for me what i was already suspicious of. MSN claims to have as much traffic as yahoo within 10 % variance or so. if the truth is 10 times the traffic then MSN needs to quit telling us stories about there traffic.
And what responsibility does MSN have to you? Are you a paying customer? Or are you talking about the FREE traffic that they give you? Get over it. Now, having said that - indeed, MSN seems to have much lower traffic for certain SEGMENTS. For instance, I am number 4 for "stock market" at MSN. Alas, no traffic - or very little. But, I have heard others say that for celebrity, ringtone and other "pop" type of searches - MSN can bring in loads of traffic.
I am working on a site with positions in Yahoo! and MSN being very similar. In march, Yahoo! referred 15.4% of total search engine traffic while MSN referred 23.8% Positions in google are worse then MSN and Yahoo! but Google referred 48.4% Terms for this site are related to the automotive industry, specifically B2B targeted. I expected traffic from Yahoo! to be significantly higher than traffic from MSN
I got 118 hits of position 10 in msn.co.uk yesterday for a keyword. Traffic does vary quite a bit with these engines.
i dunno we get more traffic from MSN.... although our conversion rates are better when people come in from Yahoo...
of course yahoo give you maximun traffic but conversion rate of msn is much much better than yahoo and google
Yahoo and MSN both deliever pathetic traffic. They need to do something quick or they will just have to close up shop because Google continues to dominate.