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I'm Not Doing Something Right Here
September 21, 2006
I've been looking over my stats, and I think I'm missing a piece in the SEO puzzle.
Most of my visitors come to all of my sites (except one) via Google. A few of my sites show not even a single visitor coming from Yahoo and/or MSN. I do have one site that attracts mainly Yahoo visitors.
So now I'm wondering whether it is actually possible to get visitors as a balanced mix from all three search engines? Or will search results always be slanted towards one or another of the search engines?
I have always had a problem getting prominent results from Yahoo, for some reason. And I've never in the past really focused on MSN visitors.
Not that I'm complaining. Google's been very good to me, and the series of recent changes in the algorithms haven't had any effect on me. But looking at my stats today, I'm getting that "all my eggs in one basket" feeling ...
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Posted by BJ at 10:25 AM in SEO | Permalink
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I always feel that you can only optimize your sites for one search engine. If you optimze for e.g. Google, performance on the other SE will suffer :(
Posted by: Rich Backpacker | Sep 21, 2006 12:13:02 PM
I've found the same with the majority of my sites. The problem isn't the actual SE but rather the number of users using the different search engines.
Google seems to be the most priminent and I've never been able to increase my hits from either msn, yahoo or the others simply because I don't think they even have the traffic.
//Just my two cents
Posted by: Dave M | Sep 21, 2006 11:15:36 PM
It's good to know that I'm not the only one experiencing this.
I just sometimes wonder about getting more Yahoo and MSN search results because a lot of the ebooks out there seem to talk about Yahoo or MSN traffic. They make it sound like getting Yahoo or MSN hits is so incredibly easy, and you're "leaving money on the table" (don't you just love that tired, old phrase???) if you don't scoop up that traffic. Yet scooping up that traffic is something that just doesn't seem to happen with my sites.
Posted by: BJ | Sep 21, 2006 11:41:56 PM
I have sites that perform better in Yahoo or MSN, and others that do best in Google. I don't think you can get a balanced mix, unless maybe you're one of the top-top sites on the net. Even then, something like 80% of searches go through Google, so you'll always have that imbalance.
Posted by: Sapphire | Oct 2, 2006 2:41:58 PM
Wow- you're a 6!
Posted by: Jenn | Oct 3, 2006 2:46:11 PM
Actually - it looks like a n/a on my end. Probably just some sort of flux. But if I did get higher, it has to be all the trackback spam I've been getting hahaha.
Posted by: BJ | Oct 3, 2006 2:59:51 PM
