How much traffic does Altavista bring you?

How much traffic is your web site getting from Altavista?

[vik_c]

I was wondering whether anyone here is getting any decent traffic through Altavista because I don't seem to. Would the webmasters here be willing to share numbers, what percentage of traffic to your site is sent by Altavista?

[rytis]

1% of SE traffic Aug-Sept, for computer related site. Rankings more less similar to Google and others, no paid listings.

[Macguru]

3.04 % for top 5s on many sites and topics.

[vitaplease]

[webmasterworld.com...]

for my main multi-lingual site (stronger European audience):

Altavista

2002 3,3 %
2001 5.1 %

MSN passed AV in 2002 in ref.% for me.

[chopsticks]

My AltaVista rankings are VERY VERY high. Almost always in the top ten, often in the top three.

Basically I get the most traffic from MSN, second most from AltaVista.

Quite simply the Google listings are full of SPAM/doorway pages. AltaVista has gotten better about yanking out the garbage.

True, when I did have top rankings in Google they produced 300-500% more traffic than AltaVista... but the problem is KEEPING those google listings!

[skibum]

No more than 0-3% of total referrals for a wide variety of sites, often closer to 0%. AV has fallen off the map. Google, YAHOO!, MSN are the top referrers for clients with a brand name. For those without its anywhere up to 90% Google/YAHOO!

[tigger]

2% if I'm lucky, it won't be long before AV goes along the same route as Hotbot and vanishes

[amoore]

None, and if I don't ban it, scooter is always one of the user agents that pulls the most bytes from me each week. I have to top 3 slots for most of the important keywords to my main site, too.

[chiyo]

AVreferrals at less than 1% and declining.

About 3 to 4 months ago, we were seeing major increases from AV but in the last week or two its dropped back to neglible. better than teoma and alltheweb but behind AOL and a long way behind Google and MSN.

Havent bothered to check rankings so not sure its because of a reindex or just drop of in traffic to AV.

[zeb]

For me AV has been a very positive surprise. My main site was listed free by them in June and the traffic has been increasing month by month. Now in September about 7% of all SE traffic comes from AV. They are far from Google but close to MSN.

it won't be long before AV goes along the same route as Hotbot and vanishes

I've heard these predictions so often here at Webmasterworld, that last spring I was going to ban Scooter. Im glad I didn't!:)

[rfgdxm1]

I'm getting a bit less than 1% of SE traffic from Altavista, and I do have decents SERPs there. The traffic to my 2 sites is most definitely skewed to teenagers and young adults, and it isn't tech oriented. I might tend to think Altavista users may skew a bit to those who are more mature. Altavista was once a lot more notable a SE than today.

[DrCool]

I am seeing around 2% from a new site I am working on. I never even submitted it to Altavista and only have a few listings there. I am almost positive that Altavista spiders Yahoo to get new sites. Many times in the past when I have submitted a site to Yahoo it appears in Altavista a day or two later.

[volatilegx]

I have top ten placement for virtually all of my keywords on AV and traffic is very low... in the 1-2% range.

[pageoneresults]

And to think that AV sold for 4 Billion a few years ago, incredible! From riches to rags...

Less than 3%, even using PFI.

[rcjordan]

Looks like less than 1% and declining. Wisenut now beats it on the site I'm now tracking.

[nell]

From 3% 6 months ago down to less than 1% today. Google/Yahoo/AOL are the biggest referrers followed by MSN.
Sales conversion percentages are much higher with Google/Yahoo/AOL than with any other. It seems that they're the people who know what they want and go to the best search engine to find it.

[jeremy goodrich]

I'll add that I believe they get sites from Yahoo too, or new sites from domains which are recently registered...

Either way, I haven't had to submit anything to get listed / ranked / usually in the top spots...I think their current algo might prefer 'fresh' stuff.

However, their referral percentage is down to less than 1%

...though I will say, they have been the first search engine to drive referrals many times on many sites. Only thing is, a fresh db with new stuff doesn't matter if nobody uses the thing.

Wisenut isn't beating them, but on a couple sites, they are neck and neck :)

[hskfun]

Less than 2% for a site that generates > 1 M uniq's / month.