Return of Ink?

MSN/Ink now sends as much traffic as google!

[webdevsf]

I've had my site crawled by Inktomi several months ago. Just yesterday, the results appeared on MSN, and I'm now receiving as much free traffic from MSN as I am from Google (~1500 per day from each)

Anyone else had this experience?

[Mohamed_E]

No. Inktomi has crawled me fully (for free), and I do about as well in their serps as in Google's. But currently I get about 85% of my SE referrals fro Yahoogle, 10% from MSN (all Ink) and 5% from everyone else.

[Visit Thailand]

I am roughly the same. Stats for this Jan so far.

Google 54.61%
Yahoo 20.43%
MSN 16.40%

[defanjos]

Anyone else had this experience?

Yes, msn is sending a lot of traffic, and in some sites it beats Google

[makemetop]

Get it right and INK traffic can be big. I average 25% from MSN/INK across the board. That amounts to many thousands of uniques per day - and the traffic converts into sales better than Google!

However Yahoo surfers also tend to be buyers - so that boosts the Google sales ratio - but that might all change soon!

[SlyGuy]

Hmmm, just checked our stats for the past 10 days, and it appears to be "situation:normal".

Along the lines of Mohamed_E's stats, we're currently at:

Google - 68.87%
Yahoo - 17.33%
Microsoft Network - 9.05%

[bcushion]

Yes, since the day after Christmas MSN has been climbing steadily. It now delivers 10% more traffic to me than Google and still stretching the gap. Increase in Google traffic, too. (MSN search vs. Google search - not counting Yahoo, AOl, etc.)

[Brett_Tabke]

A site near you today (no not this one - I wish...):
9200 google and google tlds.
1300 yahoo
360 msn
245 meta searches
165 alltheweb
28 teoma
22 altavista
0 looksmart
0 wisenut

[pradcliff]

how do you guys generate 1500 visits a day without pay per click? I would gladly pay someone to get me that kind of traffic

[Brett_Tabke]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[tigger]

Well for the first time in months MSN has now knocked G.co.uk into third place.

It's still got some way to go before it catches G.com but it's a nice relief to see some other SE's in the top other than G.com & .co.uk

Keep it up Ink :)

[spaidermen]

Brett, in that referrer count, do searches performed in Yahoo powered by Google count towards Googgle or Yahoo count?
And what about Aol/Google and Lycos/Fast not appearing in the count? Are they counted as Google and Alltheweb?

[garry]

Gee Brett

0 clicks for Looksmall!

I'll bet you still get that wonderful email indicating you have used up your monthly quota, and scratch your head like many others.

[webdevsf]

Getting 1500 clicks per day for free from Google/MSN hasn't been easy. We've been developing this database-driven website for 2 1/2 years (launched a year ago) and spent a lot of time trying to figure this out (reading webmasterworld and the like...) We have someone doing bizdev and a bunch of smart guys trying to figure out how to maximize traffic.

I've got a friend in marketing at a large PR9 site who says he gets 500,000 clicks from google a month.

[Liane]

My stats only show the top 30 referrers every day. I've combined the various google, msn, yahoo and link stats.

2,049 56.8% Google

513 14% Yahoo

434 11.8% MSN

411 11.2% Links

109 2.98% AOL

49 1.35% Ask Jeeves

36 1% Bookmarks

29 .8% Netscape.com

21 .59% Altavista

19 .52% Dogpile
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3,670

LookSmart, Wisenut, Teoma, Hot Bot, All the Web, Lycos and the meta search engines were not in the top 30 referers and each had between 0 and 19 referrals.

[SlyGuy]

Hmm...that "Bookmarks" search engine looks like a good source of traffic, where might I find the URL, Liane?

;)

- Chad

[spaidermen]

Liane, same question: Yahoo count refers to the directory alone, or google listings incorporated in Yahoo?

[Liane]

I just threw in the bookmarks thing so the stats wouldn't be off. :)

The Yahoo numbers are all hits from Yahoo. Directory and Google listings.