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What are other big traffic sources other than Google and Yahoo?? I mean, at least for USA market..
Please, give advice what is worth the efforts and what is not!
Also, sometime ago I heard about the new engine that has even better relevancy than Google, but much faster and so on.. What is the title?????
Thank you!
Tell me more. Do you have a special deal?
Thank you!
Probably WiseNut or Teoma.
Teoma has a great system and they are expanding it with the AskJeeves purchase, but they are still a bit on the small side. WiseNut also has a killer se, but the verdict is out on the hardware behind it yet - they've had quite a few offline hours since going final. Nether have yet to produce much traffic, but we all expect that to change in 2002. Teoma is setting there with untold page views ready at the flip of the "full live - you're on Teoma" AskJeeves power switch. WiseNut has some very interesting industry connections and I have faith they will leverage them into something good next year.
AllTheWeb - not great traffic direct from them, but they have a serious set of quality alliances. Lycos, Terra, and many big se's in Europe. In canada, they are on Sympatico.com, the lartest isp in Canada (huge). So there is traffic there, but it is roundabout. They are to Europe what Ink used to be to the US.
MSN, Hotbot, eg - the ink pits of doom. Don't even think about it unless you have a deep checkbook.
The artists formerly known as Excite and Altavista. Look for a merciful pulling of the plug in 2002. The only question remaining, is who is going to pick the remains clean. (sorry excite/alta).
And last but not least - NorthernLight. Let me get the tradition over with:
We have great hope that NorthernLight will see a grand resurgance of traffic and usage in 2002. Ok, that's out of the way. We've been doing that every year since 1996(?) - the dark ages. They have a great little system, if they would only hire someone who didn't learn html from a book. ugh - our continuing winner of the worst designed se of the year award. They need to get with the program - or hire someone who knows what the program is.
that's interesting! Mind sharing more details, Eric?
Spanish and German visitors seem mostly to come from the relevant versions of MSN, google, yahoo, altavista and lycos...French, Arabic and Portuguese traffic is from a wide variety of sources...Dutch and Danish have a single dominant SE so we get very high traffic from those two...with Chinese there are other busy SEs other than Sohu, but I'm finding it very difficult to get registered in Chinese
