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My sites in general enjoyed greater than 70% Google traffic pre November last year. Those that were adversely affected have lost all of this and effectively gained nothing from Yahoo et al.
This is in spite of my work on these sites pushing me to the top of the Yahoo results for many of my KWs. Is anyone else seeing significant increases in Yahoo traffic wrt where they were before?
[edited by: trimmer80 at 10:59 pm (utc) on April 20, 2004]
Perhaps the days of all those eggs in the one basket are nunbered.
Round 2 still to come I think if and when MSN show us what they are made of.
Mack.
Yahoo now is my highest referrer, MSN second and Google now third. I'm not sure what this means but I would like to get my Google traffic back. Not really keeping up on the changes you spoke of, how can I tell what is causing the Google decrease and if it is something that I can correct?
Thanks!
Do you mean that you are seeing the same as me? By this I mean that you have lost all of your Google traffic?
Google 79.2%
Yahoo 10.8%
MSN 3%
AOL 2.1%
Yahoo and Google are the only ones with a fairly complete crawl. MSN only has about 3% of my pages.
Yahoo big winner in the search engine wars and savior of my sites this year, so far.
So Google is now competing with Jeeves. lol
I think that describes Google's direction pretty well from where I sit too.
63%- Yahoo
14%- MSN
12%- Ask Jeeves
3%- Google
2%- AltaVista
2%- Ask Jeeves UK
1%- Unknown search engines
1%- Dogpile
1%- Mamma
I do better with G for some sites I keep from home, but the patterns have all shifted on that traffic. It's just not the same.
Main site: massive amount of Google traffic still, way in excess of all the other referrers put togther. Google loves this one to bits. Then Yahoo, MSN, ASK, industry specific directories.
Other sites are variable, but the general trend on most of them is for a huge drop in Google traffic, with biggest increase from MSN and ASK, then Yahoo and a big increase in Dmoz referrals, especially on travel sites.
The one that's really surprised me is the big increase from MSN - way above any of the others on several sites. The problem is that it takes so long to get indexed that it's no help to the newer sites.
submitted one of the penalized sites to sitematch to see what happens (still pending), and for another, wrote a "can i get reviewed and back in the index?" email to yahoo as suggested over in the yahoo forum. one week later, haven't heard anything.
so to answer your question; used to be 70% google, 22% yahoo. now it's google 90%+ and aol. yahoo is but a trickle.
if anyone has had any similar experiences or advice with the carried over ink penalty, i'm all ears.
We're definitely up overall though, probably by about 40%. Let the SE wars continue...
All new traffic this year has come through Google.
Today, Yahoo only refers about as third as much as Google does.
So, for me Google is first by a huge margin, followed by Yahoo and then MSN.
Depending upon the category that could be true. "Techies" love Google, so if you have a technical site Google will be your primary SE referrer.
Average Joe's like Yahoo and MSN, so for a site that appeals to the person in the street the numbers will look very different.
Then the issue of SERP's further confuses the numbers. Things are more settled now than 4 months ago, but things still shift about, especially in Google.
For my "Average Joe" sites the order is:
#1 Yahoo
#2 MSN
#3 Google
#4 AJ
There is only 7% between Yahoo and Google, the spread across the top 3 is narrow. AJ still makes a worthwhile contribution, but the rest are practically dead!
cheers
viggen
Google has definitely indexed more pages, but I only get hits on obscure search terms from Google. Relevancy is way down, IMHO.
I am ranked much much better at Yahoo then at Google, still i get 80% from Google and 10% from Yahoo, hardly anyone is searching at Yahoo for scientific and research purpose, that is at least my uneducated guess.
Viggen I agree with this point. I believe that Google does attract more "scientific" searchers. I have an informational, technical site and your results bear out what I was seeing, which was about 72% Google. My problem is that the updates have caused me to lose this 72%.
Google 55.23%
Yahoo 19.24%
MSN 15.48%
Across 50 + search terms, travel industry
Google : #2
Yahoo : #3
Aol : #3
Msn : #4 & 5
And...
Msn : 41%
Yahoo : 34%
Google : 16%
Aol : <1%
...this is based on ONE competitive (in my field) search term. I hope this gives you all something solid to chew on : )
Let me just say that four months ago I was #3 in Google before dropping off the front page, and most of my traffic came from there to boot.
[edited by: Josefu at 8:10 am (utc) on April 21, 2004]
