Is Google loosing traffic?

My stats show traffic increase from other SE

[BobXpl2k3]

Alta Vista used to be a very popular SE, but when they tried
to market pay listings only their diectory became outdated. Consumers went elsewhere.
Recent Google top 10 results in my industry include many big companies with one page rellevant or gateway site to the search querry instead of sites dedicated to the subject.
Today I've noticed a sharp increase in traffic from engines like Ask Jeeeves and Fast (My ranking have not changed).

[bolitto]

Alltheweb.com is all I'm using since about May this year
(since the Google fiasco downgrade).

I haven't missed Google at all....

[Mohamed_E]

Normally I get 85% from Google and partners, 10% from MSN (Ink) and 5% from "others".

Today I got 80% from Google, 15% from MSN and the usual 5% from others.

As far as I can tell, no real change. For better or for worse, Google Rules!

[SlowMove]

Aside from checking log files and stats, is there some way to get the numbers for a good part of the Web?

[ciml]

SlowMove, those numbers tend to be biased in some way or another.

For example, I have quite different traffic breakdowns for domains on our servers that do/don't engage in PPC, that have a US/UK audience, that are big/small, well/little linked, etc.

Across the domains I see, I'd say that Google's as strong as ever.

[europeforvisitors]

I haven't seen any change recently. Google is still my largest referrer by a wide margin. Yahoo does okay, and MSN is usually in the #3 position with maybe 1/8 to 1/10 of the referrals that Google sends me. Alltheweb and Teoma are out of sight. (I probably get one referral from Teoma for every 3,000 that I get from Google.)

[NazaretH]

For us Google is getting even stronger than ever - it used to send about as many visitors as yahoo, but now it sends almost twice as much as yahoo does (not saying that yahoo is also google :). NO rankings change or season reasons AFAIK. Google rules.

[JoeHouse]

Yes I see a change today. Normally Google handles most of my traffic but MSN is giving them a run for their money lately.

[gregh]

i think it just varies from site to site. Some sites just do better on google, some do better on other engines.

Where have you put most of your time optimizing at?

ATW is really starting to pick up speed, so it is likly that you are getting a lot of traffic from there.

Also if you are a little weak on the backlinks, but have good content and good keywording you will tend to fare better on other engines that do not rank like the google algo in using the whole backlink method as heavy.

just depends on a lot of things.

[Helpmebe1]

I see *many* referals coming from MSN, ATW, etc... at one time I was getting most of mine from google, no longer is the case, THANK GOD I might add since google has really screwed one site big time.

[Visit Thailand]

I have seen a minimal increase from msn, and ask jeeves but nothing substantial so far. Personally I am not reading anything into it yet, perhaps just a better algo for those on the increase.

[JonB]

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[hazardtomyself]

I am seeing a significant increase from MSN. MSN used to deliver between 5%-9% of traffic. Last month MSN has recorded between 15%-25% of traffic. This is consistent across 5 completely different sites.

No increase from ATW, Jeeves, etc. Probably my industry.

[dvduval]

For me, Yahoo is providing about 60% as much traffic as google. I think Yahoo definitely has the opportunity to increase that number. I don't forsee any other players getting a big peice of the pie anytimr soon. I'm in the US.

[BobXpl2k3]

Google is allowing (or not able to filter) spam affiliate (Commission)redirect sites with top 10 ranking and with 3 or more sites in sequence. Those sites appear to be unique, yet all links are redirected the same domain.
Example:
[somedomain1...] ¦
[somedomain2...] ¦affiliate redirect¦finaldomain
[somedomain3...] ¦

I think clicking on few sites and getting the same site multiple times would send consumers away to search elsewhere.

[Namaste]

Check your logs.

What I am seeing is that Google traffic is now spread over the many Google's relative gto each country: Google.fr, Google.de, etc.

Overall Google has the same ratio as others for the last 12 months.

[JoeHouse]

Does anybody know where to get free quality targeted traffic other than search engines. There got to be other places people are looking. Please advise. Thanks!