Yahoo and MSN SERPS are absolute Trash – All Time Low

Interesting since most of our traffic comes from Yahoo and we have some pretty solid positions for some good keywords. MSN’s traffic is very poor, they just don’t have that many people searching on there it seems. Can’t wait for the day we have top Google positions, it sounds like a dream. We are climbing out of the sandbox however, so maybe not that far off.

I used to have huge MSN traffic but it has dried up to a trickle compared to Google. Yahoo is floundering somewhere in between.

MSN has so much spamdexing that decent sites have no chance.

New sites tend to make a short debut and then they get drowned in spam.

It is part of why I am so opposed to blackhat methods.

We rank OK across most SE’s on the GoonersGuide.com site – not great – but good for our targeted terms.

Here is a dump of my SE results so far for August (11 days)
Taken from my AddFreeStats counter.

Google

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2484 69.81%
Yahoo

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456 12.82%
Other

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354 9.95%
Msn

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201 5.65%
AddFreeStats — 33 0.93%
Altavista

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26 0.73%
Netscape

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3 0.08%
AOL

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1 0.03%

It’s Google who is king for me at nearly 70% of clicks – a bit of Yahoo – and I must really find out what goes into the “other” bucket.
:satisfied

MSN comes in 4th with just over 5% … and I laugh at my presence on AOL (1 click).
:hehe:

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As for the labrats – they’re almost exclusively Google traffic – but they are still tiny (less than 50 SE hits a day) so can’t be used for much info.

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Hope it helps ?

MSN has been excellent for me lately, I found some kind of trick or something that gets MSN back to my site every other day and the same for yahoo and google except they come back every other week. The cool part about it is when I build the page a certain way, I imediatly go to straight up to the #1 ranking on all search engines or at least on the first page above even some of the biggest sites on the net, that’s why I love MSN so much.

I haven’t tried going for the big keywords yet like “casino reviews” probably since I don’t believe in myself getting that high, but I’ll have to at least try soon. The point is that when I make a page, MSN picks it up and I go straight up to #1 in a few days, but google and yahoo just take a little longer to go up to #1.

It’s very interesting, I’ve actually been seeing really good changes with all the search engines and have been happy about it all, even google. Everyone says it takes months for the search engines to come back to your site and index it, but they have been coming back to my site every week and I’m #1 on the SE for a new keyword each week also, I am also not a spammy or blackhat webmaster either and I have been very successful as far as rankings go, just need some money though!:terms:

Good comments 52..

I notice that MSN is pretty easy to rank highly in. Yahoo a bit more difficult. Google – seems to mainly like spammy domains.

*Edit* – Each SE spiders my sites daily.