It is Worth to Focuss on MSN Search Ranking?
January 17, 2008
Stumble it!Did you bother to apply some SEO On MSN? My recommendation is to focuss on Google rankings rather than MSN. The only cause is because I have testing some of my projects with MSN, Yahoo and Google and will tell you… The same keywords ranked in Google, MSN and Yahoo. Google gets 90% more traffic than the others search engines.
I knew that MSN did not get enough traffic to see a big difference in my server logs. But is always good to test and check out how good is a search engine in terms of traffic. Researching about the topic I found some webmasters really dissapointed about how much traffic they get in comparison with Google:
I’m not sure I would worry too much if your site does well in Google. Do not try to rank in MSN/Live at the expense of Google traffic - you will be sorry. My experience has been very little traffic no matter how well you rank in MSN and I am talking about a lot of different domains with completely different subject matter. These are not “my” sites, but many clients that I still have access to their stats over the past several years.
Is it simply people do not use MSN/Live for searching? I certainly wish it wasn’t so, but it seems Google is who you need to concentrate on.Does anyone get even close to comparable traffic from MSN compared to Google (without being penalized from Google)? Most stats I see are at about 500-1000:1 ratio between the two.
I agree with this webmaster, but let me tell you a piece of information. Out of 100 visits from google with the ranked keyword I get 1-3 sales. But when I was doing this research I got one visit from MSN and got one sale. It seems that getting higher ranks on MSN with specific keywords (Niche, affiliate name) you get more sales than Google. Also it seems that MSN users are more “customers/buyers” than Google.
In conclusion, I think it is worth to rank very well in All Big 3 search engines (MSN, Google and Yahoo). But with little knowledge I think MSN ranks websites a lot different than Google. I will try to make some extra research and see how can webmaster apply SEO on MSN. Since 2005 Googlelady.com was not ranked in MSN (top 10) right now MSN is starting to rank well with some keywords that I am not ranked well in Google. I did not make any change, the only change is that Googlelady now is updated daily but nothing with the codes. Let’s see what I can find and make a good article on How to rank well with MSN.
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January 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I have an issue with even tracking live hits, but haven’t investigated because I have always gone after Google hits and just let other search engines come along for the ride. It seems that Google analytics doesn’t even count Live hits. I know this because I have it and another stat program going at the same time.
Live hits are actually overtaking Google on my blog, but all I get in my stats is one term, not a whole phrase and like I said, Google Analytics says I get barely any hits from Live.
I am not going to focus on Live. Just thought this was interesting.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The nice thing is MSN will not kill your rankings for selling link, they don’t want people doing it but they will not hurt your site for it. And I think every search engine is worth the time. The reason for that is blogs get most of there traffic from other blogs not search engines…..the more search engines the better.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I check all my sites,and stats with the popular search engines weekly.I find the majority of my traffic comes from google.So I put most of my interest in google.
steven
January 17th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
MSN gives me a lot of diverse traffic, and the bounce rate is low, so msn still helps a little, even if it isn’t google
January 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I get most of my traffic from google and thats what im focusing most on. But maybe MSN can be worth trying.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
The issue is basically the same as comparing AdWords to AdCenter. Sure, AdCenter traffic does tend to convert better but they can’t compete with AdWords in terms of volume.
Alan Johnson