Why Ignore Yahoo!, MSN Live, Or Ask For That Matter?
I’m amazed at how many people get so fixated on seeking high search engine optimization Google rankings that they completely forget about Yahoo!, MSN Live, or Ask.com. Or even one of the thousands of other smaller search engines. I’ve seen healthy traffic come from places like Dogpile or some obscure search engine that I’d never heard of and didn’t exist (and have often wondered how I got listed there in the first place).
Don’t get me wrong, Google will likely be your main source of traffic (if you do your SEO right). But there’s no rational reason to not attempt to get listed and ranked everywhere you can. You can still pick up a good 20% increase in search traffic just by having moderate to high rankings in the next three highest traffic search engines – Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Ask.com.
Search engine marketing and optimization is not an exact science. You can target one search engine and still find yourself listed higher in another. Be vigilant about checking your rankings in all the search engines and if you don’t see your website listed in a certain search engine after awhile, take some time to submit your site to that search engine or find out what it takes to get crawled by its robots. Don’t get so fixated on Google that you forget everything else.
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Good point but for me it didn’t work.
I mean, I have the third place on Yahoo and the first on MSN and I never got any traffic from them, while on the 3rd place on Google I get continous traffic.
Not sure why it is…
@Krystian – Thanks for reading and your comment. This may be a direct relation to the demographics of your targeted audiences and the competitiveness of your keywords…
I completely agree. I have noticed MSN rankings usually come pretty fast and then comes Google (if you are doing it all right). Yahoo for some reason takes a while and once it does, it does not go away fast.
@ Karan Goyal – Thanks for reading, yes people should really not ignore Yahoo!, MSN/Live.com and Ask.com search engines as much as they tend to do…
It would be useful if you could provide some links to the submission pages for these search engines.
Yup, although Google does all the magic, but the traffic from MSN and Yahoo always does add up. Atleast for me. SEO is all about free search traffic, so why ignore any thing. Just something to share, Yahoo, MSN and Ask give much more importance to keyword in the domain then Google (which means Google also gives importance to the keyword in domain).
@ Curt B. – Sure here are the URLs:
MSN/Live.com – http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
Yahoo! http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Ask – http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#9
@Karan Goyal – It is very wise not ignore any of the other search engines! ;o)