Yahoo and Bing Suck For Traffic...

Posted: 15 years ago 19 replies

Is it just me or does yahoo and bing suck for free search engine traffic? Im #1 in both search engines for a keyword that google says gets over 650K searches per month and I haven't got 1 visitor from either search engine from people typing in this keyword...

I'm still working on Google right and Im climbing every week.

#bing #traffic #yahoo

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In general, Yahoo and Bing (formerly MSN) have delivered less traffic to my sites but a higher percentage of buyers than Google has.
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When everybody only knows Google is best, who would like to check bing or yahoo that much as usual?
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I know they don't get hardly the amount of traffic that google gets but come on... you would think they get "some" visitors.
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I agree with you. I don't think Bing able to bring quality traffic. Goole is still the king of all traffic sources..cheers..
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In my case, people who come from bing and yahoo, convert much better than Google visitors. They come in less numbers but the conversions are better. A lot of oeople using Google are looking for freebies most of the time. Yes they buy, but not nearly as much as Yahoo or Bing users. Such is my experience with those visitors.
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If you are supposed to get 600.000 searches a month from Google, something is wrong.

I agree that Yahoo and Bing has less traffic than google, but still you should se a lot of traffic from such a keyword.

Have you done your keyword research in Exact mode? Are you sure you are on place one other datacenters and not just on your own computer?
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15 years ago

My Yahoo traffic is much happier than Google traffic, percentage wise.

There is a reason why a higher percentage of my Yahoo traffic makes a purchase.

Think about it.

When "somebody" buys a new computer for the home... the technophobic housewife isn't gonna change the homepage are they

... So?... she's gonna keep the homepage that the browser starts with... Therefore -

Anyways...

I just wanted to point out something in what you said:

Im #1 in both search engines for a keyword that google says gets over 650K searches per month

You are using Google keyword estimates for Yahoo and BING traffic???...

Totally different demographic of peoples are using those search engines, most Google users will never even think about using the others...so why should the traffic numbers from Google be even remotely representative for the traffic at another engine?.

I'm not saying the numbers are always totally opposite, or you shouldn't at least get some traffic if Google is giving such a high number.... but using Google estimates as a basis for Yahoo/BING traffic is a no-no for me.

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In one of my niches I am currently #4 in BING for that keyword - I currently get 141 visitors a month from Bing

Better than nothing but thankfully I am not relying on BING as my main traffic source

I agree with the poster above - a lot of people use IE and Bing since it comes packaged with their home PC
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15 years ago

Originally Posted by JayXtreme

No i not using Google to to estimate yahoo and bing traffic, and actually, I haven't even been trying to rank high for yahoo and bing, that just happened as I was working on getting up in Google. Im just surprised that I haven't gotten any traffic from them.

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My experience is the same as others. Bing traffic is lower but converts at a much higher rate than Google. Wish I knew the reason...
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  Those in the know, know this: Google may send you MORE traffic, but Yahoo and Bing send you BETTER traffic.
  
  So, assuming that you actually want to make money with your site, do your best to attract Yahoo traffic.
  
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  I have found that if you optimize for rank in Google. You tend to rank very well in the other search engines as well
  
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I actually love Bing right now. Bing is so much easier to rank in, than google. As the one guy said, dont use Google estimator to see how much traffic Bing or Yahoo will bring you. Maybe Bing and Yahoo only get 100 searches a day for the same thing google get 650,000.

The reason many keywords in Google are searched for alot is due to Googles suggestions, not because people are particularly looking for that exact wording.
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Google receives the highest number of queries followed by Yahoo and then MSN. To get real traffic from Yahoo & MSN you need to be on the 1st o 3rd position.
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its common fact that they send less traffic however i find its conversions sometimes are better,
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i think internet newbs use yahoo and bing more often than google which would explain the higher conversion rate
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I also find the traffic that yahoo and bing send to be disappointing, a few sales come from these search engines but the bulk obviously comes from google.
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Bing was doing well when it took over MSN,
but sadly it now seems to be falling behind
with every passing month. Is Google really
"not" doing any evil?

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