Is it worth bothering with non-google search engines?

**johnch** · 09-30-2009, 05:17 AM

Google is pretty much on top right now, and also a hard one to beat. But personally, just relying on one SE is a bit lazy and risky. You really can't tell what's gonna happen in the future you know. Its still best if you make efforts on trying to get traffic from other SE, no matter how little percentage it may contribute to your traffic. Little is still better than nothing, right? =)

**melissa09** · 10-08-2009, 11:04 PM

Yeah I think it's worth bothering with non-google search engines as well. I for one, I don't just use google when I do research; I also use yahoo, msn and etc., and what I've noticed was that the search results weren't the same, meaning your site can appear on the first pages in google but not with yahoo and others.

**mrandrei** · 10-15-2009, 12:14 AM

I think it's not worth it. Google still generates the best traffic and you should focus your time and energy on that search engine. You can only get minimal traffic from other SEs.

**larryatwt** · 10-21-2009, 12:42 AM

It is no doubt that we should optimize our sites for google first. But we should not just ignore search engines since we will never know when google will have a big change in their algorithm that might drop your serp rankings to nowhere.

**stephen186** · 10-21-2009, 06:19 AM

Sometimes depending upon your niche you may get a less traffic from other search engines but may be some good conversion than what you are getting through google but it does depend upon niche..

**Viral** · 10-21-2009, 07:37 PM

I would only bother with high ranking search engines for traffic.

**ctemplates08** · 10-21-2009, 09:53 PM

I think it is just fair to give attention to other major search engines because somehow they can help you out with your marketing. Yahoo and Bing are not really far behind Google so if you can rank better at the two then it will definitely help you out.

**Juster** · 10-23-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by journey08

I have noticed this too. When I optimized and link build my blogs, my main focus is to rank well in google. Then some of my major keywords that rank high in google have also the same results or rankings in yahoo and msn.

also have that practise. And was and this: google 20 pos, yahoo 1 pos.
I think is realy hard be in top of most popular SE (Google, msn, yahoo, yandex) should choose one from all SE, you must have great money that be in top in all SE.

**jem777** · 11-16-2009, 07:36 AM

It's friendly. It's simple as that. It's the site that makes and shares money for business.
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**KennyGee** · 11-16-2009, 11:06 AM

Well traffic coming from other search engines might not be a lot but at least when combined together in longer term period, they still can make a difference.