Is it worth bothering with non-google search engines?

**Generator** · 03-04-2009, 05:47 PM

I've noticed practically all (90+%) of my search traffic comes from google, and folks have been saying that's how much of the industry they dominate. Is optimizing for the others as well even worth the hassle? For small volume keywords.

**chrishirst** · 03-04-2009, 08:06 PM

All eggs in one basket is never a good idea, what you should be doing is working to increase your referrals from the other engines and from sources other than search.
You never know when it will be your turn for a glitch.

**zeruel** · 03-05-2009, 10:25 PM

Any opportunity can be a help for sure. I don't think it is not worthy to have some traffic from other SEs as well. But I am sure, you will definitely need more time, patience and effort to be able to attain that.

**Jeremy80** · 03-12-2009, 05:36 PM

I agree with chris...you don't want to rely so much on just one traffic source. Google could update their algorithm and decide that randomzoo.com shouldn't get any good rankings for whatever reason.

Google doesn't really get 90% of the search market. You likely just don't have good rankings on Yahoo and MSN. Get similar rankings on MSN & Yahoo and it could easily count for 15 - 20% of your traffic. If you were a store instead of a website, would you ignore 15-20% of your potential customers?

I have heard that MSN & Yahoo traffic often converts better than Google traffic.

So it is definintely worth trying to get rankings on all major search engines. They are all looking for mostly the same thing with some minor differences. Usually when you are dominant on Google you also have good rankings on MSN & Yahoo.

**The Leader** · 03-12-2009, 08:31 PM

I wouldn't bother and have my own contingencies on google instead!

**watergirl** · 03-12-2009, 11:48 PM

I was always under the impression that good rankings with other engines, could actually help your rankings on Google. Maybe it's just by adding traffic.

**chrishirst** · 03-13-2009, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by watergirl

I was always under the impression that good rankings with other engines, could actually help your rankings on Google.

How? ...

**Warner Design** · 04-03-2009, 04:11 PM

You may also want to submit to other search engines because Google may not be king forever. Not to long ago they were just a little nothing and now they have dominated. So it very well could happen again to some other search. If your submitted to others than your already good.

**creativewebs** · 04-09-2009, 05:16 PM

I think when you have optimized your website for google then you also have it already optimized for other engines.

**-thoma-** · 04-11-2009, 10:29 PM

I always make sure I'm ranked well with Msn, Aol, Yahoo, and sometimes even Lycos and other smaller search engines. I've noticed a significant amount of traffic from Msn and Yahoo.

**rypher21** · 04-13-2009, 02:42 AM

not just google....but i still consider other SE's like yahoo and msn...

**jhenna** · 04-15-2009, 06:10 AM

Aside from google, I prefer yahoo and msn also..

**mooladays** · 04-18-2009, 01:51 PM

Google just dominates the search engine industry that it isn't even funny anymore. It is practically the God for all web masters who want traffic and if you are good and generate good backlinks, Google will deliver if you your research.

**timonweller79** · 04-21-2009, 07:48 AM

I get a lot of yahoo traffic as well as google (mostly google though) and i find yahoo still gets great conversions from traffic. I would focus on them as well. I always find people tend to focus on the engine they gets the most traffic (mainly google) but if i think about it, it could change at any time.

I have tried to work out how to get more msn traffic, but theres appears to be the hardest now..

**mrandrei** · 04-22-2009, 01:17 AM

I personally think that everyone should focus on having a good ranking in Google. I'm not very familiar with the way Yahoo search engine algo works. It's full of paid listings.

**ashley27** · 04-27-2009, 03:06 AM

It's good that most of your keywords will rank in google but it's better if you can get traffic also from other search engine.

**nickora** · 04-28-2009, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by creativewebs

I think when you have optimized your website for google then you also have it already optimized for other engines.

I kinda thought this was true too... Is there anything that you need to do extra or different for yahoo then you do for google?

**nayes84** · 04-28-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by nickora

I kinda thought this was true too... Is there anything that you need to do extra or different for yahoo then you do for google?

don't think so. even I believe google has the most strict algorithm for ranking. I think when you rate well in google you mostly rate well also in msn and yahoo. but rating well in msn ad yahoo doesn't neccessarily implys that you will rate well also in google

**journey08** · 04-29-2009, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by nayes84

don't think so. even I believe google has the most strict algorithm for ranking. I think when you rate well in google you mostly rate well also in msn and yahoo. but rating well in msn ad yahoo doesn't neccessarily implys that you will rate well also in google

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.

**payment proof** · 05-04-2009, 05:48 PM

I think it is. Getting quality traffic from a variety of sources is always a good idea. And if your ranking on Google drops, traffic from other search engines may help keep traffic coming to your site.