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RoySpencer
03-09-2003, 16:52/04:52PM
Ask Jeeves is the only SE that I paid to get into...
and here's my search engine traffic from last month.
(Note the 1 visit from an Ask Jeeves search)

- Google-------1074
- Yahoo---------553
- AOL------------189
- DMOZ-----------90
- unk Others-----73
- Netscape-------19
- MSN---------------9
- Mamma-----------2
- InfoSpace--------2
- Excite-------------1
- Hotbot------------1
- Ask Jeeves-------1
Bernard
03-09-2003, 18:11/06:11PM
We do not see much traffic from Ask Jeeves, and I'm pretty sure (although I have not analyzed every referral) that 99% of the traffic we do get is from our AdWords campaigns.
ihelpyou
03-09-2003, 18:11/06:11PM
LOL. So why Ask?
captainccs
03-09-2003, 19:44/07:44PM
Ask Jeeves if he has a non-performance money back guarantee. :lol:

It should not come as a surprise that a small number of search engines produce the majority of the visits. This matches well with the Pareto Principle, the 80:20 rule.

http://www.paretolaw.co.uk/principle.html

All but the top search engines can be safely ignored.
RoySpencer
03-09-2003, 20:30/08:30PM
interesting site...I had never heard of the principle but am certainly aware of it's validity.
captainccs
03-09-2003, 20:37/08:37PM
More about Pareto:

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/pareto.htm

Interesting to say the least!
MakeMeTop
03-09-2003, 21:32/09:32PM
Ask Jeeves is not the only SE that I paid to get into...
and here's my search engine traffic for one site from last month.

Google/Yahoo 17,581
MSN 12,496
Ask 8,742
ATW/Freeserve 5,483
AV 1,936
Others 3,817

Note the 8,742 from Ask!

What does this prove? Nothing! :D

Apart from the fact that this site ranked high for fairly popular B2C searches on Google, MSN, Ask and AV!

In fairness, AJ is pretty popular in the UK - but at least 3K of those AJ hits came from the US.

90 hits from DMOZ?

Wow, that is more hits from DMOZ than I have had over 200 sites in the last year!

However, looking at the first lot of figures, the indication of a low number of hits from sites like MSN would indicate that lack of optimisation is more likely to be the reason for low figures from other search engines rather than lack of use.