Ask.com market share

[cct]

Has everyone heard the CEO of Ask.com saying he thought they could grab 8-10% of the SE market?

I always look at what SE people are using in coffee shops, libraries, etc. and have noticed more people using Ask. Is it still powered by Teoma?

[ihelpyou]

More using ask?

I've not noticed any more referrals from them than the past years. Are you getting more referrals?

The CEO is an optimistic chap. Kudos to him for that, but if he thinks to get that much share, he's got a LONG ways to go. LOL

[WebSavvy]

I've noticed a few more referrals from Ask lately, and also AOL for some reason. They're actually sending more than MSN is right now. weird eh?

[cct]

I agree that he is optimistic. The article was on Reuters. He was speaking in New York to Goldman Sachs.
http://crystalcoasttech.com/blog/2006/09/askcom-trying-to-increase-market-share/
Post on our Blog if you want to read it.

We are not getting any Ask traffic spike, but maybe that is on the horizon. Are there any secrets to getting ranked? Right now, we are just "rank" on Ask. (get it...our "rankings" are just..."rank"...er...um...nevermind. It was funnier a minute ago. :)

In other news...Yahoo stock dropped when the CFO states that 3Q ad revenue will be low. D'oh! I actually got a call from Yahoo Publisher yesterday asking for feedback on how we liked YPN, etc. I thought that was nice.

[Connie]

I think the TV advertising that ask is doing will have some impact in the US.

[cct]

Actually, he really did not say earthshattering. Obviously, when you are speaking to investors, you want to sound positive as opposed to "gloom and doom".

[jfrovich]

I get more traffic from ask then yahoo or google, but im still fixing issues with my site..

[cct]

hi jfrovich,

what did you do on your site to get good rankings with Ask? anything special?

[jfrovich]

Originally posted by cct
hi jfrovich,

what did you do on your site to get good rankings with Ask? anything special?

I followed the advice in this forum
did what was suggested when i ask for a site review.
here are a few things

did a 301 for my non www to www
forwarded my index.html to www.site.com
to avoid dup content.

Cleanup up my content, remove my spammy text and am still working on it.
I also themed my site better with the use of folders.
When i build the site i put all 120 page in the root folder
now i have folders for all my main content headings.
click my www to see what i did..

[g1smd]

I look at the SERPs in Ask (and Yahoo for that matter) and look back in time to SERPs that represent what was on various sites many months ago.

Their speed of reindexing is abysmal.

I have no idea about MSN, I just never go there.

[cct]

I have heard that complaint from others as well. If they are planning on taking over 6-8% of the market, they really should fix that, huh...

[IncrediBILL]

Speed of reindexing?

What reindexing?

I have about 90K dynamic pages that change constantly and Ask indexed about 30 today when more than 300 actually changed.

Google and Yahoo are keeping up with MSN at a lame 3rd and Ask would have to index for the rest of the year at that pace and the pages they pulled today will probably be obsolete tomorrow.

I get barely a trickle from them yet I'm #1 on a hot keyword (always have been) and have been an Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site since the beginning but I haven't written them off just yet.

[nuthin]

Seems they must be focusing there strategy solely on the US.
In Australia the ask.com brand that there looking to build up would mean nothing to people.

Ask's serp's are SEO friendly generally.
eg: if you have SEO on your site and are relatively old in terms of age of site etc, then it's likely you can rank.. as there algorithm isn't really that strong and can be circumnavigated easily to one's own advatange.

I agree with you g1smd there crawling and updating of serp's are embarrassing to a search engine trying there hardest to pull more of the market.

I have a love and hate relationship both with nineMSN and Yahoo! as they both update sites and serp's very much on a random basis and really is a hit or miss.

nineMSN.com.au is marketed very well in Australia due to there relationship with the television network - Channel 9, so our customers pull quite a few good referrals from them compared to say Yahoo!

[grungee]

The other reason ninemsn does well in australia is its the first page the comes up when you install windows here. Thank god for firefox.