Is it the end of yahoo days?

[theRealAirness]

I have the same keyword on yahoo and and msn. The keyword are both the same rank or position. It seems like that I get more traffic from MSN. Is yahoo losing the battle on search engine? Or, is it just me?

[losloslos]

Wow that's pretty surprising. Is there a chance that one of the words is on broad match and the other on exact. Or some other similiar word that you have running is stealing the impressions.

[theRealAirness]

I'm pretty sure nothing is stealing the impressions. That keyword is kinda unique to the website. And, I don't exactly focus on that keywork.

[neckbone]

((" It seems like that I get more traffic from MSN. Is yahoo losing the battle on search engine? Or, is it just me "))

Maybe it's the keyword. I wouldn't worry about it though. If you're getting traffic, that's the main thing.

[jjspirko]

My feeling is that Yahoo still gets a LOT MORE search traffic and I am a big MSN proponent so it is not bias talking.

However, I don't feel all traffic is devided evenly. For instance I have a HUGE key phrase ranked number one on MSN and I have it ranked well on Google as well. In that niche MSN does not even get close to the traffic it should be providing me based on its' marketshare in relation to the google traffic.

Using the MSN Traffic tools inside MSN adCenter pretty much shows that indeed in that one niche MSN just does not have much traffic. So when you look at traffic from one particular key word or phrase you can't necessarly expect to see the market share for each of the big three clearly reflected.

However, when we look at all organic traffic for all the key words combined the numbers are pretty close to what the ratings indicate they should be,

Jack Spirko