Google VS Yahoo VS Bing. Video RESULTS:
I was looking through my Google Analytics for this blog yesterday and was curious how much traffic I was getting from SEO. I’m not a huge SEO guy, but I wanted to use this data to see how much of it came from Google VS Yahoo VS Bing.
I was surprised to find out it was more traffic than I had thought… especially from Google.
Obviously I knew Google got more traffic than Yahoo and Bing, but exactly how much more?
Luckily, I have a very similar ranking in Google, Yahoo and Bing. As you’ll see in the video, I rank number 3 for the word “Trey Smith” in each.
Watch the video to see the full results, but it looks like Yahoo and Bing won’t be catching up with Google for a while!
(SEO Update: Also writing this post specifically so it will read well to search engines, and am going to try and rank high for “Google VS Yahoo VS Bing” in Google, Yahoo and Bing).
Let me know if you have any SEO results for your website… would be curious if they’re the same when comparing Google to Yahoo and Bing.
Trey Smith does internet marketing and consulting. He also likes to screw off as much as possible and his favorite color is pinky.
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Hey Trey,
n°3 on Google with your name is very simple but google vs yahoo VS bing is a little bit hard : your wordpress blog have special plugin?
Trey,
Just did a check on one of my sites (http://www.E-BookMarketingSecrets.com) and my traffic breakdown is:
67% – Google
2.6% – Yahoo
1.5% – Bing
Google sends far more people and they spend more time on the site than those referred by Yahoo and Bing. But, Yahoo and Bing visitors have significantly lower bounce rates.
Another interesting difference is in the percentage of visitors who are new to the site. Almost half the Yahoo visitors have been to the site before. All of the Bing visitors are new and a little over 90% of the Google referrals are new.
Google provides the most bang for my SEO buck – high volume, new visitors, and acceptable bounce rates.
Now it’s time to dig into my conversion funnels stats.
Great article,
Andrew
Just started my site around the first of August although I have owned the name longer. I have been putting a lot of content on the site and have minimal organic results so far. However the results I have are interesting. I am getting almost twice as many hits from Yahoo as from Google. Bing barely shows up with maybe a fifth of total organic traffic.
Dear Smith
I am a starter in Web Marketing Field and looking to pitch a software called
Optimaint through the use of SEO’s .
Could you guide me when you are free.
Gaurav
I wonder if people really search on Yahoo anymore? I think Google is taking over the world LOL
Hey Trey, I also get much more organic traffic from Google than Yahoo and Bing.
on my site
google is 6,315
yahoo 768
bing 638
but then i have again google.com (referral) 353 (and i dont know what this is all about)
great blog thanks Trey
Thx, always learning something.
Thanks Matt..
Check out how I rank for “Best music iphone game” (my game is kolo’s journey)
# 6 Google Ranking as of 4/21/2011 Google VS Yahoo VS Bing. Not too shabby!
Just keep in mind that its not that google has 20x more traffic. Its just that your target market (internet marketing people) use google more then bing/yahoo. Every niche will vary.
It’s excellent site, I was looking for something like this
Trey
How did you get said 200 links to this post? Im guessing you didnt do a bunch of manual stuff, you seem a little to smart and automated for that.
Would be interested to hear which tools/people/methods you used to get those 200 backlinks…
Jesse
I have an employee in Singapore (whose been with me for five years). She does that stuff
Quick update… This post is now number 9 out of over 14,000,000 results on Google for the term “Google VS Yahoo VS MSN”!
Pretty cool as you never know how these “live tests” will go: http://i.imgur.com/5EpH8.jpg
Not showing up yet on Yahoo and MSN. I’ve gotten about 200 links to the post so far.
Hey Trey, don’t you advise us to SEO our blogs/webpages for better Google QS? Be it the Display network or Search? To what extent should we SEO and how? thanks…
ps: any hot pointers for newbies in the Content/Display network? Or is it better to dabble in PPV?
Doing light SEO is good for google search, but doesnt matter as much for display network (which I like better).
Getting SEO rankings is as simple as getting a bunch of links to your site after adding an “SEO plugin” in wordpress.
Already on page 2 of Google for “google vs yahoo VS bing” out of – 17,000,000 pages!
On my main site the traffic breakdown for # of visits in last 30 days by search engine is:
Google 13,445
Yahoo 1,081
Bing 945
Google isn’t dominating quite as much as it is for your blog, but it is still about 87% of organic search engine traffic!
- Julias