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Google but no Yahoo! or MSN traffic

by Cosmo Demopoulos
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I started a new Website, Security Certifications - CISSP - GIAC GSEC - Security+ - More, and got Google traffic within 2 days.

Now, slightly over 30 days out, I'm still getting Google traffic, but nothing from Yahoo! or Microsoft search.

I've never seen this before -- anyone else experience this or have an comment?

Yahoo! and MSN have always been easier and faster for me than Google.

Usually promotion methods: three blog links, one ezinearticles article with a link, and some social bookmarking.
#google #msn #traffic #yahoo
  • Profile picture of the author dmderoeck
    My experience is Google spiders/indexes your site quickly (few days), especially if you use Wordpress which I do most of the time. Yahoo has usually come in second with MSN coming in a distant third. It has not been uncommon for me to see MSN not index my site for several weeks.

    I have heard others mention MSN being fairly quick out of the gate, but that has never been the case for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author freudianslip27
    What you are sharing also sounds typical for me, though google can then drop off for a while, as the others come into play. Google tends to give me a surge at first, that falls off (but comes back eventually if you've done decent promotion)

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  • Profile picture of the author Chris W. Sutton
    Ted,

    Go to http://www.Craigslist.com and go into the San Francisco Bay area. Create an advertisement about your site with a link back to your page. Something like, "Learn how to lose weight at http://www.iwanttoloseweight.com" and make sure it is a link. You will have to be a member at Craigslist to post in html but it is free.

    Here is the reason this works...

    San Francisco Bay area of Craigslist has a pagerank of PR8 and it is spidered A LOT. Yahoo and MSN love Craigslist and you will be indexed within 2 or three hours. You should start getting traffic after that.

    Hope that helps!

    Take care!
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    • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
      Originally Posted by Chris W. Sutton View Post

      Ted,

      Go to http://www.Craigslist.com and go into the San Francisco Bay area. Create an advertisement about your site with a link back to your page. Something like, "Learn how to lose weight at http://www.iwanttoloseweight.com" and make sure it is a link. You will have to be a member at Craigslist to post in html but it is free.

      Here is the reason this works...

      San Francisco Bay area of Craigslist has a pagerank of PR8 and it is spidered A LOT. Yahoo and MSN love Craigslist and you will be indexed within 2 or three hours. You should start getting traffic after that.

      Hope that helps!

      Take care!
      I will give that a try.
      I always (in the few, perhaps 6 or 7), Web sites and blogs I've created gotten MSN and Yahoo! first, then Google. Not a complaint of course -- in the long run Google provides the most traffic to all my sites so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheMagicShow
    Google seems to be the easiest engine to rank with and it is the biggest one, yahoo is a little tougher and msn is more of a pain, just be glad google likes your site and ranks you well.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolWebsites
    interesting idea!
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