Has Live Search Lost It’s Market Share?Written by Abdulrehman on March 8th, 2009
Despite the fact that Live Search would be one of my last choices while using search engines but yesterday I accidentally happened to check my search position for some keywords that my blog ranks for, on Live Search as well. I saw that my blog ranked on the first page for each one of them which was quite a big surprise for me.
All of those keywords (combined) have been searched on google at least 600,000 times on an average and even if Live Search gets 1/10th searches this amount, which is 60,000, it could still get me at least a few hundred hits a month. The weird thing is that I hardly received 10 hits from Live Search in the last month which brings us to one of the following conclusions:
- Live Search has totally lost it’s market share in the Search Engine industry and no one uses it.
- The people searching on Live Search do not search for the keywords that have huge numbers on other search engines.
- People come to Live Search by accident or misspelling in Internet explorer brings them there and they search for something really stupid.
- I’m missing out some really weird prank being played by MSN.
Whatever the reason be, I’m really confused about the potential traffic from Live Search which was yelled in the SEO industry in the past few years, moreover if you were or you were thinking of making efforts to improve your website for Live Search then you can see the result right here. There’s hardly any hope to make money on the internet by running affiliate campaigns on Live Search, unless there is real and legit proof.
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Despite the fact that Live Search would be one of my last choices while using search engines but yesterday I accidentally happened to check my search position for some keywords that my blog ranks for, on Live Search as well. I saw that my blog ranked on the first page for each one of them which was quite a big surprise for me.
All of those keywords (combined) have been searched on google at least 600,000 times on an average and even if Live Search gets 1/10th searches this amount, which is 60,000, it could still get me at least a few hundred hits a month. The weird thing is that I hardly received 10 hits from Live Search in the last month which brings us to one of the following conclusions:
- Live Search has totally lost it’s market share in the Search Engine industry and no one uses it.
- The people searching on Live Search do not search for the keywords that have huge numbers on other search engines.
- People come to Live Search by accident or misspelling in Internet explorer brings them there and they search for something really stupid.
- I’m missing out some really weird prank being played by MSN.
Whatever the reason be, I’m really confused about the potential traffic from Live Search which was yelled in the SEO industry in the past few years, moreover if you were or you were thinking of making efforts to improve your website for Live Search then you can see the result right here. There’s hardly any hope to make money on the internet by running affiliate campaigns on Live Search, unless there is real and legit proof.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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I have a feeling Live Search gets minimal amounts of traffic. I’ve noticed that I almost get no traffic from it even though my rankings would be similar to what they are on google. I’ll try and find my actual numbers later to post similar comparisons
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We have numerous sites in position one in Live/MSN with absolutely no visitors from Microsoft search. Actually, I can’t ever remember seeing a referral from MSN for any of the many sites we monitor.
Also, it seems that MSN mirrors Yahoo’s search results as the position movements are almost 100% identical.
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i think next to google search, msn live search give enough traffic…
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Live search does the job, but not that we’ll for my part. It’s better if we work it manually. that’s how i see it because it really showed me how worth it working on it.
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So I thought it would be interesting to look at my results from the different search engines. Here’s my numbers for March so far:
google (organic) 13,696 51.31%
yahoo (organic) 7,042 26.38%
msn (organic) 335 1.26%
As you can see from this, MSN is almost inconsequential. It’s roughly 1/50 of Google’s results, whereas Yahoo is 1/2. Show’s how limited MSN’s performance is.
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I don’t think they get enough traffic to be worthy of consideration. After all, Google has the lion’s share of that market wrapped up.
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Live Search is becoming a haven for spammers, it apparently places FAR too much emphasis on on page SEO factors, which means when you’ve worked out what it likes, you can feed in thousands of pages which are virtually guaranteed to rank well.
Even for the small amount of users it has, if you can get enough pages indexed and ranking, you can still get some traffic!
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Live all most lost, not because they poor but others and specially Google is Best, so here pure competition if Live want Search Market Share then it must need to be Best.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who is thinking that msn is useless. I have not payed any attention to them in some time, any traffic that comes from msn is incidental at best. Seems like Google (and maybe yahoo) is where its at.
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