Thu 11 Dec 2008
List Of Top Ten Search Engines in 2008
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)These are the top 10 search engines driving traffic to this blog since January 2008 until today. Hey! Maybe I had better submit my site to more search engines LOL? 
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Visits
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Time on Site
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| 229,281 |
00:01:41
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| yahoo | 4,213 |
00:01:31
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| aol | 1,736 |
00:00:58
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| live | 1,675 |
00:01:18
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| msn | 1,512 |
00:01:07
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| search | 1,114 |
00:01:03
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| ask | 527 |
00:01:34
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| altavista | 65 |
00:02:46
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| lycos | 46 |
00:00:47
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| netscape | 37 |
00:00:14
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Google is definitely where it’s at, it seems, and what you should be optimising for primarily. Even though we do not optimise for Yahoo or MSN, we have similar positions (although the engines work differently) across the board. It should be pointed out this is a tech blog, and Google is the Techie’s search engine of choice, so it’s not that surprising.
Yahoo, for instance, seems to be very pernickity about page titles, keyword match urls and a link in the Yahoo Directory. Google not so much, these days, it seems to me. TBH I don’t watch MSN or Live that closely at all.
If you want to suply your search engine referral stats, I’ll add them and a juicy link link back from the post
Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)
what’s netscape? I’ve never heard of that
is it one of those search engines that pay people pennies everytime they search?
No surprise there
I’m glad your results reflect what we’re seeing with our clients in Australia. Most of our customers get around 95% of their hits from Google. Direct hits are generally the next highest followed by Yahoo.
Because of this we don’t optimise for anything but Google either. However, it looks to me like if you do well in Google you do well in all the other search engines too.
from the stats that you have given here it’s clearly visible that Google drives 50 times more traffic than yahoo. i think if a site is well established in Google search engine that work great we do not have to worry about other search engines.
I think it’s unwise to ignore every other search engine. I just don’t optimise for the others as much as I do for Google
I did a test to see if I could for instance get more traffic from ASK, and I did. Might publish shortly.
Less than a 10th of your traffic, but similar percentage results of the last year to date:
71% Google
15% Direct
1.87% Yah who?
0.73% live or dead
The fun part is the 9949 search phrases used to find the site. Around 10% finding me by seo/search engine optimisation/search engine optimization type phrases. The joy of long tail and many articles.