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? :)

Visits
Time on Site
google 229,281
00:01:41
yahoo 4,213
00:01:31
aol 1,736
00:00:58
live 1,675
00:01:18
msn 1,512
00:01:07
search 1,114
00:01:03
ask 527
00:01:34
altavista 65
00:02:46
lycos 46
00:00:47
netscape 37
00:00:14

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 ;)