Comments on: MSN rank higher than Google?

By: Niche Switch

Niche Switch — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:54:05 +0000

MSN is way easier to rank on, that’s it, at least in the fields where my websites are targetted.

One thing is, for sure not a major factor, but consider that it’s mostly webmasters that use Alexa toolbar. Same people who often check backlinks to their sites. You can’t do that on Google, as that displays only insignificant portion of backlinks. So unless you have some automatic tool, you head to MSN search.

But again, that’s only a small contribution to the discussion, the above mentioned theories for sure contribute way more to the MSN traffic than this…

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:23:45 +0000

@Michael,

Microsoft has it’s own rank at Alexa…
according Alexa is the no. 1 website Yahoo…

…and live.com has its own ranking, too.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:45:17 +0000

I wonder if this is including visits to MSN.com and Microsoft.com as well.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:32:36 +0000

MSN has so much traffic, because all the newbies use it. Don’t forget that IE redirects you to MSN when you have an unreachable site.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:46:18 +0000

Just read this article:
Using Freshness to Optimize for MSN

According this article “fresh” websites will getting higher listings on MSN.
I did come checks for this “fresh” weblog, and it’s true: the search for “Custom error pages” gives a result within the top20 on MSN and nothing (not within the top100) on Google
Ok, then I hope that other users do the same search on MSN…

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:38:45 +0000

Hello Jason,

That’s interesting; I know also websites getting more referrals from MSN than from Google. Mostly websites with non-english content in a market segment where it’s difficult to get high rankings in the SERP’s of Google.
I think this depends also on different website category and countries / languages. In my case I have top rankings for keyword phrases like “php upload” in Google and on MSN it’s difficult to find them…

About the blogotition:
First join the Webdigity forum and post at this thread that you want to join our race. It’s up to all (4) webmasters to accept a new contestants.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:22:35 +0000

One site that I have built for a client consistently has over 50% of traffic from MSN, and approximately 5% from Google, 25% from Yahoo. I’ve checked the referring URLs and my site is mostly relevant to all the MSN queries.

And how do I get in this blogotition?