Vote: Who Brings The Most Traffic to Your Site?

[Rich]

In another thread

http://www.aota.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=10163

a discussion was raised regarding how popular (or not) Yahoo is these days in garnering top traffic.

Most statistics rank search directories and search engines as to how much traffic they receive. However, if you are going to pay these directories and engines for listings, the most important statistic is not how much traffic THEY receive, but rather, how much traffic YOU receive.

So, cast your vote and tell us who brings the most traffic to your site!

Rich

[Mandi]

Google, by a huge margin.

[janderk]

Got curious. So I checked. Search engine hits for the month December:

Google: 7936
Yahoo: 4854
Google Directory: 1565
Altavista: 785
MSN: 534
Ask.com: 532
Google Yahoo: 526
Lycos: 445
Dir Yahoo: 335
AOL Search: 293
AskJeeves: 230
Goto: 0

Jan Derk

[pier]

Overall:

Overture (formerly Goto). Since they have partnered with yahoo, msn etc. the traffic they send me has doubled in two months. So I can recommend them if you want more traffic.

However:
I'm glad that most of my listings are still 1 and 2 cents (old goto-style), but nowadays you'll have to bid at least 5 cents to get listed. In my opinion only worth a try, decide afterwards if it was worth it.

Advertising income is still larger than hosting & overture, but I'm hoping for better times

Pier
[ But don't count the hours I spend & spent on it ]