Last night I was watching Vampire Diaries and during the show one of the characters told another that they “Binged it” and then showed her on her computer using the Bing search engine. So it got me thinking …. with all of the marketing hype, a webmaster can’t help but wonder what the real truth is when it comes to search engines – which is better, Bing or Google or Yahoo? Is Yahoo still even a contender at all?
So as luck would have it, with the recent Jesse James controversy, my Janine Lindemulder site is getting pounded with traffic. I happen to be lucky enough to be in the top three on both Google and Bing for the keyword phrase Janine Lindemulder. I am also in the top 5 for Yahoo for that same keyword phrase. So of the 3 big shots, who is really pumping out the traffic?
Well push all the poo aside that everyone’s marketing and PR people are feeding us and this is the real results. In the last few days Google has sent me the most traffic by far. By the way these are just straight Google web results, not including anything I got from Google images.
This report is in no way meant to be all scientific or anything like that. I just wanted to show you, from a real webmaster to other real webmaster, what kind of results search engines are actually producing.
Although things change all the time, at the time I did this report I was #2 on Google, #3 on Bing and #4 on Yahoo for Janine Lindemulder.
- Google 82,163
- Yahoo 4,562
- Bing 3,270
So as you can see by the chart below, Bing may be growing in popularity and getting more media attention but they still have a long, long ways to go.
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