Ask Jeeves - traffic?

Does Ask Jeeves generate any traffic? I haven't noticed any on my sites and am wondering if others get good results from this SE?

MCS
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So minor not even worth tracking for us. Total loser.

Naive stances to take, IMO. AJ gets 7% of the search market here in the US, and a higher percent in both Canada and the UK. They also get far more informational searches as a percentage than Google, Yahoo!, MSN. Many folks actually have bought into asking Jeeves specific questions.

One of my pages that has a "what is XXX?" and a full definition pulls up in some of their web answers results and actually gets traffic to my site. I wouldn't dicsount them alltogether.

It's also my opinion that you can be more secure with your rankings over the long term at Yahoo!, MSN & Google ios you can get to #1 at AskJeeves. They are a very difficult engine to optimize for because they are topically and community based. In other words, if the big, important hubs and expert sites in your industry don't link to you, you'll never be ranking high.

The only traffic Ask Jeeves generates on my sites comes from its crawlers. I never get a single hit from their se.

Most find that their Jeeves traffic stinks. I can't believe they have 7% of US traffic. Rand's comments about "how does XXXX" or "what isXXXX" as a way to drive some traffic has also been mentioned by DD as a way to drive traffic. Similarly quoted experts speak to the issues Randfish mentioned. A high ranking in Jeeves is effective for high ranking elsewhere.

Regardless, their traffic s*cks, at least in the US. On top of that, 10 ads on the top of the page turns the site into an advertising forum, not an SE

Dave

Right, Dave.

You need to be doing well in organic results where there are no ads at AJ.

ive had some ask jeeves traffic but it doesnt result in sales, personally i dont rate them to much, and they also ripped bigdoug off on a submission so ive never heard or read anything posotive about them

I installed an amazon store and Ask Jeeves seems to be generating traffic to that. The number of pages indexed goes up every day. Is that normal?

BTW, a search engine is not going to generate sales on it's own. I would consider that there may be some site specific issues to address if sales are not where they should be? Just a tought.

Personally i used Askjeeves some 5 years back. I dont use them now.
After entering the field of SEO recently, I tried to generater traffic from them, but failed as thier bots never indexed me. They are also not accepting any new submissions. I just ignored them as they are also ignoring me.

With the amount of crawler hits, i get from them, they must have a index bigger than googles index. When i put a new domain / site online, it takes only 1 day till they deepcrawl it. So i wonder why their search results are so crappy.

AskJeeves has a pretty signifigant share in the UK so I wouldn't totally write them off if you do business throughout the world. They are my #3 refferer as they bring more traffic than MSN.

Is there anything different you do for AskJeevs optimization or you don't optimize for them at all? Or it is maybe that you just have UK specific keywords? I get nice traffic from big 3 SEs but just a hit or two a month from AskJeews.

Maybe in Great Britain Ask should be paid attention to, but in the U.S. Ask is almost meaningless. I like Ask and the concept, but in the U.S. it is basically a failure.

I may be called naive, but I DO NOT and WILL NOT waste my time optimizing specifically for Ask. This because traffic from Ask for me and for basically everybody else is almost non-existent and will likely remain so. You optimize for Ask... fine... but for me... don't Ask.

SEO_AM - Get to be #1 in Teoma, and I guarantee you'll be happy. Not neccessarily because of referrals, but because it means your local link popularity is ultra-strong, and that means good things long-term with the other majors, as they are all switching to a more local-based algo.