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Is anyone STILL getting traffic from the Classic Search Engines? Classic Search Engines forums discussing search engines of the past. There has been a lot of search engine consolidation. Overture bought AltaVista. Yahoo bought Inktomi and Overture. Here is where we can discuss the old times in SEO.

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Old December 16th, 2006, 12:14 AM
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Question Is anyone STILL getting traffic from the Classic Search Engines?
It was surprising to receive a visitor from Altavista.
Are people actually Typing Altavista into the browser?

Has anyone gotten traffic from any of the following this year:
Altavista
Lycos
Excite
Webcrawler
Go
AlltheWeb
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Old December 19th, 2006, 11:59 AM
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no way..i feeel like they dnt even exist now a days...


the real things are MSN, YAHOO and THEIR FATHER GOOGLE..



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Old December 19th, 2006, 12:37 PM
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i still get traffic from them, but i dont really give them alot of importance... ussually if you are on top of msn, yahoo and google you are on top of all of them....
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It was surprising to receive a visitor from Altavista.
Are people actually Typing Altavista into the browser?

Has anyone gotten traffic from any of the following this year:
Altavista
Lycos
Excite
Webcrawler
Go
AlltheWeb

I thought these used Yahoo now?
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Old December 24th, 2006, 06:43 AM
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i get traffic and sales from alltheweb
also traffic and sales from dogpile.

i had never had anything before until i started promoting a certain product and i now get a nice amount.
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Old December 31st, 2006, 07:27 PM
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It was surprising to receive a visitor from Altavista.
Are people actually Typing Altavista into the browser?

Has anyone gotten traffic from any of the following this year:
Altavista
Lycos
Excite
Webcrawler
Go
AlltheWeb


Well my search engine is being sent visitors from heaps of other search engines and our stats show that as yet (Three years now) we have yet to get a visitor from Altavista.
Just the other week I thought it was rather neat because I sent our webspider into the Altavista site to try and help them get some visitors by making the site available to be found on my search engine.
To be honest I don't think any visitors have gone off to them from us though.
So I guess it doesn't even qualify as a link referral.. Grin..
The last few days worth of stats I have printed off below for you to see.
The stats are like this:
Google 2910 68.28%
Other 1194 28.02%
Msn 57 1.34%
Yahoo 48 1.13%
Dogpile 27 0.63%
AOL 18 0.42%
Netscape 2 0.05%
Excite 2 0.05%
MetaCrawler 1 0.02%
Webcrawler 1 0.02%

So of the weekly 650,000 visitors that we get, around 4000 are coming into us from other search engines.
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Seems like their traffic (Altavista, Lycos, Excite, Webcrawler, Go, and AlltheWeb) don't exist anymore nowadays.
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Old January 4th, 2007, 10:48 AM
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I thought these used Yahoo now?


So did I. At least Altavista.

See also:
http://www.search-this.com/search-engine-decoder/

But ummm, we can see Altavista is some sort of doorway for Yahoo+dmoz, an affiliate if you will.

We may get traffic from them but there's no need to optimise for them separately.
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If I added up all the traffic for last year from those search engines... it might add up to 0.5% of all traffic.
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Altavista
Lycos
Excite
Webcrawler
Go
AlltheWeb


What... "the premature battered bastards of the Internet"... they all but attracted Down's syndrome and your visitors are the remaining staff that are under orders to NOT USE Google!
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Question posited: "Is anyone STILL getting traffic from the Classic Search Engines?"

Response: Yup! But it is miniscule.
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Old January 13th, 2007, 04:29 PM
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Other than the 3 big ones, I get visitors from AOL, Dogpile and misc small ones.
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Old January 13th, 2007, 09:52 PM
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I get traffic from ALL search engines. The smaller/older ones have a lot less but it's still appreciated. Outside of Google, Yahoo, and MSN, all the other ones combined might equal MSN for me.
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i have traffic from them but this values are 1-2-3 visitors in comparison with google 200-300
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