Why is traffic to my hubs only coming from Google search engine?

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   incomeguruposted 13 years ago

   I noticed that 98% of my hub organic traffic is from google, why not from other search engines, specifically yahoo search engine and bing?

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      Tweetmomposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      i think that is considered very good already. Most of my traffic i still need to promote through my facebook and twitter and daily traffic is still not much. I love your hubs by the way. it is very informative and easy to understand.

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   psycheskinnerposted 13 years ago

   Because Google has approximately 98% market share.

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      LeisureLifeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      lol

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      Susana Sposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      

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         thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         it's important to note that that graph relates more closely to worldwide market share, a lot of foreign nations do not use Google as much.
         
         Google Operates in the high 80% range of search engine traffic in the UK and the US.
         
         I am more concerned by the fact that someone with the name 'income guru' is asking such a basic question!

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            Susana Sposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            It's a graph for the US?
            
            I think the latest figure for Google UK is just under 90%.
            
            Anyhoo, google certainly doesn't get 98% of the search share as someone else stated.
            
            And I don't think I will be following the wisdom of income guru either, lol

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   TinaTangoposted 13 years ago

   I would definitely not complain!  Google is one of the most popular search engines on the internet, I wish I had most of my traffic from google!  Mine just comes mostly from Hubpages

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   PaulGoodman67posted 13 years ago

   You should be pleased, incomeguru, esp if it's google.com!  It's taken me 2 months to get more google.com traffic than hubpages!  But I know what you mean!  I do have a couple of posts that attract a little yahoo and bing search traffic. There's so much written on Google, I hardly know anything about what criteria other search engines use to determine searches.  Maybe someone should write a humb on it?

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      kmackey32posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Hmmmmmm, great idea....lol

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   kmackey32posted 13 years ago

   most of mine is google also as I believe most here at hubpages are also from google...

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   wildernessposted 13 years ago

   Yahoo + Bing is about 1/3 of google dot com for me.  Add in all the other googles and they have an overwhelming advantage.

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      kmackey32posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      LOL

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   Michael Willisposted 13 years ago

   I have seen on Yahoo that it can take a lot longer to get indexed with them. Bing seems somewhat faster than Yahoo. Google still indexes our Hubs faster than the others, just not as high lately it appears.

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   Rosie2010posted 13 years ago

   Mine is mostly Google too, but not 98%  I used to get most of my traffic from Hubpages, but Google.com has surpassed it and that's not counting the other googles.  I have some traffic coming in from Bing and Yahoo but not much.  98% Google.com traffic is great!

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   psycheskinnerposted 13 years ago

   I was being a little glib rather than literal with the 98% remark, but that chart looks off.  Google is usually brushing 90%

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    PaulGoodman67posted 13 years ago

    I suspect that HP make their site Google friendly, as Google are the biggest SE, and HP needs traffic to survive as a business.  But being Google friendly doesn't necessarily mean that your site is picked up by other SEs.

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    prettydarkhorseposted 13 years ago

    think Google represents almost 86 percent
    http://www.karmasnack.com/about/search- … ket-share/

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    Cheeky Girlposted 12 years ago

    Er, has anyone suggested registering your hub links on the other search engines like Bing and Yahoo ? Or Stumbling, and tweeting the stumbles, or bookmarking the tweets?.....
    
    Just asking....

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