Comments on: Bing traffic converts well

By: Eric @ BMW Touch Up Paint

Eric @ BMW Touch Up Paint — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:06:17 +0000

Thanks for the article. I don’t know if it is a matter of Google doing anything wrong or Bing doing anything right. I submit a baser reason for the growing reception of Bing. Often times people look for something new, novel, an alternative to the established even if success suffers from feeling old and outdated. I’m reminded of a
“Simpsons” episode where Lisa tried to explain to the creators of one of their favorite cartoons (“Itchy and Scratchy”) is losing its luster. Lisa points out that there was nothing wrong with the show to begin with; rather, the characters had simply lost the impact they once had with their audience.

By: Notebook Repair Service

Notebook Repair Service — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:46:01 +0000

I agree and have noticed that since its launching bing is consistently performing well and has given Google a healthy competition. But being the new player I hope it will take some time to be a real competitor of Google.

By: William @ DIY Video Marketing

William @ DIY Video Marketing — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:14:00 +0000

I’ve had a similar experience with paid traffic– Adwords traffic tends to browse, while paid Bing traffic tends to convert. Adwords has more traffic available; Bing has fewer people killing time?

It’ll be interesting to see where we’re at after 6 more months of Bing’s TV ads… now that they’ve made them less annoying by half (“Search overload,” ugh).

By: tmongan

tmongan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:38:45 +0000

Bing does provide me with Traffic and has indexed my site way more than Google but as far as amount of Traffic it still doesn’t compare to Google. I concede targeted traffic is important but I feel that Bing and Google do that equally well.

By: vikram

vikram — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:55:26 +0000

even i am getting 40% of my organic traffic from bing only it is good but google still rocks

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:17:43 +0000

I get some traffic from bing myself. The traffic is as targeted as google’s but the quantity is not a whole lot. Google is the most popular SE amongst them all, that’s why it’s superior.

Cheers

By: Paralegal Job Board

Paralegal Job Board — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:57:45 +0000

I’ve run a number of experiments that fit fairly neatly into the mold of what you’ve described above. That is, I’ve placed Adsense on sites, ended up ranking on Bing (MSN/Live at the time, but the users seem to be about the same), and saw that the conversion rates (click-through rates) from Bing were MUCH higher than either Yahoo! or Google. I’ve often wondered about this – the nature of the traffic from Bing is a bit more targeted than that from Google, but ultimately I think the USERS are making the difference. For me, a conversion is simply a click on Adsense, and it is my experience that those coming from MSN -> Live -> Bing are more likely to click on ads. I sense that this may be true of any action, but I haven’t tested that theory yet.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:07:00 +0000

This is actually not surprising if you think about it.

Bing users are likely to be a little less technologically sophisticated than google users. They’re more likely to just search for what they want, find it, and buy it.

By: Aaron @ Internet Business

Aaron @ Internet Business — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:17:12 +0000

Just came across your site and I would like to share my comments and experience here. I believe all search engines aim for one thing – relevancy. So as long as you are optimizing your website with targeted keywords with proper anchor text for the backlinks, you’ll eventually rank well on all major search engines. It’s good to hear that you’ve achieved higher CTR with bing traffic. This must means you are on the right track with seo and on-page optimization with ads.

By: Mikael @ Retire Rich

Mikael @ Retire Rich — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:42:02 +0000

To be honest I am still only looking at Google but I am seeing more and more traffic come from Bing though. When the amount of traffic reaches a significant level I’ll start paying attention to it. Until then I have more than enough to do with Google

Mikael