How is bing traffic? I recently checked one of my sites and not many referrals from Bing.

I am getting few hits on Bing, so it's not all that bad.

I have not seen much bing traffic as yet.

For one site I develop and SEO is called National Stockyard Systems I have the following search engine generated traffic split so far this month as follows. Obviously search rankings play a part, but for this site we are ranked roughly equally well in all search engines, give or take.
Google: 80.6%
Google Images: 5.6%
Yahoo: 5%
Bing: 4.1%
Ask: 2.2%
Other Minor Search Engines: 2.5%

I also find sometimes the right link on the right directory or similar will actually generate as much traffic as bing or yahoo, but obviously nowhere near Google! Also if you include Google Images, that over 85% traffic in this case.
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Another site I do seo for is Two in Harmony Christian Dating.
For this site, figures are as follows:
Google - 84.7%
Bing - 10.5%
Yahoo - 3.8%
Ask - 0.7%
Other Minor Search Engines: 0.3%
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Comparing the two above examples, in the second example Bing is a much higher percentage than the first, but traffic isn't taken away from Google - it's just a different split between Bing, Yahoo and Ask. Again around 85% of search engine generated traffic comes from Google.

Discrepancies between case 1 and case 2 results are probably due to variations in search rankings, and a much bigger sample would be required for it to be scientific, however I think it shows which engine is worth ranking for. Generally I think you would have to have a VERY popular niche ranking number 1 in Bing to generate any significant level of traffic, and generally if you where doing enough things right to be number 1 in Bing you would usually at least be page 1-2 in Google for the same keywords.

Just my thoughts
Matt
Marketing Web

The percentage of Bing traffic depends on your niche. If you run a webmaster related website like this forum most of your visitors will probably come from Google. Non-webmaster websites get more traffic from Bing and Yahoo.

It is probably caused by the fact that webmaster related traffic consists of experienced users who knows the difference in the quality of the search results.

I don't think the above is that accurate - No one gets MORE traffic from Bing or Yahoo than Google, no matter what the niche. The two examples I cited are about as far away from a "webmaster" related site as you can get being an agriculture company site and a christian dating site, and both are consistently seeing 85%+ Google traffic vs other search engines. Thinking Google is only for the web savvy was true maybe 10 years ago, it's the default choice for almost everyone now, and has stronger market share in Australia than almost any other Country (about 65-70% in the USA I believe, generally quoted at about 90% here).

I just found some up to date new info on Google's market share in Australia. The amazing thing (to me) is how my own percentages in the posts above were not really that fare off the official figures. I guess my sites must just be pretty typical!


Google accounted for 87.3% of all Australian searches during February, according to the latest
data from Experian Hitwise.
The monthly search data report revealed an increase in Google’s dominance of the Australian
search market. Google Australia accounted for 74.6%, an increase on the previous
month of 2.8%, and Google.com 12.7% of all Australian searches.

Among other search engines search.yahoo.com had 4.5%, and au.search.yahoo.com got 2.63%.
Bing had 4% of searches. Alan Long, Experian Hitwise research director for APAC said:
“These results highlight Google’s continued market dominance that looks set to continue as no
substantial challengers have emerged in the past year."
He added that advertisers needed to monitor search on social networks and other competitors
like Bing. “Businesses need to closely monitor Bing and other competing
sources to chart their impact on Google and its dominance of the search market. "

Over the past 6 months we have found this - even when we have been appearing on page 1 of Yahoo and Bing and page 5 of Google - the organic traffic was still 80% Google and 7% to Bing and 5% Yahoo!

Cheers

Jacqui

Insurance Quotes R Us

I think not that much uses it this days.

When compared to Google, I am only getting less amount of traffic from Bing. But Bing recently added some features like, it adds Facebook, Twitter Sharing To Shopping. This will help us to drive more traffic if we are targeting our promotion in SMM too.

Indeed marketingweb collect & present very authentic & realistic facts & figures which clearly shows that Google is truly a giant of all search engines. Most largest, most speedy & mostly visited.