People must really avoid MSN like a plague when it comes to searching. Either that or Overture was a giant scam.

I ranked between 1st and 2nd for 5 keywords (2 hard, 3 soft) that have gotten me zero traffic for the last month. These are the very same keywords that somehow managed to get me 30-100+ impressions through overture which cost me a fortune.

Of course Yahoo gets a lot more search traffic than MSN but am I to believe that nobody in California is searching for those keywords on MSN? Amazing if true and just my luck.

Seems that I can get anywhere from 4 to 15 hits a day. And according to TheCounter all of those are "direct request." I've had one MSN search conducted by a friend just to see if it would register on my counter account. It did but I’m not entirely sure it isn't broken still.

So what gives? If it is TheCounter's error then which service/software is reliable for tracking hits? Where in the hell is my daily traffic coming from?