I kick ass in Australia...

[mvandemar]

Ok, if I had the rankings that I have in Australia Yahoo here in the US, I would be doing great. I mean really great. I mean really, really great.

So, can anyone figure out what it is that is the big difference between the 2?

au.search.yahoo.com
search.yahoo.com

There must be something distinctive that one is doing that the other isn't, something that once identified I could focus on and overcome, I'm sure of it. It's eluding me by that much...

Same thing happening in Yahoo India (in.search.yahoo.com) and Yahoo Canada (ca.search.yahoo.com). Thing is that a) I don't deal in any of those markets, and b) I don't think the things I rank for are popular search terms in those countries anyways.

I'm also ranking great in fr.search.yahoo.com and seriously rocking on it.search.yahoo.com, but not good on de.search.yahoo.com or uk.search.yahoo.com.

So, anyone want to take a stab at why the big difference? Or know of somewhere where an actual study was done? There has to be some cross country seo-ers out there who have a clue why this happens. :)

-Michael

[mjewel]

The location of your server plays a role (geo targeting) as well as the TLD. Do you have backlinks from sites in those countries? If a well ranking site in India is linking to you, then that can affect your SERPS in India, etc.

[tfbpa]

Just as mjewel said, you may want to have a look here http://ekstreme.com/domain-geolocation/

Just type in your url and you can see all sorts of info related to specific country details.

[mvandemar]

Very first thing I checked was backlinks, doesn't show me anything. Second most popular place for me to get links from is the UK, yet my rankings there suck... none at all from Italy or pages with Italian on them, best rankings overall there.

com (69.41 %)
uk (10.23 %)
net (6.52 %)
org (4.11 %)
info (2.91 %)
biz (1.50 %)
us (1.10 %)
ca (1.00 %)
au (0.60 %)
ws (0.40 %)
za (0.30 %)
tv (0.30 %)
pl (0.30 %)
de (0.30 %)
edu (0.20 %)
pk (0.20 %)
gov (0.10 %)
vn (0.10 %)
ro (0.10 %)
name (0.10 %)
il (0.10 %)
hu (0.10 %)


Any other ideas? US hosted btw...

-Michael

[chimaera]

Just as mjewel said, you may want to have a look here http://ekstreme.com/domain-geolocation/

Just type in your url and you can see all sorts of info related to specific country details.
Nice tool, thanks.

[mjewel]

Well, I have the same experience with about 20 different domains - although not as extreme as you imply - especially in Canada. I only target the US market with all my sites, and all but two are hosted in the US. I think each division of Yahoo has a different algorithm, or they use them for testing purposes which results in different SERPs. I have seen some extreme shifts in the Yahoo SERPS recently (both good and bad) - more than any other time in the last 8 years.

[mvandemar]

Well, I have the same experience with about 20 different domains - although not as extreme as you imply - especially in Canada. I only target the US market with all my sites, and all but two are hosted in the US. I think each division of Yahoo has a different algorithm, or they use them for testing purposes which results in different SERPs. I have seen some extreme shifts in the Yahoo SERPS recently (both good and bad) - more than any other time in the last 8 years.

Right, I've seen the shift as well, been bouncing around quite a bit this year. I mean, not like daily big bounces, but at least 5 or 6 huge shifts in the algo. I stay top 100 for the most part (not always though), but there is a huge difference from #1 and #35, ya know? :D

Thing is, some sites seem to rank well across the majority of Yahoo's, while some only do good in a few. I can't help but think that there's some hidden info here that could help, if we could just dig it out. :p

-Michael