What's up with Yahoo Search?!?!

[kloop]

I submitted my blog to Google and Yahoo like a month or so ago, using their Webmaster Options. I'm getting great results from Google, but Yahoo is giving me about 1-5 visitors a day.......What can I do to increase the visitors from Yahoo ???

[chaitanya.seo]

People generally not going to use Yahoo for search more,
And some times which keyword you are targeting for those you are getting traffic through google but yahoo may not show your listing on those particular keywords.
Forget more visitors from yahoo side.

[sydneyaus]

Yahoo can also get you good traffic, but it takes a bit longer to get Yahoo traffic, maybe their indexing process works slower.

[touchAshley]

Forget yahoo. Google is the traffic bringer. Yahoo brings trickles

[mrcrowley]

Thats just the way it is... Google just holds so much more traffic than Yahoo...

[orioncs]

You just need to wait for 6 months or so to get good traffic from Yahoo. Meanwhile enjoy the traffic from Google ;)

[hillord]

You just need to wait for 6 months or so to get good traffic from Yahoo. Meanwhile enjoy the traffic from Google ;)

LOL.. nicely said

[pioneer1]

I agree with you guys, Google is the main traffic genrator for your sites

[ReadyToGo]

It's typical to get only a fraction of your traffic from Yahoo.

[kloop]

People generally not going to use Yahoo for search more,
And some times which keyword you are targeting for those you are getting traffic through google but yahoo may not show your listing on those particular keywords.
Forget more visitors from yahoo side.

Yahoo can also get you good traffic, but it takes a bit longer to get Yahoo traffic, maybe their indexing process works slower.

Forget yahoo. Google is the traffic bringer. Yahoo brings trickles

Thats just the way it is... Google just holds so much more traffic than Yahoo...

You just need to wait for 6 months or so to get good traffic from Yahoo. Meanwhile enjoy the traffic from Google ;)

I agree with you guys, Google is the main traffic genrator for your sites

It's typical to get only a fraction of your traffic from Yahoo.


Thanx for all the input + Rep added:D

[bannedperson]

I no longer optimize for yahoo... considering that 99.9% of my traffic comes from google

[jitendraag]

The reason you are not getting much traffic from you might be two fold:

1. Your blog is not ranked well in yahoo (yet).
2. Even though your blog is ranked nicely, people are not using yahoo all that much ;)

I am on page 1 for my sites for both search engines and I get a very small number of visitors from yahoo.. For me it's google all the way :)

[my_misyel]

I think it really takes time before you appear in Yahoo SERPs.

[Adulu]

Google bring visitor.
yahoo bring robot.
both of big different:p

[snowbird]

Google bring visitor.
yahoo bring robot.
both of big different:p

Yahoo's bot certainly crawl like crazy, but Yahoo sends me 1/10th the traffic Google does.

Optimize for Google, and hope Yahoo comes around...

[uvgi]

i get 1 yahoo visitor for every 300 google visitors to my site :(

[homebizseo]

You get less people from yahoo due to the fact less people are searching on yahoo. The ratio of traffic will probally be the same for both.

[kingofsanda]

It's great that you are getting some good traffic from google, but you should remember
that you probably will not receive as much traffic from yahoo as you are receiving from
google.

Google shows the most relevant results so the majority of people will rely on google.

[kloop]

The reason you are not getting much traffic from you might be two fold:

1. Your blog is not ranked well in yahoo (yet).
2. Even though your blog is ranked nicely, people are not using yahoo all that much

I am on page 1 for my sites for both search engines and I get a very small number of visitors from yahoo.. For me it's google all the way

Wow, thats crazy...I guess yahoo going to me useless like Aol Search did :rolleyes:

I think it really takes time before you appear in Yahoo SERPs.

Yea, but I don't even ccare anymore as long as my google traffic keep increaing :D

Google bring visitor.
yahoo bring robot.
both of big different

LOL

Yahoo's bot certainly crawl like crazy, but Yahoo sends me 1/10th the traffic Google does.

Optimize for Google, and hope Yahoo comes around...

Yep, That seems like the way to good

i get 1 yahoo visitor for every 300 google visitors to my site :(

Yea thats how my traffic is working with Yahoo :(

You get less people from yahoo due to the fact less people are searching on yahoo. The ratio of traffic will probably be the same for both.

It's great that you are getting some good traffic from google, but you should remember
that you probably will not receive as much traffic from yahoo as you are receiving from
google.

Google shows the most relevant results so the majority of people will rely on google.



Thanks for all the input + Rep to all that posted above

[blue_angel]

Yahoo indexing process works slower ..give traffic but delay in general

[kloop]

Yahoo indexing process works slower ..give traffic but delay in general

Yea, because for the last fews days I've been getting alot more traffic from Yahooo...hope it keeps growing:D

[digitalmatch]

Forget yahoo for now, but not complttely. The situation might as well change in the next few years.

[mizaks]

People still use Yahoo for search? :)

Just optimize your site as best as you can (and then do more) for best results.

[makelanguages]

google is going bring a lot more traffic then yahoo.. it ranks you high on searches also

[jellybeanz]

Forget yahoo. Google is the traffic bringer. Yahoo brings trickles

I completely agree.

[guidyy]

30% of my organic traffic comes from yahoo.
If you have a more family, entertainment, lifestyle related site, there are more chance you get traffic for Y! if you rank decently.
Moreover, if you rank good and you have a keyword that can get in the "Today's Top search" in Yahoo home page, you can see your traffic skyroketing.
I have been there a couple of time and got up to 8000/10000 u/v while my avg is 800 LOL!.. Not gonna tell how nice is to look at your adsense account those days :D

[kloop]

I don't know...... maybe my virtual PR has gone us, but I'm now getting at least half the traffic of Google from Yahoo now..... 2:1 ....I hope this keeps going up :)

[hillord]

Yahoo can also get you good traffic, but it takes a bit longer to get Yahoo traffic, maybe their indexing process works slower.

maybe they hired a real person instead of bots to review the newly added sites to yahoo. HAH

[jkrish41]

Hahaha, that is funny :)

You can always try to target in both spots.

[clivechung]

maybe they hired a real person instead of bots to review the newly added sites to yahoo. HAH

haha......I've heard that one before too. 6 months is such a long time compared to google's 2 weeks.

[montuno3282]

My experience is that my Yahoo traffic is much more dependable. For a while the Google/Yahoo split was 50/50. though now I've been in google doldrums and Yahoo is the majority of my traffic 65% of 25K monthly visits.

Also the yahoo traffic is much more focused on particular keywords and my Google traffic is more of "the long tail" (I have 400K pages on my site).

[hillord]

wow that's really something. 400K pages. what niche, can we ask?

[Dariotor]

Google is the search engine king so expect more from them. As others have said above, Yahoo usually takes longer and doesn't bring in as much.

[imi_99]

I think yahoo can't give you much traffic compare to google.

[Lovely]

Yahoo index is very slow sometime compare to that of Google, continue optimizing for yahoo the traffic will come soon or later.

Moreover, It is worth to get traffic from yahoo too, no matter how small it is. Good luck

[BWC]

Yahoo slurp is always pretty busy on my new sites, but Y has added very few of the pages to it's index, let alone ranked them in the SERPs so far.

Perhaps it is because the sites are so new, but at least slurp is spidering the sites.

[Vembl]

Google brings much more traffic to your websites than Yahoo. On the other hand, it is always good to optimize for both (Yahoo and Google) mainly in highly competitive fields as sometimes it is easier to get on Yahoo first page than on Google first page.