Opinion: Is Yahoo! worth spending time on?

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by ChrisWallaceTSG, Mar 22, 2010.

  1. #1
    With google dominating the search market, is Yahoo worth the time and energy?
     
    ChrisWallaceTSG, Mar 22, 2010 IP
  2. Techmafia

    Techmafia Well-Known Member

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    yes dear yes

    every bit of traaffic u get from search engines entirely is important
     
    Techmafia, Mar 22, 2010 IP
  3. ashwinsatyanarayana

    ashwinsatyanarayana Well-Known Member

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    Yes! What we ultimately want is traffic - even if Bing & Yahoo are smaller contributors
     
    ashwinsatyanarayana, Mar 23, 2010 IP
  4. rajendradhakal

    rajendradhakal Peon

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    #4
    Definitely
    it's worth is getting more but leader is google. we don't forget also leader
     
    rajendradhakal, Mar 23, 2010 IP
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    boomer_mitra Active Member

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    I have a different opinion. If more that 70%-80% traffic comes from google, why not one utilize that? Yahoo is not so usable by the mass
     
    boomer_mitra, Mar 23, 2010 IP
  6. Elite SEO Marketing

    Elite SEO Marketing Member

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    Yahoo is a great search engine with millions of users, one would be foolish if to avoid targeting placement or spending money on their PPC program.
     
    Elite SEO Marketing, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  7. AJP

    AJP Peon

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    Technology evolves.

    Once upon a time, Yahoo was the king of the search engines. Today, Google is the King

    However, I believe that you should not only rely Google as your only source of traffic.

    Don't put all your eggs in one basket..
     
    AJP, Mar 24, 2010 IP
  8. ChrisWallaceTSG

    ChrisWallaceTSG Peon

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    Thanks everybody. I appreciate your feedback. I guess what I was saying is, if you only have so many hours in each day to dedicate to SEO/SEM, isn't your time better spent focusing on improving your google rankings? Instead of spreading yourself too thin and having moderate results on a wide variety of search engines? To me, until I've ranked on the first page of google results for a variety of search terms, I'm not dedicating any time to yahoo. The potential reward just isn't worth it yet. Maybe once I've got google relatively taken care of, I'll move on to the lesser search engines.
     
    ChrisWallaceTSG, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  9. ChrisWallaceTSG

    ChrisWallaceTSG Peon

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    Also, are you guys talking about PPC or SEO? Definitely PPC/Adwords are worth it on other search engines (why not?) but I was more talking about the natural rankings using whitehat techniques.
     
    ChrisWallaceTSG, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  10. extr3m3

    extr3m3 Peon

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    Every search engine matters even if it`s bing, yahoo etc. You can rank in yahoo easier than in google with the same keywords because it`s a smaller company I think. In my case some keywords are ranking 1 in yahoo and on page 20 on google..
     
    extr3m3, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  11. Miguel82

    Miguel82 Active Member

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    It most certainly is!! It will never give you the same amount as traffic as what Google does but it will still add something to your traffic stream - even if it is only 20 visits per day!!

    Yahoo is great for driving ecommerce customers, Google gets a lot of browsers!
     
    Miguel82, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  12. reapr

    reapr Peon

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    Yes it is. I have a few sites that the bulk of traffic is Yahoo and Google serves up a few visitors once in a while and yes they convert
     
    reapr, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  13. bermuda

    bermuda Peon

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    Look Yahoo might be behind Google in terms of traffic rankings and web searches data but it is still one of the most powerful portals functioning over the net. Regarding those highly competitive niches searched for thousands of times a month, a top Yahoo ranking site could be worth thousands of dollars.
     
    bermuda, Mar 28, 2010 IP
  14. stellak12

    stellak12 Greenhorn

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    I think yes, Yahoo is very famous, not more than Google, but many people use it. So you have the possibility to get many visitiors from Yahoo search engine too.
     
    stellak12, Mar 28, 2010 IP
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    suwunk Active Member

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    Yes, but not as good as Google
     
    suwunk, Mar 28, 2010 IP
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    +xenon+ Peon

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    Definitely. Why? You shouldn't put your eggs all in one basket. Also, you can't ignore large sections of the market. Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Bing are major players and by ignoring them a competitor will snatch the people who prefer those search engines up. It's not like it's a small search engine (which there are loads of, by the way). That's if we're talking about PPC.

    If we're talking about organic/natural searches, then the answer is yes again. However, the search engines have some different techniques in how they rank each website so you should look into how you are SEO'ing the page.
     
    +xenon+, Mar 28, 2010 IP
  17. victoryreds

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    if you optimize well for google then you'll benefit with yahoo also. as far as spending time for yahoo, i think its a waste of time.
     
    victoryreds, Mar 28, 2010 IP
  18. adminirator

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    Get your website on every directory you possibly can. More links equals a higher Alexis rating, which means your visitors will double, maybe even triple if you can get your website ranked in the top 100. Post your link everywhere!
     
    adminirator, Mar 29, 2010 IP
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    Sure. The more traffic, the more money...
     
    yurykas, Mar 29, 2010 IP
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    etc Well-Known Member

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    yahoo and msn/bing. these should where you have to start actually. they're the SE that's harder to optimize than google.
     
    etc, Mar 29, 2010 IP