My site's been running for around 9 months now and Google eats up my site and asks for seconds, I get 98% of my traffic from Google and the rest are direct links and some backlinks. I use to get a couple hits form Yahoo but then the word Yahoo dissapeared altogether from my statistics. Could someone shed some light on why Yahoo doesn't like my website? [COLOR="Blue"]http://www.evilpsp.com[/COLOR] <-My website I'm trying to get popular with Yahoo now
Well, first, I think Yahoo is not up-front about its search numbers. They claim a 25% share and it seems unlikely to me, based on what just about everyone has been saying, that they actually achieve it. Second, they might take longer to react, or their algorithm might value different things. Or there's something about your site Yahoo doesn't like. I'm not sure what exactly it would pick up on as natural keywords at least in your home page.
My site is a year and a half old and gets 8,000-10,000 visitors from Google every day, and never more than 100 from Yahoo.. a few weeks ago Yahoo did an update and i saw a small increase of Yahoo traffic of about 2% .. Face it.. nobody uses Yahoo search.. Google won..
I was just curious because my sites been up and running for 9 months now and I'm only pushing roughly 700 hits perday. It would be nice to get some different traffic I guess, Google users are smart ad wise people
It is pretty simple. you have been friend to google and not to yahoo. so plan accordingly how to get your sites optimized in yahoo. May be yahoo algorithim is different.
This is something weird for everyone i guess, but not many can give specific explanation to it. I got some sites that perform very well with Google only, no track of other search engines such as MSN or Yahoo etc.. while, other sites which eat traffic from other search engines, especially MSN, but no track from Google (or some months just few). Now that you made me think... we all have left kinda behind hands optimizing our sites for other search engines and have concentrated more on optimizing our sites for Google..
the same happened to me before my site got listed in yahoo directory, since then, i started getting more traffics from yahoo. keywords ranking in the first page of yahoo are important to getting yahoo's traffics
Lol I get the same thing one of my sites ranks between 3-5 on msn 7 - 12 on google and not even in the top 200 on yahoo strange
that is funny what is happening it shouldn't happen. usually google sucks it up slower. i could be because you have a very good well esablished link somewhere that yahoo doesn't know about.
I added my url to both yahoo and google just now. I know it's already on Google since it's a google blog. I look forward to seeing how the search engine submission works out for me. I have a little tool on my site that tells me where everyone who visits it comes from. So far just from a forum site I frequent and just from my own editing of the blog (myself)
Google owns a much bigger chunk of the search market... which is why you should see more referrals from them.
For years I thought that there is really only one way for SEs to find the most relevant pages, therefore, they must be using similar algorithms. Recently, I have realized that because of the vast size of the web today, there are more than 100 or even 1,000 pages relevant to any certain query, therefore, the SEs can have different algos and still deliver relevant results. A recent study with Penn State researchers bears this out, just search for "dogpile overlap study". The study shows that each SE has unique results for the top ten. So, SEO for Google for it's volume *OR* SEO for Yahoo cuz it's smaller and less tapped. it's you call. Bompa
great discussion, I was looking to post something similar. One of my sites gets 3000 visits per month from google, 22 from yahoo..... I dont get it either. I would like to know how one optimises for yahoo? What is specifically different?
On those pages on my site that draw significant yahoo traffic (30% of total) I have more identical keywords than on other pages. I think optimizing for yahoo means being more aggressive in keyword dropping. The old worrying about keyword density probably still works in yahoo, while it doesn't work in google anymore.
Actually, with me, its neck and neck now on one site. Although it must be said that Yahoo has about 20% more pages indexed. When both have the site fully indexes, its Google that provides more traffic, but about 20% more. I also feel, by optimizing for Google, you are also optimizing for Yahoo.
My site is less than 2 months old. I type in the name of my site in google and it's the first listing. I type it into Yahoo and nothing at all shows up on the first page (haven't checked subsequent pages). Yahoo is crazy. Even MSN is more on point. (Wow, Microsoft does something right?)