My arcade site www.playedonline.com ranks very well on Google for "Free Games" and "Free Online Games" but not very well on Yahoo. Can anyone shed some light on the differences and what I can do to improve my Yahoo rankings?
You don't have to include your site to Yahoo directory. I have a site which had very little traffic from Yahoo, included in Yahoo directory. After 9 months it Yahoo started sending me good traffic. Yahoo seem to act different on how they determine ranking on SERPs. Only thing you can do is optimize and wait.
i think yahoo gets alot front page hits from people for directories and email, but doesn't mean that people use them to search. My wife has a yahoo mail account and has never searched with them before. The last stats i remember reading is Google=60%+ search traffic or something like that. That leaves 40% divided between Yahoo and everyone else....
1. Alexa means nothing. 2. Even if Yahoo does have more traffic, google has more search traffic. I would agree with forgetting about yahoo, optimise everything for google. If yahoo sends you good traffic then thats a bonus, its not worth aiming for.
You should stop giving bad advice such as this. Any webmaster who forgets about Yahoo traffic and focuses on Google only is a failure. Any SEO giving that advice is a shamster. You should always try to get as much traffic from more than one search engine. Should one decide to screw you in the SERPs, at least you still get the traffic from the other SEs. You may also want to do a search here on DP on Yahoo traffic and conversions. From my own experience, Yahoo users tend to click more on Ads and buy items than Google users. Other webmasters have seen similar results and have been focusing on getting more of this traffic Getting listed in Yahoo Directory is good if you are a business. There are some good ways to get targetted traffic when you are listed. You can do well in Yahoo without being listed in it though for general websites.
Well the simple fact is google is, by a huge margin, the biggest traffic provider. If I've got a site doing well in google, I'm not going to do anything to the site that google might not like. I wouldn't say its bad advice, its just an opinion. If you think its worth the gamble of damaging your google traffic for the chance of a small increase in traffic from somewhere else, thats your gamble.
What happens if one day Google decides to drop your SERPs? I am not sure why you think doing any optimisation for Yahoo would affect Google results. I generally optimise a website for Yahoo first and find Google indexes them well in its SERPs. Some minor adjustments may be required later as with all SEO. This has worked well for me so far as I have many pages on the 1st page SERPs for both Google and Yahoo (still working on MSN/LIVE).
I say you increase the keyword density of the target keyword and phrases.. Yahoo seem to love keywords if it is not too competitive. But then, It might affect google ranking mind you.
I cant get hits from yahoo or google hardly to save my life... but on all my sites msn search usually loves me lol so i love them back
Yahoo has been tough for one of my sites which dominates in msn & google for the highest terms with results over 120,000,000. Yahoo hates me I guess.
I am having the same problem with Yahoo. When I get it fixed I will let you know what I did. Good Luck