Hi, Considering there is a yahoo section, i would assume people optimise for Yahoo. How effective do you find Yahoo for generating traffic compared to the likes of Google? When using Wordtracker the percentage from Yahoo appears to be considerably lower. Thanks Z
One of my websites has the current stats - Visitors from SEs It is possible to do well in all 3 SEs. One day, when google decides to change it's algorithm and your site pages are nowhere in the first few pages, at least your flow of traffic from the other SEs will remain (all eggs in one basket scenario)
I optimized for Google but I generally show up in pretty much the same positions in the SERPS for Yahoo and Google for my targeted keywords, so I would say the algorythms must be very simalar. That said, I get about 80% Google, 15% Yahoo, 5% AOL, 0% MSN
Claude, Valid point you got there. That is a worry of what happens if Google changes dramatically one day. Out of curiosity the traffic you posted, is that per day, per week or per month? Cheers Z
Those stats are from a site I am only getting back to now. The stats I posted earlier were for this month. Doesn't look much I know, until you see the traffic the website received in November down below: As you can see in comparison, between November and January, the Google traffic dropped from 30K to 4K. If I had relied on Google alone for that site, that site wouldn't be worth much. However, the Yahoo traffic is consistent and MSN/Live traffic has increased. That site on projection should still bring in about $500-$600 for this month. People think that just becuase more people use Google, that the other SE traffic are useless. My earnings for this site say otherwise.
Thats more than mine at the moment. But im sure if i make a good conscious effort and apply all ive learnt, the results will improve. How do you optimise yahoo/msn ? Thanks Z
Fot Yahoo, you may want to read the link/thread @ How to Optimize for Yahoo! I am still experimenting with MSN/Live but appear to have found a CMS that MSN/Live just appears to love and highly rank in SERPs. I am studying for some exams so will not have time for another 2 weeks to analyze what is so unique about the CMS output that Live/MSN likes.
my traffic is like this 64% Google / Image Search 15% Direct .... 0.1% Yahoo I am probly going to ban Yahoo Sipders very soon, they eat up so much bandwich but dont give me any thing.. while google eats 1/1000 of what yahoo does and i get over 1000% more traffic.. I am just wondering how Yahoo ranks their sites..
Dreads, I never thought of the bandwidth issue from search engines. Now i will. Thanks everyone else for ALL the replies. Z
Yahoo is about 25% of my traffic but I do not optimize specifically for them. MSN is virtually non-existent even with good rankings there.
Almost all from Google - These stats are typically the same for all my sites - Though I find that Yahoo! visitors convert well for sales, and to me thats the main thing I'm interested in. ___________________________________________ Google 171362 90.8 % 171538 84.5 % Yahoo! 7647 4 % 7878 3.8 % AOL 3778 2 % 3778 1.8 % Unknown SE 2507 1.3 % 2507 1.2 % Netscape 616 0.3 % 628 0.3 % G(cache) 530 0.2 % 14236 7 %