I think most of us are on that road. I had top rankings for one of my sites and was getting small traffic. Then Yahoo did an update and my keywords on that engine popped up to the top, and BOOM!, a huge increase in traffic. The best combination if you can't rank in Google is ranking in Yahoo and MSN. MSN alone will just bring in a terribly low amount of visitors.
SEO between between the three has become extremely difficult. It seems that unless you are optimizing for "yhwndfiuhhqasuhfuhuhaokjhh" you can never rank well in all three. In my experience, when one is down, the other two are up.
Hello!! Guys... Just browsing..When noticed this thread.. Interesting because just started.. Marketing Seems extreemly complicated. Or seem you rather have to put a heap of work in for very little reward.. Just spent £200 on Yahoo.. to get an advert.. I now realise it was a waste of money. Haven't noticed any difference in traffic flow.
With a bit of effort, i have ranked all my sites on the first page of msn for their main "key word Phrase"
I hold almost every top ranking for my primary keywords on MSN. This is due to the coop. Yahoo and Google are another story.
We were doing very well with msn up until this week when our kw's tanked. Wondering if there was and algo change.
I'm not quite owning MSN, but I am ranked highest there for my #1 keyword. Right now It's MSN #7 Yahoo #14 Google #15 But I haven't exactly shot up the ranks for any of them, the graph on my keyword tracker is quite steady and all three engines are remarkably parallel. Is it possible that MSN and Yahoo are more suceptible to maniuplation with different types of sites then mine which is purely informational? Shopping is the only one that pops into my head... When I search for my keyword, google shows informational sites and 1 shopping, and MSN shows 3 shopping, 3 info sites, followed by my site.
Yep I'm in with you all here. Very good or top ranking in MSN for a few of my sites, but with Google....... ....It's hard work...& One site not even touched yet! Ian