Yahoo is the most inferior search engine out there. Their listings are stale and spammy. You'll never get "quality" results. I think MSN does do a great job at keeping up with Google as far as quality results, but yahoo does beat them as far as searches performed.
I don't think yahoo fares better than Google as far as search is concerned and google is the numero uno in the search business and yahoo comes a distant second in the race...
For one of my sites, http://www.nissangtrblog.com I am getting very good traffic from Yahoo. Way better than google. Thank you Yahoo if you are listening.
According to Analytics, here is my 1 month stats!! google / organic 5,684 wholinks2me.com / referral 2,667 (direct) / (none) 2,209 paguito.com / referral 1,000 baidu / organic 509 yahoo / organic 110 mail.google.com / referral 79 directorycritic.com / referral 75 baidu.com / referral 57 msn / organic 22 All traffic sources sent 12,993 visits via 173 sources and mediums!!!
I find that I have a ton more pages indexed by Yahoo! than Google, but still get the lion's share of traffic from Google. I tend to agree that Yahoo! has seen some small percentage spike sin traffic in recent days. Does anyone else have the same experience, as per more pages indexed by Yahoo! more easily?
The search engine? Yahoo gets more traffic than Google because they are older and most people use their mail, classifieds, hosting and various services. The homepage is more popular but the actual search traffic is less. You are talking about specific keyphrazes that are less competitive in Yahoo than Google.
According to statistics, Yahoo usage has increased, MSN is down, and Google is still the "King", over 65% of searches.
That's what you want, real traffic from Google. It all depends on the SERP's. One of my targeted high traffic keywords puts me on page 1 of Yahoo and page 2 of Google, and I get 10 times as much traffic from Google from this key term.
It must be those specific keywords or their place of origin. For example if some one isn't getting enough traffic from google and has China as the target market, then Baidu is the search king over there. So it must be your keywords.
This is a good point, I would not have thought of this, I guess a huge chunk of yahoo traffic is not exactly targeted traffic.