I do get visitors from yahoo eventhough I didn't submit my blog to it's directory. I guess it depends if the keywords being searched can be found in your blog.
Well, now I checked that my website is listed by yahoo search engine with site:<website>, but unfortunately with keywords, which I am top in google I cannot even see my website in yahoo pages. Maybe the system of Yahoo search is different that Google one.
I on the other hand get much traffic van Yahoo, but not from Google. It's because Yahoo cares more about domains than google. I'm #1 on Yahoo for 'CoD5' (call of duty 5, upcoming game). On google however I am on page 3 for that term. My website url is cod5.us btw.
I consistently get about a two-to-one ratio of Google-to-Yahoo traffic. Last month saw 26,960 unique visitors from Google and 13,352 UVs from Yahoo to the website in signature #1. I don't do anything specifically in my SEO that is targeting any one search engine. I just try to do quality, broad-based, onpage and offpage SEO on quality content.
I find that Yahoo visitors are buyers, and Google visitors are just lookers, Therefore I like Yahoo much better.
its better to get google traffic.and dont worry about this you will get yahoo traffice also because google is fast but yahoo is very slow so wait and see
I have one site where almost all of the traffic (about 90%) comes from search engines. The site is over 2 years old and it places fairly well for its keywords in all major search engines, so I attribute most of the difference in the search engine results to the number of searches conducted, rather than how the site is ranked in the results. Of the 90% of the traffic coming from search engines, about 70% was from Google, 12% from Yahoo, 3% from Live/MSN and 2% from AOL. The other 3% of search engine traffic was from everyone else. While the Yahoo traffic is a far cry from Google's, at the current rate it will still account for over 40,000 page views over a 12 month period, so it is significant enough to pay attention to. I can't say the same about the other search engines.
both google and yahoo use different strategy thats could be reason that you are well optimized in google compare to yahoo.
Sadly it is da truth! In checking my serps yesterday I am on the front page or second page 39 of my better keywords on Yahoo. Google, nowhere near as good - nowhere! While being on the first page or even second page should be great news alas it isn't. I wasn't really looking to place great on yahoo but I won't turn it down. The results in terms of traffic are sobering. If the amount of traffic from yahoo equates with death. I am dead, very dead, like really dead. Google is the big dog on the porch, no doubt about it and I am the dead proof. When you look at the serps from these two - google and yahoo you wonder if they are on the same planet. It isn't about getting to the first page of the search engines - It IS about getting to the first page of Google. You would think with having 11% of the search engine traffic it would amount to some traffic? I suggest that number is inaccurate, or so few people are looking in my niche that it results in a trickle, at best.
Your right on target. I get thousands of page views a day from targeted keywords on Google, and get only 1 tenth of that from Yahoo...and my position is higher on Yahoo.
You could list your site on their directory for $300. This would give your site some special attention.
How can i improve my page indexing in yahoo,as i am getting most of my traffic from google and my indexing is also better in google as compared to yahoo.
we have just been accepted into the yahoo directory so hopefully that will help our organic listings.
Ranking higher in Google is ideal. If you mess with your site to rank higher in Yahoo, you can lose your rankings in Google. Google yields traffic and Yahoo sends very little.