I'm not complaining, really. I've got several fairly new web sites which are getting some reasonable traffic from Google and MSN. I'm just wondering why I get next to nothing from Yahoo. Everything I've read seems to indicate that most people will get traffic from Yahoo long before Google picks them up at all. Here are some referral stats from the last month: - Google: 458 - MSN: 411 - Ask Jeeves: 105 - AOL: 15 - Dogpile: 5 - Yahoo: 4 As I said I'm pretty happy with Google delivering the most hits. Just curious what Google and MSN might like that Yahoo would not. Any clues? Thanks! Gary
You know there is a defiant trend the last few weeks.... people complaining that they are getting little to no traffic from Yahoo. I even read a post on another board about how a guy was #2 for a decent KW in Yahoo but got no traffic. I wrote a small article on blog about position and how it effects traffic in MSN & Yahoo.... interesting stuff. Has anyone thought that MSN & Google might be pulling in more of the searches lately???
One of my sites is #14 out of 92 million #1 out of 5.4 million The above is for yahoo and the keywords are mainstream products, jewellery/jewelry related and the traffic has been under 50 per day,gobsmackingly poor for the positions it holds.
I get tons of traffic from Google. MSN sends me quite a bit. Yahoo has been dropping out accross all (6) sites over the last couple months. Right now they are barely sending more than Ask.
So this means one of two things: - No one is using Yahoo anymore, or - People are using Yahoo but most of them are only clicking sponsored listings I find both of those hard to believe. Even though Yahoo's inline sponsored results are pretty well disguised. Interesting...
I am finding myself in the same boat now. After the jagger update, my google rankings crashed and burned. They are all now in the process of climbing back up to where they were ( still not all there yet), but during that time, I was getting loads of traffic still from yahoo, as I always had been. In the past week or two though, my rankings have dropped to non existance for all but one keyword phrase in yahoo. Not sure what is up with yahoo, but it concerns me.
Conspiracy theory idiocy. My traffic from Yahoo has dropped from 50-100 referrals per day to <10. Most of my rankings have tanked. On the back of jagger wiping me out on Google this just takes the cake. Someone kill me now.
I think someone is getting a great laugh out of all of this. I mean, where is all of that traffic going? It does have to go *somewhere* right?
Yeah I'm wondering if that's it. Anyone know what the latest figures are on Yahoo's search traffic? I haven't used Yahoo to search for anything since maybe 1999 or so.
Something change recently but the question is what? A lot of sites suddenly dropped out. Maybe they are rotating results because when my site went #2 for a prime keyword other sites were gone now a few of them are back & my site is gone. I sort of think someone is taking cash to wipe out competitors. I know it sounds like a conspiracy...
I'm starting to see a lot of traffic from MSn and some from google.... Yahoo used to be my #1 source as i was number 1 there for my keyword... but now within the past week they've completely booted me from the top 100 for that keyword...
Of you who are being dropped by Yahoo, what % of incoming links would you estimate come from the DP Coop if you use it?
Just another stat to throw into the mix. Here are my crawler hits in the last two days on one of my sites: GoogleBot: 71 MSNBot: 37 Slurp (yahoo): 6 Seems even a month ago Yahoo was slurping my sites much more frequently than this.
My ranking in Yahoo is awesome, but I get VERY little traffic. I used to get 15% of traffic referred from them, now it's 8% - no change in rankings. I get more traffic from Alta Vista than I do Yahoo!
I agree Yahooo is losing ground and MSN is sure to pass them up. Right now they do give decent traffic.
I am trying hard to get crawled on yahoo, but what is the ISP? or what do they call it there yahoobot? crawl.yahoo? I have MSN, and google down but yahoo has me stumped.... Thank you.. I would start my own post on this but unsure how to so this... This is my first time here. Thank you!!