Great post, and totally true. I rank on the first page of Yahoo for a couple of moderately competitive keywords and it still manages to pull in almost 1,000 unique visitors per month like that. Of course, Google sends me way more. But you're right that Yahoo can make big bucks for people who rank #1 for very competitive keywords.
It just depends on what you are trying to rank for in my honest opinion. For example alot of the Teenagers use Google instead of the other 2 engines. You have to take that in note
FOr a few sites Yahoo gives great traffic because I am higher in the SERPS for those keywords than in Google. Yes Yahoo pales in comparison if rankings are equal just due to the fact that most people 'google' stuff. When was the last time you heard someone say ... yahoo it?
Hey guys Yahoo is the second most used search engine in world wide.I think yahoo not giving poor traffic.But it not similar to Google.
Google provides me 20 - 30 times more traffic than Yahoo. And I have several keywords ranked number 1 on Yahoo. Yet I get very little traffic from Yahoo. Any suggestions?
Yes yahoo gives poor traffic, as only 5% of traffic come from yahoo as other all traffic come from Google. Google has better algorithm than the yahoo as google can index keyword quickly than yahoo. So yahoo gives bad traffic to the site.
I haven't had a problem with yahoo traffic, ever, infact I've found it to be more targetted traffic compared with Google/Bing, it may just be your keywords.
I am on First Page (Third Result) of Yahoo for a particular keyword that gets 6600 Broad Searches a month in Google. Guess What? I have so far gotten only 2 Visitors from Yahoo for that keyword since one month!
Im not sure about traffic, but it seems to take a lot longer to get indexed by yahoo than it does google.
Ydes yahoo is giving really a bad traffic as it is givinng only 5% of traffic. And all other traffic is coming from the Google, I think yahoo algo is different than the google. So it needs more time to index any site than the google.