Yahoo not returning hits

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by swapshop, May 11, 2008.

  1. #1
    We have google ripping thru our sites and google generates a lot of good hits.

    Issue is yahoo is also crawling every day but it generates no hits at all or maybe one a month.

    Is there a way to assist yahoo? Seems strange that yahoo never returns us any hits?
     
    swapshop, May 11, 2008 IP
  2. kewlchat

    kewlchat Well-Known Member

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    #2
    yahoo seems only good for longtail for me..
    msn was easy to dominat w onpage..and in google backlinks do the trick.

    def for me yahoo is hard to understand the algo..
    they got a crazy se algo :)
     
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  3. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    Does anyone receive any hits rather than just crawling your sites?
     
    swapshop, May 11, 2008 IP
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    hillord Well-Known Member

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    for yahoo, yes some, but not as much as google send me hits
     
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  5. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    So if no ones gets any real hits compared with google whats the point of allowing yahoo the band width to crawl your sites?
     
    swapshop, May 12, 2008 IP
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    May be yahoo's bot is lazy!
     
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    Yahoo does not send as much traffic to a site as google does. Even though
    I'm ranked well in google and yahoo for some of the same search terms I
    usually get much more traffic from google than I get from yahoo. I do not
    think there is anything you can do about it because yahoo is not as
    popular as google.
     
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    cedric Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I don't get many hits from Yahoo either. How can Alexa can be still ranking Yahoo as the number one website?! It seems like it's not being used that much.
     
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    delhidon Banned

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    Increase keyword density of the target keyword of the page. But it will create problem for you and google will penalize your website. I think google can give lots of traffic. So I am concentrating to optimize our website for google only.
     
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    I believe each search engine has its own crawl behaviors and algorithms.
    I notice my sites will vary differently on each search engine.
     
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  11. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    Thanks for the replies

    Issue is yahoo crawls every 3-4 minutes 24/7 and returns will may 1-2 hits a month

    Google crawls once every day as per our site map and returns well over a 1000 odd hits a day

    I dont want to adjust the site so google slows but there must be somethink a webmaster can do to get hits from yahoo?

    Or is this just normal? What is the point of yahoo then?
     
    swapshop, May 21, 2008 IP
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    qforquack Banned

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    It's probably because no one's looking for your keywords...
     
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  13. swapshop

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    Understand that but if google likes the keywords how do you then make yahoo like then without loosing google hits?

    Keywords like buy sell exchange

    We are on the front page for this and same with google.

    Google for these keywords returns a hugh amount of hits?
     
    swapshop, May 23, 2008 IP