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What's up with that?
How can I improve some Yahoo spots?
I wonder if there is a way to find out how many people use Yahoo compared to Google.
welcome to the wonderful world of Yahoo!
I've come to refer to Y!'s serps as the "YahooYoYo!"
Buuuut, the fact is... Y! gives me very targetted traffic, so I need to give it my attention while I climb up G!
Any quick ways to boost it back up?
I'm trying to get a few links from other sites and buying some textlink ads on relevant sites to increase traffic and ranking. We'll see if that helps.
The traffic was amazing when I was on top for a few days.
I just did a search for a very popular, 3 word search. Five out of the first ten results were absolute garbage.
The first 4 results at least had something to do with the term requested. (Two of my pages happened to be numbers 2 & 3.
The 5th result was full of nonsensical jibberish written in the form of paragraphs with keywords thrown into the mix and of course, "ads by Google"!
The 6th result was a page which redirected to a "business strategies solution provider". Oh yeah ... that's helpful!
The 7th & 8th results were more "ads by Google" scam/spam pages.
The 9th result actually had to do with the search.
The 10th result was yet another nonsensical jibberish page but this time, they did away with paragraphs altogether. Just badly spelled sentences meaning nothing with keywords thrown into the mix and naturally, "ads by Google thrown in.
If Yahoo is still a search engine ... it is one of the worst out there!
many people who get good traffic from google seem to forget that they were once newbies too and come here and talk down to us who NEED to rely on Yahoo while we build our traffic.
there are many who get really targetted traffic from Y!'s far from perfect but so is G! We take what we can get!
other than the basic SEo techniques I dont know how else to optimize for like MSN other than that Blogspot exploit I hear about alot.
Maybe it's the yoyo thing that keeps people from analyzing Yahoo to find ways to do better. If it's that erratic it would be hard to find any trends.
That was quick Liane! You're passionately disgusted with Y! the same way I'm passionately jealous of all you guys with the nice Google traffic! ; )
As of today, G!'s sent me 36 referrals... that's 1.#*$! perday! But Y!'s sending me approx 100 referrals a day .... and I'm on page #3!
As of today, G!'s sent me 36 referrals... that's 1.#*$! perday! But Y!'s sending me approx 100 referrals a day .... and I'm on page #3!
That's because any searchers who still use Yahoo have to go to at least page three to get out from under all the spam on the first two pages! Really, I'm serious. Their results are just pathetic!
You might as well just click on the third or fourth page right from the get go and save yourself the time it takes to investigate all the pond scum which has risen to the top of the Y serps!
You and Ken appear to be Yahoo wiz's , can you tell me,
1, is content the top item
2, relevant links the main thing
3, does yahoo ignore reciprocal links, that is my sites are not authority sites, an one way links are probable gonna be non existent for a while
cheers
I wonder if there is a way to find out how many people use Yahoo compared to Google.
There are lots of studies, most of which show Google is far ahead of Yahoo in terms of the number of queries and of individual users.
Personally, I have noticed less index trouble in Yahoo than Google over the past few months, for the types of information I typically search for.
I'm far from an authority on Y! but mebbe my experience might help you out :
Over the past six months, I've tried recip links and relevant links. In both cases, I was still bouncing around in the serps with every update. The #1 site in my category seems hand-coded and never moves (filled with cloaked affiliate links)... go figger!
Mebbe co-incidence but I have since stopped recip linking and my position seems to have stabilized (fingers crosses). I slowly cut off all the non-link-back recips, then the small categories and finally, the non relevant links. From now on, I will be VERY selective with recip linking.
What I HAVE done is make sure I add original content 3 times a week. And article marketing. This is a VERY good thing...
Just a thought Liane... are you from UK? .co.uk's results are far far from OK and if you're from there I can understand your comments. My category contains lots of "spam" too, but when I consider things objectively, these sites ARE following mainstream SEO methods (and they are good at it).
Soooo.... do I know Yahoo? Heck, no... I don't even understand my wife sometimes... and we work together at home all day!
In closing... here's my strategy for Y!... nothing! Just concentrate on making my site the best that it can be and keep adding content.
Cheers
Methinks i'll save up for a top, directory listing like,,, Yahoo,, an sigh, ,, research the content, to the customers contentment :)
Secondly, content is not all they are looking for because my site is having a well written content with many articles to support it. It ranks 3 for the keyword in Yahoo but only the home page is indexed.When I do a site:www.domain.com all the pages are reflected in Google and MSN but not in Yahoo.. must be some kind of a problem.My site is even updated on a regular basis.
Strangely enough one of my sites ranks extremely high (#5 in Yahoo) for a competetive term and the link point to a default about us page for a Wordpress script. Seems Yahoo just likes the domain name and nothing on this particular page has to do with the search term.
Odd!
One of the key arguements for my site comes number 3 in Yahoo but I get **** all traffic from it. In G it is not in the first 100 unless quoted at which point it comes out top.
From that I deduce that Y pays attention or word ordering while G doesn't. I just wish more punters would use Yahoo as your typical casual web surfer is unlikely to use "advanced" search capabilities.
From that I deduce that Y pays attention or word ordering while G doesn't. I just wish more punters would use Yahoo as your typical casual web surfer is unlikely to use "advanced" search capabilities.
I've generally gotten much better results using advanced search, even in the face of index pushes, etc. It's too bad the engines don't play up the power of advanced search.
Its pretty difficult to understand the algo running behind it though its the same for almost all the major search engines. But still an educated guess can make a better ranking posible.
