yahoo and google

The relationship?

[CoreUnderneath]

I have just found that my site is listed in yahoo for one of my search terms but it lies at #16. The site its self has only just been crawled by google so i cant assume that yahoo got its listing from there. I Havant really optimised my site for yahoo but am I right in thinking that yahoo uses google for hits primary results now?

Also where can i find information about improving my yahoo ranking? I'm not sure what information is right after recent changes.

I appreciate that this may be in the wrong forum but i wanted to know the situation with google and yahoo now.

[Terry_Plank]

Yes, you're right that the results are primarily Google results at Yahoo. Think about what Google want's to see in a site to recogize for having products and/or services related to your appropriate keywords and you will be optimizing for Yahoo.

[CoreUnderneath]

Can I assume my result being listed in yahoo has come from another source? I'm not even sure if I listed it in google.

Thanks,

[daamsie]

I think the only places Yahoo gets its results are Google and its directory.. Like Terry said, if you follow the guidelines for optimizing for Google, Yahoo will follow!

I'm not even sure if I listed it in google

You don't have to 'list' your site in Google to be indexed by them.. their crawlers generally follow links to your site from other sites and will find you that way.

[Hardwood Guy]

That also seems to be true with AOL. I haven't even bothered to optimize for either but the results are nearly identical in aol searches..and just a tad off in Yahoo.

[snowfox121]

Along the subject of Google and Yahoo, i have noticed something strange this past week. It started exactly on New Year's Day. I pay for a commercial web counter that allows me to view some stats about visitors. Up until December 31, about 50 percent of my search-prompted guests arrived from Google, 30 percent from Yahoo, and the rest from other places. i can track this pattern back for months.

Starting exactly on New Year's morning, Google and Yahoo switched places in these results. Now Yahoo is accounting for 50 percent of search-prompted visits and Google is down to 30 percent or less. Since these results are graphed, the change is startlingly obvious.

My total web traffic appears unaffected. Same number of new and repeat visitors. My SERP positions and PR appear the same. What would account for Yahoo suddenly sending all these guests, and Google declining? Does anyone have any ideas?