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How's your traffic?

         

2_much

7:57 am on Nov 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'm curious to know how people are doing since the switchover. If you're ranking well in Google/Yahoo, have you seen an increase or decrease of traffic from Yahoo?

Today I saw something interesting in my logs. For a site that is ranking on the first page of a medium competitive keyword (980,000 searches in Google), it's getting almost the exact amount of visitors from Google and Yahoo. Also, it's getting almost exactly 1/2 of that amount from AOL.

Do others see a similar trend?

fathom

8:06 am on Nov 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Google 43.23% (from 50%)
Yahoo! 22.16% (from 18%)
AOL 10.15% (was neck & neck was Yahoo)
MSN 5.32% (before Google/AOL was 3rd)

With Yahoo -- Google's SERP's helped alot! :)

skibum

6:40 am on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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One small niche site that's listed in YAHOO! and ODP hit #1 on Google (almost feels like Vegas:)) and is now getting referrals from Earthlink, Cometsystems, and other Google DBs. It's now getting referrals from AOL as well. YAHOO! category referrals have not dropped off at all and overall traffic is up.

Traffic is up for sites that were not listed in YAHOO!, since the Google results show up higher now.

mansterfred

8:34 am on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Yahoo traffic down , google traffic up. Yahoo sales way down, google sales normal. Yahoo traffic had a much more qualified buyer than Google. Hope Yahoo goes back to old format as it was a money machine.

mansterfred.

Tor

11:44 am on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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For our english sites we can see an average increase in Yahoo refferals of about 50% since the switch took plase. So we are naturally very pleased with Yahoo right now! ;)

steveb

12:01 pm on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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My traffic is up, but I'm most pleased with how my directory referals are up nicely. I love the red arrow.

jackofalltrades

12:31 pm on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)



I didnt really see much from Yahoo till this month - now about 50% that of Google.

(ive not got very good stats logs though...)

JOAT

keyplyr

9:27 pm on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Yahoo traffic has been increasing steadily. Mostly from the directory since I was able to sucessfully change the description. Yahoogle referrals are higher, but the increase is not quite as great as directory.

pageoneresults

9:35 pm on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Same here. A good steady increase in Yahoo! referrals across the board.

DrCool

10:09 pm on Nov 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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On most of my sites I have seen a huge drop in Yahoo traffic. Those sites aren't ranked particularly well in Google and were ranked excellent in Yahoo.

Another site (my big money maker) I am seeing almost identical traffic numbers. The ratio of Google traffic vs. Yahoo traffic is tilting in Google's favor though. Between those two it is split about 60/40. That isn't taking the international Google traffic though.

JadaKiss

5:30 pm on Nov 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

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My traffic has dropped by 60% because I had excellent yahoo rankings and not so good google rankings.

WebManager

3:42 pm on Nov 9, 2002 (gmt 0)



Just signed up to Yahoo - surprised at the number of hits. Nothing compared to Google, but significant nevertheless.