Yahoo is only 3%

In my stats yahoo has 3%

[Crush]

Like I say..Yahoo gives me 3% of my traffic and I am #1 for the money keywords everywhere.

Almost a waste of time

[angiolo]

I think that you should consider all the Yahoo engines group ( yahoo, Altavista, Alltheweb and till now MSN search).

On several sites, considering all that group, Yahoo give me from 25 to 30 %.

[petehall]

Here in the UK Yahoo! seems to be making a big effort to push their results through ISPs and the like.

I can't speak for any other market but the UK one Yahoo! is definitely worth the effort.

[Crush]

Google 26637 88.6 % 29152 88 %
Yahoo 1042 3.4 % 1153 3.4 %
MSN 974 3.2 % 974 2.9 %
Virgilio 327 1 % 331 0.9 %
AOL 233 0.7 % 233 0.7 %
Google (Images) 183 0.6 % 183 0.5 %
Unknown search engines 179 0.5 % 256 0.7 %
AltaVista 126 0.4 % 427 1.2 %
Netscape 58 0.1 % 60 0.1 %
Tiscali 54 0.1 % 68 0.2 %
Lycos 28 0 % 36 0.1 %
Ask Jeeves UK 23 0 % 23 0 %

[itisgene]

Crush, I think you optimized for Google TOO WELL. ;)

One of my sites get 60% from yahoo 30% from MSN and 5% from Google. So, it is just a matter of SEO which one to target. Is google getting the traffic from the moneyy keywords you mentioned? Are you in good ranking for those on Yahoo?

[helenp]

I rather think itīs similar as my case,
I only had my homepage and few more pages in yahoo for weeks.
Yahoo was about 2% only, and msn maybe 1%.
But now I have about 180 pages in yahoo of about 300 pages and yahoo is growing in my stats, know itīs about an 8%.

[2_much]

That's a very general comment, as traffic is very dependent on which country you are targeting, target audience, keywords, etc.

I have sites that have a smaller percentage of traffic than Google, but conversions are almost double. Also, another site ranks in MSN based on the Yahoo listing, and although the traffic isn't incredible, the orders are more than we've ever gotten through Google.

So there are many variables that you have to consider. It could be that based on your variables, it's not worth spending too much time on Yahoo.

[chrisnrae]

"but conversions are almost double"

I tend to see the same. Yahoo and MSN convert way better in most of my areas. Their searchers seem to have a higher percentage of shoppers willing to whip out the credit card. ;)

[sit2510]

>>> Almost a waste of time

Normally I don't concentrate so much on Yahoo, however, I find that Yahoo can be fascinating. It serves as an added bonus for those sites that perform well in Google. For some small niche sites of mine that perform so poorly in Google, Yahoo becomes the saviour recently.

[osfp]

sit2510
agree!

[Crush]

I wish they would do better because I am up the creek without a paddle if i go down. What I am saying is that I have 3% of traffic and I am #1 for must of my money words. That is not going to be my saviour :(

[soapystar]

100% of nothing is 0
1% of 100000 is 1000

so its actual vistors that count not percentages.

[chrisnrae]

I think it also depends on the target market. Its been agreed many times before that different types of industries can often see way more searches from one engine than another, even though they hold the saqme positions in both - due to the demographics/assumptions of demographics based on industry performace in certain engines of who uses which search engines.

[soapystar]

see way more searches from one engine than another,

and for travel sites on a portal designed to dominate travel searches?

[chrisnrae]

I don't understand what you're asking/stating with that.

[soapystar]

i was agreeing with your statement that different search engines will be better/worse for particular searches. Given that Yahoo place there own affiliate travel products at the top of all travel searches i was saying that perhaps Yahoo would not be a great engine for travel sites.

Thats without even mentioning the travel sites they've dumped. ooops, i just did!

[chrisnrae]

Thanks for the clarification. I think I need more caffiene. ;)

[boredguru]

Yup this is what i came looking for.
my current stats are

- Google 47098
- Yahoo 857
- AOL 176
- MSN 133
- Unknown search engines104
- Netscape 93
- Dogpile 56
- AltaVista 52
- Earth Link 34
- Search.com 15
- AllTheWeb 15
- Excite 13
- DMOZ 12
- Hotbot 10
- Virgilio 10
- Seznam 8
- WebCrawler 7
- Kvasir 6
- Alexa 5
- MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)5
- Mamma 4
- Baidu 3
- InfoSpace 1
- Go2Net (Metamoteur)1
- Lycos 1

Now i would appreciate if i could know what to do to optimise for yahoo too. What does Yahoo! take into affect to rank a site?
Any help will be appreciated.

[gpmgroup]

Rather than looking at relative percentages volumes how do your search terms vary between engines?

We find that the Yahoo searches are for much more general terms whereas the Google searches are far more specific.

[osfp]

"Thats without even mentioning the travel sites they've dumped."
if they think they can put down all travel sites i promest you many webmasters they will create milions of free pages at there geocities,ocatch,tripod ,lycos,and lets see if they can put them all down.