Yahoo regional sites

very diffrent results on the regional sites (ca. , au. etc) then the main

[BroadProspect]

I am seeing VERY diffrent results between the diffrent yahoo regional sites (http://au.search.yahoo.com/ , [ca.search.yahoo.com...] , [uk.search.yahoo.com...] ) and the main yahoo site, some of my sites are ranked very well on ALL the regional sites but rank poorly on the main yahoo site (http://www.yahoo.com ) and some of them which are ranked #1 for top competative terms in the regional sites do not even apear in the main yahoo site ( in the searches I am using the "search all the web" option)

Any idea what is the couse for the diffrence?

Thanks
/BP

[sem4u]

I am seeing something similar.

One site has great rankings on Yahoo! UK, using both "the web" and "UK only" options. The positions for my keywords on both searches on Yahoo! UK are virtually the same.

On Yahoo.com most of most of my keywords are not even in the top 100. This wasn't the case two months ago.

This site is a .co.uk and is hosted in the UK.

[BroadProspect]

All sites sites are hosted in the USA and have the same TLS .com ...
Maybe the region where the links comes from count? maybe it is the affect of Yahoo WebRank masured by visitors from that region?
any other ideas?
I havn't been able to validate any of my theories that may explain it .

Check your positions not just on the uk.yahoo, try ca.yahoo and au.yahoo, are you still seeing your site rank much higher then the uk one?
/BP

[sem4u]

OK for my main keyphrase these are the positions for "the web" search:

Yahoo! UK - #2
Yahoo! Aus - #20
Yahoo.com - not in top 100
Yahoo! Canada - not in top 100

The links for this site mostly come from the USA, because that is where most of the related companies willing to trade links are based.

I don't really have a theory either.

Anyone else seeing the same?

[mfishy]

Wondering the same?

[sem4u]

Anyone else seeing differences for rankings on regional Yahoo! sites?

[tonmaster]

I have seen this aswell!

I also cought it while some changes were happening.
I used to be in the first SERP for a competitive search term, both in .com and .co.uk (for instance)
the yahoo.com was ranked #6, and the co.uk was at #2.

It was very interesting to see, since I have no connection to the uk.

My rank on yahoo.com was stable, and have been on
that rank for as far as I can rememmber.
Then suddenly it fell from the top100 results,
and now it can be found at no.87
On .co.uk it is still second in the first results page.

I see that this behaviour is common, and didnt only effect my sites.

Anyone knows more about that?
what changes were made? what reason can cause the
fact that a rank will fall so much, while
sitting strong on co.uk which is not really relevant.

[mboydnv]

count me in, getting the same situation for "<snip>" UK and usa are different serps. most of my back links are USA though...hmmmm

[edited by: martinibuster at 3:16 am (utc) on May 24, 2005]
[edit reason] No specifics, please (best for you, too. Your competitors read here, too). ;) [/edit]

[newwebster]

This is Yahoo's biggest mistake in the last update. The Yahoo.com results are skewed to US based hosting only. Additionally, I think that there is weight to outbound links from a page. If those links point to nameservers outside of the US, then your ranking for Yahoo.com will be effected. In doing this, they are only allowing relevent results around US based hosted sites only. This is just not right. Just because a site is not US orientated does not mean it is less relevent to the search term. Additionally, a site maybe hosted in Canada but the business could be located in the US and have the most relevent material for the search term but will not show up on Yahoo.com search just because of where their DNS is located. Just plain stupid IMO.

Side note: I understand what they are trying to do in getting more local, but using DNS info is not enough to determine location.

[GerBot]

I've got a #1 ranked Yahoo.com site which is #8 on yahoo.co.uk.
It is a dot com with an UK IP.
the inbounds are US biased as are the outgoings.

I'd much prefer to #1 in yahoo.co.uk