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Old 10-24-2008, 10:52 AM
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Default Re: How to rank well in yahoo?

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Originally Posted by newsblaze View Post
Here is a better question for this thread:
- who gets 10 times the traffic from Yahoo or MSN than they get from Google?
Answer: NOBODY!

Hitwise US Search Engine Stats for Sept 2008:
http://www.hitwise.com/datacenter/se...neanalysis.php
  • www.google.com 71.16%
  • search.yahoo.com 18.06%

Hitwise UK Search Engine Stats for Sept 2008:
http://www.hitwise.co.uk/datacenter/...neanalysis.php
  • www.google.co.uk 73.28%
  • uk.search.yahoo.com 3.22%

Unless your site has been banned from Google, you can't reasonably assume that Yahoo! would ever provide twice as much traffic, never mind ten times as much. They simply don't receive the search volume that Google does so, given the number of people who use Google, it would stand to reason than the majority of your traffic would come from that source.

As far as the traffic you're getting from Yahoo!, it is what it is. You can't get blood from a stone. Realistically, Yahoo!'s not likely to perform much better for you than it currently is.

It's great that you rank well there but most people are much more concerned with ranking well on Google, and rightly so. You'd be wise to focus your efforts there.

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