Yahoo Traffic Up?

[Lee]

Has anyone else noticed a large increase in Yahoo traffic over the last few weeks?

I know on our side we are seeing u to a 50% increase in a 2 week period :eek:

Regards,

Lee

[BDBionic]

Yahoo!'s index is finally coming of age, so to speak. They'd licensed Google's for a good while, coming out with their own a few months back. They've been ramping it up and updating it alot as of late, so you probably have a great many more pages in their index than before. :groovy:

[Chilihost]

I have been #1 on yahoo for a few search terms since their reindexing a few months ago, my stats show no real change in the amount of referrals from them.

Maybe you just got a boost in your rankings? Good on ya, mate!

cheers,
Luke

[Dzinerbear]

I'm liking the new Yahoo, too. I've got some number one's for some great keywords, even some good foreign language words. I'm mucho happy.

Michael

[jIgG]

i'm getting scanned by that Slurp thing like mofo. Last week I had 150 visits in a day

[desslock]

Perhaps you just have gotten better listings in the Google / Yahoo search engines in general. Typically my referrer report reveals my traffic from Google.com to outpace Yahoo.com slightly more then 2 to 1.

However, if I also add the traffic from the google.other_countries that is even higher.

in seven days it shows -
2385: http://www.google.com/
2235: http://images.google.com/
1109: http://search.yahoo.com/
267: http://www.google.de/
190: http://www.google.fr/
188: http://www.google.ca/
165: http://www.google.es/
164: http://www.google.it/
161: http://images.google.co.uk/
etc etc etc

I'll tell ya. Probably the best thing you get from a listing in the Yahoo directory isn't the traffic, it is the improved Google page rank.

Steve

[BDBionic]

My traffic from Yahoo! definitely compliments overall traffic, but it's all about Google, still, when it comes to SEs.
My main SE traffic-geared site stats follow.
Yahoo's up a slight bit this month, as I've noticed more of my pages from this particular site indexed in their directory.
But as you can see things still weigh heavily in favor of Google. Rankings on Google are higher for this site as well.
Be sure your stats designate a difference between search traffic and other traffic from a domain. Some stats programs consider all "MSN" and "Yahoo" domain traffic as SE traffic, whereas it could be traffic from MSN and Yahoo groups, email, etc.

May:
- Google 33273
- Yahoo 9804
- MSN 1306
- AOL 959
- Netscape 812
- Others 227
- Earth Link 216
- AltaVista 190
- Dogpile 150
- Seznam.cz 109

April:
- Google 41548
- Yahoo 8948
- MSN 1846
- Netscape 923
- AOL 907
- Others 381
- Earth Link 319
- Dogpile 205
- AltaVista 155
- Excite 128

March:
- Google 44687
- Yahoo 7978
- MSN 2022
- Netscape 1818
- AOL 944
- Earth Link 413
- Others 343
- Dogpile 134
- InfoSpace 114
- Excite 92

[Bec]

I'm trying to figure out why a mainstream site I webmaster for someone is showing #1 and #6 in Yahoo for her search terms, and nowhere to be seen in the first 6 pages or more on Google now ... she held #1 in almost every engine for a long time. Any ideas why high ranking on everyone else but Google -- no changes to the site, etc?

[Dzinerbear]

Bec,

Can you PM me the URL and I can have a look? I've had a bit of reverse problem, I can get a number one in Google, but I'm nowhere to be seen (until recently) in others. Yahoo, of late, is performing very well for me. MSN, I'm hit and miss.

Anyway, Bec, if you send me the URL, I'll have a look and see if there's anything I can think of.

Cheers
Michael

[desslock]

Originally posted by Bec
I'm trying to figure out why a mainstream site I webmaster for someone is showing #1 and #6 in Yahoo for her search terms, and nowhere to be seen in the first 6 pages or more on Google now ... she held #1 in almost every engine for a long time. Any ideas why high ranking on everyone else but Google -- no changes to the site, etc?

Hi Bec:

Keep in mind that the search results you see on Yahoo (which are 'Powered by Google') often are different then the results returned from a direct search on Google. The results you get on Google are the "latest edition" of their most current crawl and index.

Yahoo pulls their search results from Google, but that stuff is not as fresh. Those are Google's "official syndicated results" for other search engines. That is the stuff that's been allowed to mellow and settle down for a few days.

So it is possible that the results you are seeing now in Google will propogate over to Yahoo in a week or so. Or perhaps you are just seeing on Google your results as undigested blips. Hopefully once Google has digested this current crawl, the results will settle they way you like.

Steve

[jIgG]

Google doesn't power Yahoo search results anymore.

[Dzinerbear]

Yeah they haven't for several months now. And in fact, Yahoo has it's own search engine now at Yahoo Search which is different than just plan old Yahoo

Yahoo was never a search engine per se, it was a directory. Now, Yahoo has both a directory and a search engine. And soon, Microsoft will have a search engine, too.

And Yahoo's presence is actually helping us all because they are the first bigger player to show up in the ring to take on Google, so Google can't call all of the shots anymore. They're still the biggest, but they've got to consider their competition now. I've noticed a couple of adjustments in Google's algorithm that are a direct result of the appearance of some competition.

I was just at a search engine conference a couple of weeks ago, where I learned that MSN is huge in the UK and Yahoo is next to non-existent. But Yahoo's very big in Asia.

Cheers,
Michael

[BDBionic]

We have to expect differences between the directories of Yahoo and Google as each one tries to one up the other.
They want to yield different indexes and return different results, hoping that people will find what they do return to be more relevant, useful and comprehensive.

Each one has its own ranking system that they each consider to be better.

So it shouldn't be a surprise when you find your sites performing quite differently in each.

[Chilihost]

I think that is the whole point behind different search engines, to get slightly different results for the same search terms, that way surfers have more choice

cheers,
Luke

[Lee]

Thanks for the replies everyone appreciate the additional insight

Regards,

Lee