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Yahoo > Google ?

by abednego
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Why is it so much easier to rank at Yahoo? Getting to page 1 seems easy... but for the same domain/keywords; my page is buried in pages 2+ at google... no matter how much content I add

Anyone else experience this?

I want traffic from both!
#&gt #> #google #yahoo
  • Profile picture of the author australiaseo
    Yahoo and Google follow different algorithms to crawl, index and rank a webpage. Follow the guidelines designed by each of these search engines which can help you get faster ranking. For this use Yahoo help central and Google webmaster Central
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  • Profile picture of the author Candace07
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    Google is much harder to deal with than any other search engines algorithm
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    I think that it is a lot easier to get free listings in Google and MSN.com then Yahoo. I always get traffic from both but never from Yahoo.

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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    Look at Bing. Many 55+ yr old people grew up with MSN and Bing is their 1st search. Especially medical niches which older folk search more than young folk.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikemac1
      Originally Posted by DogScout View Post

      Look at Bing. Many 55+ yr old people grew up with MSN and Bing is their 1st search. Especially medical niches which older folk search more than young folk.
      Also Bing will be taking over Yahoo search in the near future so enjoy the benefit of Yahoo search's placement while it lasts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sam101
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    If you build a lot of backlinks, you can get good rankings in Yahoo almost immediately. But to rank in Google is more difficult, you cannot just hope to rank merely with backlinks.
    About 70% of searches are done on Google and Yahoo is about 20% or so, hence even if you get a high rank in Yahoo does not mean you will get a lot of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Wow, just out of interest I tried a keyword Im fighting for in the big G, and its 2nd page in the big Y :p

    Nice!
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  • Profile picture of the author greff
    I don't know much about Yahoo's algorithms (you never really "know" about those anyway), but I do believe that your site age is a major google consideration. As mentioned above, I think it is true for backlinks not being as important with google.

    Content IS king at google.
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    • Profile picture of the author HCLee
      For me I don't see a consistent pattern. Using only keywords that get to Google's page 1 position, very few of them do show up on Yahoo's page 1. But the good thing is that while some of my new sites get the Google sandbox, I still get some traffic from Yahoo for those sites showing up on Yahoo page 1.
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    Way more competition at google!
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  • Profile picture of the author punksluck
    Seems of late that google is ranking sites more on page loading times and web 2.0 design, or so I've heard.
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    • Profile picture of the author abednego
      Originally Posted by punksluck View Post

      Seems of late that google is ranking sites more on page loading times and web 2.0 design, or so I've heard.
      Do you think they're less reliant on the amount of content and age now?
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      • Profile picture of the author dougp
        You have to be careful with generalizing so quickly. One example is hardly enough evidence to conclude that its easier to rank in Yahoo compared to Google.
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        • Profile picture of the author Monkey Jones
          I find that my new sites will show up on top in Yahoo - for awhile. As I build unique quality content and backlinks my sites will rise in Google and many times drop to page 10 in Yahoo.

          I think Yahoo is the most backwards search engine there is. For all the sites I've had rank well in Yahoo (even #1) there wasn't that much traffic. If I have a site that ranks #3 on Yahoo and #15 on Google for a keyword, I seem to get 2x as much traffic from Google (and that's page 2!)

          As a side note, Bing is starting to deliver quality traffic.
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          • Profile picture of the author abednego
            Originally Posted by Monkey Jones View Post


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            As a side note, Bing is starting to deliver quality traffic.
            I'll have to use it more.

            I tried it a few months ago and hated the results it gave ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Zukario
    In my opinion getting ranking in google is alot easier maybe because i use blogspot nearly all the time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Avdo
    I have several sites full optimized for google, adding content daily, and I get 80% of traffic from yahoo.. traffic from google is growing too, but much slower
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  • Profile picture of the author -Jericho-
    I get mixed results. I can get on first page on Google and I'm nowhere to be found on yahoo and vice verse.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinDupre
    Google data must much larger and way more complicated than yahoo.
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