Ranking well in Google, but terribly in Yahoo and Bing

by zigato

Posted: 15 years ago 16 replies

As the title suggests, I need some help. While I have Google covered (in the top 2 pages for my 5 main keywords that I want to target), I am nowhere to be found on Yahoo and Bing for these main keywords except for 1 of them.

What can I do to be ranked well in Bing and Yahoo? Although Google is the main player and I'm happy with those rankings, I still want to be found by those who do use Bing and Yahoo so any advice would be appreciated.

#bing #google #ranking #terribly #yahoo

wisdomjobs 15 years ago

Yahoo and Bing loves more keywords in Meta tags but GOOGLE hates it.
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xxxJamesxxx 15 years ago

I wouldn't worry about it. Bing and Yahoo only get a fraction of the traffic Google gets

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- interrev 15 years ago
  
  My Yahoo and Bing traffic actually converts better that my Google traffic. This may just be my own experience, but I'd take the Yahoo and Bing traffic if you can get it, even if it is a fraction.
  
  I don't know if this will make a difference or not, but I saw a boost in my Yahoo and Bing rankings when I set up a My.Yahoo.com and My.Msn.com page and added the RSS feeds from my site to those pages.
  
  I don't have any hard facts to back it up, but thought I'd just throw it out there. Enjoy!
  
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- JSProjects 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by xxxJamesxxx
  
  I wouldn't worry about it. Bing and Yahoo only get a fraction of the traffic Google gets
  
  James
  
  Right. But if you could grab #1 or #2 it's worth the effort. I'm thinking about throwing up a few new sites and seeing if I can get them to rank well in Bing / Yahoo. Just to test it and see the results. I know they're a totally different monster than Google though.
  
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merereilly 15 years ago

Yeah Yahoo actually has the best "success rate" (percentage of searchers who actually visit a website as the result of their search) at 81%.

So I wouldn't write them off. However, I would focus on Google first due to it's overwhelming market share before you move to Yahoo/Bing.

There is something to be said about grabbing the 1 or 2 spot on Yahoo vs lower ranking on Google though.

I just read an article about how Bing is gradually gaining market share day by day, but they're not taking that share from Google. Rather, people are using Bing as an additional search engine along with Google.
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- Canuckystan 15 years ago
  
  I also find conversions from Bing and Yahoo to be better. Yahoo seems to really like exact match URLs much more than the other two. Also, be sure your keywords are in your title from left to right - seems to also make a positive difference.
  
  I'm not betting that Google will always be the dominant search engine - Bing is coming on strong.
  
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markwarrior7 15 years ago

Yahoo and bing love article directories
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JamesGw 15 years ago

How old is your site? Yahoo/Bing tend to take a little longer to index sites than Google.
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alica2011 15 years ago

i think google is 1st major SE and i think important to best index
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eugeneoconnell 15 years ago

I don't worry much about the rank of my site in yahoo/bing. There are a lot more who visits Google anyway.
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JustaWizard 15 years ago

Google is indeed the lion share of searches performed; that said, have you checked you robots.txt file? A large client of our agency came on board recently wondering why their site was doing so poorly, quick check found they were blocking all user agents!
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Patrick Vikus 15 years ago

Participate in Yahoo questions and blogs with your keyword. Also join bing community to get good rank in both search engines.
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Gauravgupta7 15 years ago

That is happening because of every search engine has their own algorithm for determining the search results.

Google looks more into contents and can be ranked a trusted website. But who know about others ?
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zigato 15 years ago

Thanks for the replies so far. The website is about 3-4 years old, but for the past 2 years I actually haven't changed anything on the site until 2 months ago in terms of adding new content as well as meta tags due to other commitments that life brings!

Adding this new content and meta tags seems to be how I have improved my Google ranking and that singular Yahoo & Bing keyword ranking. Maybe they just needed a jolt to say that the website was still alive. :p

Justawizard - No, I haven't checked the robots.txt file... but I haven't done a nofollow on that so I don't think I'm blocking the agents? Plus I did see in my stats that I'm getting Yahoo Slurp and the MSN Live Bot thingy visiting my site.

I'll have a go with off-page and the my.yahoo.com and my.msn.com thing and see how I go on all of the major search engines. Thanks to everyone for the advice so far!

If anyone else has anything else that they would like to share, feel free to add it.
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sunia 15 years ago

the main thing matters is that you are in google soon you will be ranked automatically by yahoo and bing etc as all of them follow google ranking.......
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Clyde 15 years ago

Bing and Y! are usually slow but they follow Google's footsteps so you're all set.
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