How To Get Traffic From Yahoo And Other Search Engines?

Everton | May 25, 2007 | Comments


Even though Google is the most popular search engine with 55% market share in the US and 75% market share in the UK, I still can’t work out why I get next to no traffic from Yahoo and other search engines.

Over the last month according to Google Analytics my top 5 traffic sources have been Google 72%, Direct 8%, Yahoo 4%, StumbleUpon 2% and Search Organic 2% (anyone know what this is?).

I would love to work out why my Yahoo Traffic is 18x less than Google, and to find ways to increase this. Every now and then I get a Yahoo spike which takes my traffic up to 8-10%, but it never lasts. So far I’ve followed Tony’s advice and submitted my site to Yahoo News, which might help.

Does anyone have any other tips for increasing Yahoo traffic which have proven to be successful?


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Perhaps the following site might be of some help:
    http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1421/

    Myself I must say that I've never really gotten the hang of Yahoo, on my blog I rarely get any visitors through yahoo as well with just 3% of all visitors, whilst on a former site of mine and another I manage now it has always been around 20%.

    On my blog though, out of all little robots coming by on the other hand, Yahoos little pals are dropping in most frequently. Heck, can better say they're pretty much never leaving. So you'd say it should know about it, but guess they stuffed me somewhere totally in the back.
  • Thanks for the link - added it to the reading list.

    I've noticed the same with Yahoo's Robots - they are constantly crawling my site, so you'd expect some results to appear. I think what is probably happening is that Yahoo don't apply the same weighting to blogs as Google do. I guess Google have a vested interest in sending traffic to blogs, as probably 70% of blogs feature Google Adsense ads.
  • I get most visit from Google and only a little from Yahoo. And I use Google services because I think that them cold give me a bettere optimization.
  • I guess Google have a vested interest in sending traffic to blogs, as probably 70% of blogs feature Google Adsense ads.


    Yeah, they'be bought Blogger. Wordpress is next, then Drupal, then Typepad.....
  • My website also do not have any traffic from yahoo and I am getting 99% traffic from google only. I have submitted my website in site explorer properly, still it does not shows. Can any one give the reason.

    http://indiapatents.blogspot.com
  • I have the same problem. For every 100 visitors I get from Google, I'll get maybe one from Yahoo! or MSN. I cannot for the live of me figure this out.
  • We have the same problem, though I think the majority of the 'problem' is that Google probably accounts for 80% or more of (my target) searches anyway!

    Anyway for anyone else that this helps, I recently found that my .com site carries far less (if any) weight in Yahoo and MSN UK than it does in Google.co.uk (where 90% of my traffic comes from)

    Why? Because Google uses the domain extension PLUS IP location (in my case, UK) and so rates me in the UK based searches whereas the other engines only use the domain extension.

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  • Hi! My experience for getting traffic from Yahoo! is that you have to be extremely patient - wait about 6 weeks and the traffic should start pouring in. Unlike Google Yahoo! seems to put more emphasis on on-page SEO rather than inbound links. Same goes for MSN. Thanks, David
    .-= David´s last blog ..Best Search Engine Optimization SEO Software Tool =-.
  • buyessay
    oh well Y loves MONEY

    you can try to submit your site in search for 50 bucks. sure Y will reindex it more often and rank it by relevance.
    I wonder if it rank by relevance for money, how it rank when you not pay?
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