How To Get Traffic From Yahoo And Other Search Engines?

May 25th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Everton • The Team • Tools & Tips

Tags: blog, Blogging Tips, Google, OneTipADay, Projects, Search Engines, SEO, StumbleUpon, UK, Yahoo!

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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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, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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   Comment by Psycho Dude on 25 May 2007:

   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.
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   Comment by Everton on 25 May 2007:

   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.
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   Comment by Ceglie Messapica on 30 May 2007:

   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.
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   Comment by listikal on 2 June 2007:

   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…..

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