Google VS Yahoo

freetraff · 09-15-2005, 04:35 AM

A few years ago no one would like to talk about traffic with Yahoo, only Google. Yahoo seemed to be out of the game.

Now Yahoo is coming back. And I personally met many disputes about Google and Yahoo and their traffic. They say Yahoo is better when you are looking for the people keen on music, video, games, fan clubs, posters and other showbiz/amusement staff. Google is said to give targeted traffic made of the people who look for some 'serious' things in the Internet.

I am promoting Internet marketing tool and already made some things for Google. Should I try doing something huge for Yahoo, or the Yahoo traffic wouldn't work with Internet marketing tool?

Thanks for your tips, links, and personal info.

**John Scott** · 11-10-2005, 04:31 PM

One of my clients tells me that they get a lot of traffic from Yahoo, but it's the Google traffic that converts. Weird. I would have thought it the other way around.

His site is www.plasmaconnection.com

Buskerdoo · 11-10-2005, 10:02 PM

My CD supplies site gets plenty of traffic from Yahoo, but equivalently ranked terms seem to convert more in Google. Same goes for a motorcycle site I've worked on.

longcall911 · 11-14-2005, 08:21 PM

For me, G provides 3 times the traffic that Y does. So, to get the same number of conversions, Y would have to convert at 3 times G's rate.

That's not even close to happening.

And don't forget that AOL search is Google. Lot's of AOLers are searching for music, videos, games, fan clubs etc....

/*tom*/