Diferences between yahoo.com and yahoo.es

[pacop]

Hi,

I have been looking around for a year or so and i would like to give you many thanks for all the piece of information and the knowledge that i have got now.

This is my very first post in a seo forum and also english is not my lenguage so forgive my english, it is a little bit rusty.

i have realized that yahoo.es an yahoo.com do not show the same SERPS nor the link command, at least for my web.

It is a mather of time or it is something different?

do you know something about that?

Thank you for everything

Pacoc

[danny boy]

hey, paco, i have wondered the same question for a time and id like to know what people here can say about that...

by the way, where are you coming from exactly in spain? i am malagueño and i live in malaga... and you?

[awall19]

most large scale search engines may boost the rankings of local sites in local searches. in addition they may filter out sites that they do not think are local based on hosting location, domain extension and the like.

[dcristo]

Originally Posted by awall19

most large scale search engines may boost the rankings of local sites in local searches. in addition they may filter out sites that they do not think are local based on hosting location, domain extension and the like.

Interesting you say that. So if I were to get a .com.au domain for an australian website to target my local market, yet the actual website was hosted in the US, this could effect search engine rankings in google.com.au ?

[pacop]

"most large scale search engines may boost the rankings of local sites in local searches. in addition they may filter out sites that they do not think are local based on hosting location, domain extension and the like."

That is pretty logicall for me, but for my situation is on the contrary, the results are better for .com than for .es

That is why i thought it has to be a mather of time or a mather of datacenters.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by dcristo

Interesting you say that. So if I were to get a .com.au domain for an australian website to target my local market, yet the actual website was hosted in the US, this could effect search engine rankings in google.com.au ?

it certainly could in some engines.

keep in mind that they also read links and can likely determine a regional specific type topic if it is well engrained into the local community of site, for example if many sites like aunic (or whatever its called) link to your site

having your address on the page can also help them out too from what I have been told.

also if you are in an area where the local search engines are super sketchy and the web is not built up strongly yet (like Africa) many people will likely search with the country or town in the search query

[I, Brian]

Is it possible that some local Yahoo portals are still using Google results?? Yahoo.co.uk was still using them for a while after the changeover on Yahoo.com. Is Yahoo still playing catch-up??

[awall19]

Yahoo officially lauched Yahoo! Search on their 25th of 25 properties in the middle of last month
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/...read.php?t=660

[pacop]

Hi Brian,

At least for my particular situation yahoo is not showing google results, i wish it did..

I have observed also differences in the number of pages cached.

The SERPs are quite different for my keywords