Google Good / Yahoo Bad

jay88 · 08-16-2005, 06:48 AM

I have had a site for 1 year and since its inception, its has always done better in Google than in Yahoo (relativley speaking).

Now it's a gigantic daily difference. I get 90% of my traffic from Google and about .01% from Yahoo each day.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get things a bit more even? What could I be doing that is regarded as good by Google (thus giving me lots of traffic) and so bad by Yahoo?

Murtaza · 08-16-2005, 07:29 AM

which of the above two sites??

jay88 · 08-16-2005, 09:34 AM

the ticket site

Murtaza · 08-16-2005, 09:57 AM

hmm....sorry pal cant figure out y ur site not doin well with yahoo.
acc. to me yahoo pays more attn towards meta tags (keywords,desc etc).

sundancerz · 08-16-2005, 01:19 PM

Titles and descriptions along with content.
There's a few key ingredients for all search engines.
oh and inbound links.

jay88 · 08-16-2005, 02:20 PM

Thanks, but that doesn't really tell me a lot - I know that already. I guess what I am asking is, is there a difference between how you would create Titles and descriptions along with content different for Yahoo than Google?

Do you use different pages depending on the search engine you're targeting, or do you just do what would fit for all of them? either way, do you experience the same problems as me?

sundancerz · 09-08-2005, 05:58 PM

I use the same pages for google, yahoo and msn.

Web Gazelle · 09-09-2005, 11:39 AM

Your best bet is to just keep optimizing for Google and consider traffic from Yahoo and MSN as a bonus.

Buskerdoo · 09-09-2005, 09:57 PM

All things being equal as far as ranking etc. ur going to get a lot more traffic from google anyway.

With out see the site, it's hard to know the specifics.

Matrix · 09-10-2005, 06:26 AM

You are probably not doing that bad in yahoo, remember most people use g so its reasonable to predict a significant drop in referals from yahoo