Search Engine Result Pages - Yahoo YPN and Google Adsense/Adwords Competetion

websiteideas · 04-12-2006, 12:05 PM

Would Yahoo discount a website in their SERPS when it sees that there is an adsense ad on it? It would seem that it would be in their interest to do so, would it not?

**GuyFromChicago** · 04-12-2006, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by websiteideas

Would Yahoo discount a website in their SERPS when it sees that there is an adsense ad on it? It would seem that it would be in their interest to do so, would it not?

I suppose they could but they don't. A lot of really, really good sites have AdSense. If Yahoo filtered sites based on the presense of AdSense their serps would be total crap.

WorldwideTrading · 04-12-2006, 12:12 PM

or perhaps it would be a good way to avoid the spammed by google websites.

**GuyFromChicago** · 04-12-2006, 02:16 PM

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or perhaps it would be a good way to avoid the spammed by google websites.

Perhaps, but they're not doing it and I can't see any reason they would. Destroy the integrity of their serp just to spite a competitor? Nah. Doesn't make sense financially.

Ashish · 04-12-2006, 09:37 PM

yahoo's share of the search market is not very big, if they start doing something like this then pretty soon people will catch on and they will be worse off then they are now... so no.. i dont think yahoo will ever think of pulling something like that.

websiteideas · 06-09-2006, 03:26 PM

I know it would probably make webmasters upset, but that's just the nature of the highly competetive world we live in. Anyone have conclusive evidence that proves whether or not this is something Google or Yahoo does to try and compete with each other?

**GuyFromChicago** · 06-12-2006, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by websiteideas

Anyone have conclusive evidence that proves whether or not this is something Google or Yahoo does to try and compete with each other?

Just look at Yahoo's serps. If they are trying to filer sites with AdSense on them they are doing a piss poor job.

Webfu · 06-12-2006, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by websiteideas

Would Yahoo discount a website in their SERPS when it sees that there is an adsense ad on it? It would seem that it would be in their interest to do so, would it not?

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I've got 2 examples of Yahoo not liking Adsense users. My clients that used 2 be number #1 in Yahoo for " snowboarding " and another for " Vacation Rentals. "

They are still number #1 in Google for both high profile words.

Last year after they inserted Adsense into their websites they vanished from the Yahoo serps....

I can honestly say the same thing happened to me with this website: www.aminotherapy.ws

- I used to get killer traffic in Yahoo before I inserted the Adsense. What I saw happen is basically this: I went from $3.00 a day to $20.00 a day.... while still ranked well in Yahoo. Sweet, so for about a month it stayed solid and I was getting a lot of Yahoo traffic at that time, and making about $20.00 a day. The following month { APRIL 2006 }I went back down to $3.00 a day... { During that time I made ZERO content changes } So I checked my Hitslink reports and found that my Yahoo traffic is almost non existant. Then I did some manual searches in Yahoo for the normal terms I used to do good with and my site is gone from Yahoo! It's still indexed there, all 1060 pages of it. But its as if I've been banished from higher profile words from Yahoos Serps.

The Google traffic is still there, and fortunately I get a bit from MSN as well.

Any thoughts on that ?

**GuyFromChicago** · 06-16-2006, 01:11 PM

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I've got 2 examples of Yahoo not liking Adsense users. My clients that used 2 be number #1 in Yahoo for " snowboarding " and another for " Vacation Rentals. "

Two examples out of billions is statistically insignificant. I've had sites drop from Yahoo when it's sunny outside but the weather isn't the reason they dropped

Webfu · 06-16-2006, 06:00 PM

Sure,,, its actually 3 examples but I see what your saying Guy.

I'm also thinking Yahoo doesn't want Google making money from it's SERPS. Therefore eliminating websites {that use adsense} that come up in the higher profile search terms....

If I was cool enough to be Yahoo I wouldn't want to see Google ads dominating my serps. I'd probably find a way to single out websites here and there that get a lot traffic from my search engine, only to be displaying their customers my competitors ads. Yahoo vs' Google

Either that or start my own version of Adsense. If I was Yahoo I would prolly do both....