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By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:16:06 +0000

The traffic I get from Google and Yahoo have always been about equal and I have not seen any significant difference. For some reason I get more traffic from MSN.

As for crawling Google and Yahoo are similar but MSN crawls 3x less.

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By: Joyce Babu

Joyce Babu — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:39:36 +0000

I almost never use Yahoo for searching. But I have seen discussions on several forums that the new suggestion feature of Yahoo! search is very good.

By: Hock

Hock — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:16:21 +0000

For some reason, if I search for my domain name minus the .com part i.e. “marketing tools review” I’m ranked on the first page on Google and MSN but nowhere to be found on Yahoo.

Looking at my web stats, I see Google and MSN spidering my site a lot more than Yahoo (about 6x less than the other two). I don’t see any significant traffic from Yahoo at all.

By: Alpesh Nakar

Alpesh Nakar — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:49:21 +0000

Good point you have raised here. I have seen Yahoo popping up quite often in my stats. Good one!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:35:39 +0000

My Yahoo traffic is up slightly and the domain still ranks in the top 5 as a traffic referral…

1. StumbleUpon
2. Google
3. Problogger (Whaaaaaa…..)
4. Yahoo
5. Twitter

So yeah, I think that’s fair.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:25:10 +0000

Yahoo has been loving some of my sites lately too. It’s fun. Got some really great keywords and the traffic is wonderful.

But then my philosophy has always been to enjoy whichever search engine is giving me the traffic. Sure hasn’t been Google of late.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:31:56 +0000

Helene – that’s fascinating that MSN is tops. Interestingly, I get a good MSN showing at my personal blog in which I write, ironically enough, about the near-divorce I experienced with my husband.

I wonder if MSN has more female users or if there is some other reason that personal stuff does well on their search engine?

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:54:49 +0000

Yep, I’m getting a few more hits from Yahoo as well. Google actually started sending me a lot of traffic a few weeks back but then it sort of stopped. I have no idea what’s going on. I just know many changes are happening.

By: Helene

Helene — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:32:24 +0000

My yahoo numbers jumped in October by about 60%.

My number one search engine is and always has been, MSN, which produces approximately four times as much traffic as Yahoo.

By: Malcolm Bradley

Malcolm Bradley — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:39:56 +0000

I have had sites launched for a few months and left them to see which engine found them first. Every time without exception it was Google. I had to ‘do’ something to get Yahoo’s Slurp to even bother trying to find them!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:25:25 +0000

Thank you! Now I need to figure out how to make Rice Krispie Turkeys!

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:53:37 +0000

Melissa, if you don’t have Google Analytics, you need to check whatever stats package you use, and drill down into the sites that refer traffic to you to find Yahoo. Hopefully your stats package will show a graph to display trends over time, and then you can see how much Yahoo has sent in the past and how much it is sending you in the last couple of weeks.

Bill, the only way I can explain your traffic spike from Yahoo is that they likely ran a new story about some successful person, and then gave their readers a link to a search for more info on “Characteristics of Successful People”.

If only I could be so lucky with a feature on mom bloggers making money, eh?!

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:49:53 +0000

“…that engine-who-shall-not-be-named.”

That MADE my day! Hysterical!!!

By: Bill Perry

Bill Perry — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:31:27 +0000

Melissa– The easiest way I know of is Google Analytics, especially since they’ve updated their interface, it’s now a LOT more intuitive than the “classic” interface, even though it took me WEEKS after they switched to fall in love with it. I’m hard to change on things like that.

Wendy– I also got a HUGE (for my blog) spike on October 30th, to the tune of 186 Yahoo hits, all for the term “Characteristics of Successful People”.

By: LT assistant

LT assistant — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:08:43 +0000

Our traffic is up significantly as well in Yahoo lately, well over 150%. It looks like they finally found us!

It would really be nice to have another search engine for strong referrals other than that engine-who-shall-not-be-named.

By: Melissa Garrett

Melissa Garrett — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:53:25 +0000

Okay, this comment may very well advertise my lack of knowledge, but how do you check stats with Yahoo?