Major drop on Yahoo

#1

Is there any major change happening on yahoo ?

I have lost ranks for all the keyword on yahoo from yesterday

from 8th to 40th ... like this

Has anyone experienced the same ?

#2

On 4 Jul 2006 23:12:53 -0700, cordial_camaraderie <cordial_camaraderie (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

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Is there any major change happening on yahoo ?

I have lost ranks for all the keyword on yahoo from yesterday

from 8th to 40th ... like this

Has anyone experienced the same ?

I would never bother enough to even check.

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Ignoramus1869 wrote:

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I would never bother enough to even check.

Why not? After a major Google drop off Y! is actually picking up the slack
and is responsible for ~45% of my traffic now. If you have not checked
your Y! stats lately, you might want to do it now. You could see some nice
surprises there!

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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:09:37 GMT, www.1-script.com <info_at_1-script_dot_com (AT) foo (DOT) com> wrote:

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Ignoramus1869 wrote:

I would never bother enough to even check.

Why not? After a major Google drop off Y! is actually picking up the slack
and is responsible for ~45% of my traffic now. If you have not checked
your Y! stats lately, you might want to do it now. You could see some nice
surprises there!

Since midnight, I had 5 visits to algebra.com referred by Yahoo, and
1,292 by Google. (unless I miscounted something)

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Since midnight, I had 5 visits to algebra.com referred by Yahoo, and
1,292 by Google. (unless I miscounted something)

Conclusions? 99% of People who are interested in Algebra prefer google.

Having said that, the only person I know who uses Yahoo is my older sister.

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:32:40 +0100, Robinson <itoldyounottospamme (AT) nowmyinboxisfull (DOT) com> wrote:

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Since midnight, I had 5 visits to algebra.com referred by Yahoo, and
1,292 by Google. (unless I miscounted something)

Conclusions? 99% of People who are interested in Algebra prefer google.

Having said that, the only person I know who uses Yahoo is my older sister.

Yes, I get rather little traffic from Yahoo. I m,ostly agree with
you.

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Robinson wrote:

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Having said that, the only person I know who uses Yahoo is my older
sister.

And you think your older sister alone makes it a #1 visited site in the
world?
It is true that it may not be a good fit for particular categories, but in
general Yahoo! is still very important. It actually becomes more important
every day, at least on my sites.
Another thing to consider is: my own conversions are about 10 times better
for traffic that came from Y! than from G. I don't sell enough products
online to make any general conclusions but it may be true that a visitor
from Y! is 10 more important than a visitor from G if you look at it from
ROI stand point.

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Why not? After a major Google drop off Y! is actually picking up the slack
and is responsible for ~45% of my traffic now. If you have not checked
your Y! stats lately, you might want to do it now. You could see some nice
surprises there!

I had an obsessive Google focus until recently. But - as I've posted
elsewhere - after I put up Google sitemaps crawling almost stopped and
Google's cached version of one of my is utterly obsolete.

So I reverted to general SEO rather than pandering to Google's foibles.
Yahoo and MSN together now exceed my Google traffic, and I too suspect
that Yahoo visitors view more pages than Google visitors.

Among other things, for instance - Yahoo still uses the keyword
metatag. Which can sometimes be handy.

#9

cordial_camaraderie wrote:

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Is there any major change happening on yahoo ?

I have lost ranks for all the keyword on yahoo from yesterday

from 8th to 40th ... like this

Has anyone experienced the same ?

Yes ive experienced the same i was page 1 for "jewellery" now im 52nd -
i get approx 30% eaqual share of hits from google, msn and yahoo

mark
www.iosilver.co.uk

#10

On 6 Jul 2006 02:34:15 -0700, "Phil Payne" <phil (AT) isham-research (DOT) co.uk>
wrote:

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Why not? After a major Google drop off Y! is actually picking up the slack
and is responsible for ~45% of my traffic now. If you have not checked
your Y! stats lately, you might want to do it now. You could see some nice
surprises there!

I had an obsessive Google focus until recently. But - as I've posted
elsewhere - after I put up Google sitemaps crawling almost stopped and
Google's cached version of one of my is utterly obsolete.

Do you update and resubmit your sitemaps? Do you advise that your
pages change often or not at all?

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