Strong Movement in Google, Nothing in Yahoo

[ericbramlett]

I started my SEO journey in November & the techniques I've picked up from this board have really sent me on my way w/ Google. I'm seeing great movement for some less competitive terms for www.onesourcemetro.com & I'm starting to gain ground on the big terms for www.ericbramlett.com. However...I'm seeing nothing in Yahoo!

I've focused on directory submissions, article writing, & link swapping. I've gotten a lot of really good IBL's from my articles. I've optimized my metas & my content.

So...Google's starting to warm up to me, & Yahoo's giving me the cold shoulder. Everything I've read indicates that I should get love the other way around.

Am I missing anything obvious?

[ColoradoHomeHelper]

I started my SEO journey in November & the techniques I've picked up from this board have really sent me on my way w/ Google. I'm seeing great movement for some less competitive terms for www.onesourcemetro.com & I'm starting to gain ground on the big terms for www.ericbramlett.com. However...I'm seeing nothing in Yahoo!

I've focused on directory submissions, article writing, & link swapping. I've gotten a lot of really good IBL's from my articles. I've optimized my metas & my content.

So...Google's starting to warm up to me, & Yahoo's giving me the cold shoulder. Everything I've read indicates that I should get love the other way around.

Am I missing anything obvious?

Im in the exact same boat as you Eric..I dont get one single visitor from yahoo!

[ericbramlett]

No Yahoo Love!!!! I guess it could be worse... I still don't understand, though - I know there are plenty of prospects that use Y as their primary search engine.

[Calum]

I have the exact opposite...we started around the November/December and all of our traffic is coming from Yahoo and MSN and none from Google.

[Micheal Pannell Realtor]

i get alot from msn and yahoo and a very little from google

[FindCRE]

Eric,

Your in Luck! The large majority of traffic comes for Google. So if your not getting a lot of love, at least its from the ugly sister anyways.

[webmaster]

Yahoo has been very inconsistent over the last year - with MSN and Google there is a clear strategy (Or several potential strategies) that will encourage movement, but for yahoo, they have just been all over the map.

A perfect example of this: An aquaintance of mine threw up this page as a placeholder for a future condos site http://www.scottsdalearizonacondominiums.com - It's a piece of garbage, spammy text, no legitimate links and certainly none in volume, no directories etc and its on the first page for scottsdale condos - It is a very frustrating proposition especially for SEO's as without clear direction, we cannot afford to play around with our sites that rank highly in Google / MSN just to hope to fluke on yah00 - If anyone knows more than I on this, I would love to hear some (Data driven) strategy.

[Micheal Pannell Realtor]

mine are moving up on yahoo but it is just from doing stuff i hear done here. It also seem to help by updating your site map on explorer

[judyo]

My sites that have good Yahoo ranking still don't pull much traffic from it. In fact, when I'm searching myself Yahoo has given me such awful results that I don't even use it anymore. Of course, I normally use Google but I also use MSN. The last time I tried searching in Yahoo the results were laughable & I said, "That's it, never again!"

[Fort Lauderdale]

I think whatever works for google ranking kills you in yahoo. I used to rank well in yahoo and nothing on google. Now I rank well in google and nowhere in yahoo even after joining the directory. I'd much rather rank with google!
John