Yahoo Rankings

ericbramlett · #**11 Re: Yahoo Rankings** 03-02-2007, 09:28 PM

We had this same discussion a couple of weeks ago, and Morgan summed it up pretty well:

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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.

Dallas Broker · #**12 Re: Yahoo Rankings** 03-03-2007, 01:17 AM

yahoo is definetely all over the place, all of my pages seem to be stable for dallas real estate related keywords. Most pages are in top 10 for my keywords except for the one I focus my efforts on daily (dallas real estate), which has been in 10-18 range for past 6 months. I agree there is no logic to yahoo's ranking system

Memphis · #**13 Re: Yahoo Rankings** 03-03-2007, 09:05 AM

Don't know if this applies to most or not; but my solid leads come from Google, then MSN then Yahoo with the least.

Last week:

Google - 37.52%
MSN - 15.13 %
Yahoo - 6.2 %

The kicker is, I rank really well in Y, and not so well in "G" for the major KW's (but am starting to kick azz in a whole lot of long tails

). I think it just shows that those that have said "don't waste your time with Yahoo" are correct.

Concentrate on "G" and let the cookies crumble where they may on the others. You will eventually start going up on them, but then you won't care because 80% of your business will come from "G". JMHO, not fact

seoai · #**14 Re: Yahoo Rankings** 03-04-2007, 03:42 PM

I am really beginning to think that Yahoo continually rotates links for certain keywords. I have some that seem to be stable, but others, no matter what I do, continue to go from first page to 5th page to 2nd page to first page, then disappear and so on.