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Yahoo is generally easier to rank on for specific phrases that are fairly rare, fairly focused, and have fairly low search volume. B and C-list celeb names kind
by aristus 17y ago
Yahoo is generally easier to rank on for specific phrases that are fairly rare, fairly focused, and have fairly low search volume. B and C-list celeb names kind of sit in that sweet spot. Also specialized products.
Try searching "left-handed tomato peelers" on Google vs Yahoo: Yahoo's top results tend to be smaller niche stuff; Google has Amazon, BizRate and shopping.msn in the top 6.
All very interesting, but unfortunately the volume isn't really enough for a pure ad play.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI apologize for commenting so much, but there was a serious question here that I'm digging for an answer. When I go to Yahoo and enter "Allison Stokke", I get bupkis hits from my blog (which is fine with me!) -- even in the images -- but yet Webalizer says that 90% of the hits are coming from there. Any ideas? There is an SEO question at the bottom of this -- is there some other way to get hits from a search engine besides going to the page and looking at the results? It's outside of my depth. I was hoping somebody here would have the answer. I'll shut up now.
- aristus 17y agoYou can find the URLs they are coming from, which contains the specific phrase and page number by looking at the raw "referer" [sic] field in your logs. Also, if you are getting this report solely from webserver logs it might be a false positive. Cross-check against Analytics or other javascript-based counter to make sure it's not bots. Microsoft has been spamming people's logs with fake "search traffic" for years. Also, you have a handful of sites that are hotlinking to your images of this woman. It's possible that's passing PR. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Allison+Stokke%22+%2Bwhattofix http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Allison+Stokke%22+%2Bwha...