Comments on: Yahoo & MSN rankings worth zip! Google is King! http://www.sydneyfx.com.au/wordpress/yahoo-msn-rankings-worth-zip-google-is-king/119 Ramblings of a Freelance Web Designer & Developer Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:46:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robert Mirabito http://www.sydneyfx.com.au/wordpress/yahoo-msn-rankings-worth-zip-google-is-king/119/comment-page-1#comment-7115 Robert Mirabito Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:30:15 +0000 http://www.sydneyfx.com.au/wordpress/?p=119#comment-7115 Hi Tim, nice to have you aboard so to speak :-) With any SEO work you find every site has it's own persona and tend to vary in the way they rank. Your site was in fact one of the very few new sites that ranked well in Google before the other search engines and considering it was a brand new site, new domain etc even I was a little surprised at the success we've had. In saying that, looking back at the earlier ranking checks we did on your site, Yahoo was showing rankings for other related keywords other than your domain name well before we got those rankings in Google. Using Yahoo & MSN as indicators for rankings is not cut & dry and isn't a hard and fast rule but it does provide some insight into where Google might rank you in their search results when your site does start ranking. Also I always try to work towards ranking in all the search engines because the techniques for SEO are the same. Every SEO has their own strategy for ranking and this is based on previous experience on getting rankings. Every site you do SEO for gives you a little more insight into how the search engines work and you start to see consistencies and patterns in what you do and get an idea of what might be giving you an edge. Even though Google dominates search results here in Australia, you never know when thing may change, plus it doesn't cost any more to rank in Yahoo & MSN so why not! Hi Tim, nice to have you aboard so to speak :-) With any SEO work you find every site has it’s own persona and tend to vary in the way they rank. Your site was in fact one of the very few new sites that ranked well in Google before the other search engines and considering it was a brand new site, new domain etc even I was a little surprised at the success we’ve had.

In saying that, looking back at the earlier ranking checks we did on your site, Yahoo was showing rankings for other related keywords other than your domain name well before we got those rankings in Google. Using Yahoo & MSN as indicators for rankings is not cut & dry and isn’t a hard and fast rule but it does provide some insight into where Google might rank you in their search results when your site does start ranking.

Also I always try to work towards ranking in all the search engines because the techniques for SEO are the same. Every SEO has their own strategy for ranking and this is based on previous experience on getting rankings. Every site you do SEO for gives you a little more insight into how the search engines work and you start to see consistencies and patterns in what you do and get an idea of what might be giving you an edge. Even though Google dominates search results here in Australia, you never know when thing may change, plus it doesn’t cost any more to rank in Yahoo & MSN so why not!

]]> By: Tim Johnston http://www.sydneyfx.com.au/wordpress/yahoo-msn-rankings-worth-zip-google-is-king/119/comment-page-1#comment-7112 Tim Johnston Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:56:02 +0000 http://www.sydneyfx.com.au/wordpress/?p=119#comment-7112 You mention that you use yahoo as an "indicator" of where a site may eventually be ranked in Google. That's interesting because since you have optimised my site, the google rankings have actually jumped before the Yahoo & MSN rankings! Is this because you tailor your optimisation specifically for Google? Cheers You mention that you use yahoo as an “indicator” of where a site may eventually be ranked in Google. That’s interesting because since you have optimised my site, the google rankings have actually jumped before the Yahoo & MSN rankings! Is this because you tailor your optimisation specifically for Google?

Cheers

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