If it is any indication, my stats for my e-commerce site indicate that the most visitors came from MSN then Google, (then Traffic Swarm actually) and finally Yahoo. So can one conclude that the MSN algorithm returns results that are more accurate for a give keyword? Perhaps the Google algorithm is smarter than Yahoo’s but not smarter than MSN.
The e-commerce site was always appearing near the top in both Google and Yahoo for a couple years for a given keyword. However, when I started using Google Adwords it stopped appearing near the top of the results, not so when I tried Yahoo/Overture sponsored search, it was still listed near the top, aside from the benefit of running on the network partners, does it make sense to pay to advertise a site that already appears near the top of the search results anyway?
So I dumped the Yahoo/Overture sponsored search when my inital deposit was exausted. So does this mean that the Google algorithm is smarter?
This has nothing to so with the e-commerce site but another test is when I search on the keyword phrase video slot tips or video slot machine tips in Yahoo, Google and MSN. In Yahoo 6 out of the first 10 results are for a site that redirects to the same site. So does Yahoo consider a sites’ content when returning results?
Although it’s been a long time since I last checked, my slot tips site always came up at or near the top for those keyword/phrases in Yahoo, until this hacker did this little redirect trick.
Can someone try those phrases in Yahoo and see if they get the same results and post or let me know? (you should see several pages titled Video Slot Machine Tips)
It would be greatly appreciated.