Yahoo and MSN SERPS are absolute Trash – All Time Low

I agree it is pretty disheartening when you put alot of time into a page and think it has quality information. Then when you finally get the page listed it is no where to be seen and the other pages that are ahead of it are redirects or banner farms…

I’ve found that even top positions on Yahoo for some good gambling terms bings in little traffic. Is yahoo losing ground?

Seems to me that MSN has more traffic to give lately.

But at least they have variety for surfers – google dishes up the same old sites over and over for gambling phrases.

Also, it looks like MSN has gotten some control over all that subdomain crap.

I get the best visitors from MSN and have for awhile.

Google plain sucks at the moment for Casino sites (all spam)

Yahoo is a VERY close second to Google in that respect.

I don’t know what it is, but I don’t get it. I am #1 for what I consider to be some pretty big keyword phrases in MSN, but I don’t get ANY traffic from them. I actually thought there must be a glitch somewhere. I am #1 for about 25 keyword phrases that, when they were #1 in Google, would have netted me hundreds of clicks per month. Last month I got ONE click from MSN, according the stats on my cPanel. How is this possible?

Like Fergie, I’m finding more MSN traffic than Yahoo these days – my rankings are comparable in both engines, so yeah, I think Yahoo is losing ground.

While, in the keywords I target at least, the Yahoo SERPs are OK, I have to agree with the Professor that for a high percentage of casino/gambling phrases, the results are crap.

Not only crap, but seemingly random crap. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason why one site is top ten and another is #1000 or whatever.

yahoo and msn are more easily gamed than google. so, in general you will find a lot more sites with blog backlinks and sitewide link buys listed in yahoo and msn than you will google. this is only generally speaking of course. google allows its fair share of spam in their serps too (just look at some of the pages now). the difference is that google will get rid of most of those spam pages in time while yahoo and msn will likely keep them ranking.

sulky, they aren’t Mac terms on a Microsoft search engine, are they?

i’m not sure. thought i remembered your site, and it seemed like a mis-match.

i don’t really know the mac mindset, but i imagine, given a choice, a mac user would use any thing but a microsoft product. search engines included.

could be wrong though, just a theory.