Yahoo traffic or Google traffic?

Hello,

Is Yahoo traffic better than Google traffic?

Define traffic - do you mean the spider or actual real life visitors?

Originally Posted by Sam Granger Define traffic

Additionally, please define "better", as well.

It's all people*. Yahoo has never brought me enough traffic to really care about the visitors coming from there any more than I would care for anyone else coming from anywhere else.

* mostly

Most of people use Google to search for what they need. Despite there are so many SEs, Google is still at its position as a King. So driving traffic from Google surely better than from Yahoo.

I think that traffic is traffic, doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as it keeps coming.
Ranking, nevertheless, is a completely different thing. Just like mybizz said in the post above, google is the most popular and, in my opinion, the best search engine out there, so the ranking in google result pages is probably the most important ranking to focus on.
As traffic is concerned, the more the better...

Originally Posted by lstmin I think that traffic is traffic, doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as it keeps coming. As traffic is concerned, the more the better...

I don't quite agree. Of course if your an internet marketer, from "where" traffics come from is important. Traffics from some autosurf programs are still traffics. Bought traffics from some shady companies in india are still traffic. But they make a difference in conversions. If the only monetization method on your website is cpm ads, and this cpm ads don't only target countries like US and UK, then it won't matter from where your traffics come from, like you said "the more the better". But if you were looking for sale conversions, leads, then from where your traffics come from DOES matter, because it's not just "traffics" your looking for, it's traffics that "convert". Else, it's waste of bandwidth, and bandwidth isn't cheap. As for google OR yahoo, they're both search engines and search engines traffics are always good (given you have the right keywords targeted).

hi
there is a good discussion in this article http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-for...yahoo-msn.html

If we talk about traffic only traffic is important from where it is coming it is not important.

The main reason is that Google has a great market share. Also google has many search engine versions depending the language/country. If your blog posts are in not in english and they have a geographical targeting this could also be a good reason. Yahoo and Bing is almost dead meat. There's no point in focusing on these 2 search engines that only favours keywords inside domains when deciding the keyword rankings.