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I know Bob that Google doesn't rank like Yahoo. I disagree with you that Yahoo focus more on contents than Google, if you check Yahoo you will find a lot of spam sites ranking #1 with no contents.

Perhaps it is easier to get listed on Yahoo, I mean this is the #2 search engine on internet. I like Yahoo but it doesn't bring the quantity of Google visitors or customers. Their search results are pretty stable compared to Google and I am sure there is a reason for that.

I don't think there is either a fake or reel traffic, it is just traffic. I don't believe there is more buyers from Yahoo than Google, I will say Google bring me more customers than Yahoo. It depends if you are listed on Yahoo shopping, it really doesn't matter for me, customers are come from Google, Yahoo and MSN.

I am sure there is a loyal Yahoo underbase, they were the most popular search engine 10 years ago, and I see they are in better shape recently.

Hello Bob,

If Britney Spears is number 1 on Google for 6 years that's good for her.

As you may know it is very difficult to make your own site and rank well on all search engines, because they have their own algorithms which mean the results will be different.

For example you can have some very nice contents, nice products and quality backlinks but if the search engines detect that you have poor traffic or none, your site will not rank well.

So traffic is pretty important and can help you to be on top ten. Now it is the job of the site owner to convert visitors into customers, depending of your abilities or budget.

You can see by yourself on Yahoo, sites like become, nextag, drugstore, etc... are marketing sites ranking number 1, are they quality sites? Do you think their contents are top quality? I don't think so, but they are number 1 on a bunch of keywords.

If you want my opinion they are nothing more than link farms/paid links.

Web, it doesn't bother me that Google owns 80% of the market. They are very good and smart to be the number 1 search engine.

Now for small business owners like me, it is critical to rank high for our 200 pages or so, otherwise we don't sell at all.

After more than 3 years running our e-commerce I am pretty good at SEO, but I am not a Guru. The difficult part is not optimization, it is to know the potential of your site.

I can optimize my e-commerce for a hyper competitive keyword like skin care for example, do you really think my site is capable of ranking in the top 10?
No, I don't want my site ranking on page number 50. What I am trying to say is that you must know what your site can accomplish, and how the search engines categorize your site with their algos, which is not necessarily what you want it to be categorized. You can always try to favor what you want your site to be, you will never know what the results will be on the search engine targeted.

Customers come most of the time from search engines such as Google, yahoo, MSN. There is no secret that without search engines it would be difficult to sell on internet.