Google vs. Yahoo
My traffic currently is split about evenly between Google and Yahoo (both bringing about 40%). The way they bring traffic is totally different. The Yahoo traffic is directed whereas Google’s traffic is much more random. Let me elaborate.
I track both the artist pages and the total site pages (they are mostly individual track pages) that are indexed by both engines. Here is today’s report:
- Google: 2,130 artist pages out of 89,900 total
- Yahoo: 457 artist pages out of 2,852 total
As you can see Google has indexed 30 times more pages than Yahoo ! It is easy to see that also from the logs - Google’s Bot is extremely aggressive - it spiders the site all day - last week it hit 20,000 pages in one day. Yahoo Slurps at a more casual rate - a few hundred to a thousand pages - dependent on its mood ;-).
One would think that Google would dominate the traffic, but this is not the case. Here are a few keyword hits from both engines:
Yahoo:
list of 50 cent songs
celine dion list of songs
list of ray charles song
list of eric clapton songs
list of jay z songs
lil jon songs
Google:
www.song play.com
theclarksisters
HECTOR LAVOE.COM
morcheeba songlist
“soft by boney james”
le notti di cabiria rota listen
“song of delilah”
THEHAPPYGOODMAN
Songlist Farewell Angelina
cunla song wikipedia
lil boosie distant lover
The Yahoo traffic comes primarily from searchers that are looking for song lists and the site ranks well for these searches as I would hope. Google’s traffic is coming from particular word combinations that match certain pages very well even if they are hidden in the supplemental index. I hope that the main artist pages will get indexed in the main index and ranked reasonably so I will get the same kind of hits from Google that I am getting from Yahoo. I am sure many people are searching for ” [artist name] song list”, but the site does not pop up in the first few pages.
