Optimize your WordPress Blog for Yahoo and MSN
We live in frightening times. The average blog gets 80-90% of its organic search traffic from Google - and there are enough horror stories about being suddenly dropped from the results, to be left hanging and hoping…
So why not boost your traffic by paying attention to other search engines and their results?
There’s actually not much point. Basically, what works for Google will work fine for Yahoo and MSN, and the time and effort could probably be spent more profitably on other things.
Historically, it is felt that Yahoo has a greater tolerance of keyword stuffing - 10% density has been mentioned as the problem threshold, as opposed to about 5% for Google. Also, as of today, Yahoo is the only major search engine to take any notice of meta tags for ranking purposes - Google takes notice of them, but only in producing a digest for the SERPS
MSN/Live search is in a bit of a mess at the moment - certainly I’ve noticed that while blog site traffic is largely unaffected, at around 10%, conventional websites that used to get about 15% of traffic from MSN, often, not always, now get only 3-5%
Any other suggestions…?
