i never knew that but it makes sense! i wonder how many people will even go past the first row of results.
I'd say you're pretty much doomed in a one spot world like that. You are either the number one optimized spot for the placement or you don't get any traffic. Yahoo isn't very committed to free search if you ask me ;)
It almost limits it to sponsored ads only. I did a search for some lesser terms, and it had free listings. So maybe it also has to do with the popularity of the search term. If there are many competitors, top spots are placed by paid advertisements. If the word doesn't get searched often, and there aren't folks paying, it comes up free.
They were promoting a search today. You search for "Chicago Hotels". You see listings from Yahoo Travel! with star ratings first. Then you see sponsors and Overture adds. There are no free listings above the fold at all! NONE!
I hate this commercial bull on all the engines now. if you had a good non profit search engine it would clean up.
I don't think there can be such a thing. Someone has to pay for servers, bandwidth etc. I think internet access providers (like net zero) tried this back in the 90's and it didn't work out. Someone has to pay for time, resources etc. The internet has never been free, and I don't think it ever will be..
Yea but there is commercial and over commercial.
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They intersperse the search results with the paid also. I think we may start seeing Google doing that soon, to increase PPC revenue.
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a lot of people want organic results. i think they cant really remove them all.
Im in position 2&3 for my targeted phrases in yahoo though. and they send me a fair bit of traffic.
for sure. people will drill all the way down a results page if they're really looking for something. yahoo is a huge factor on the internet. but google still has more and better traffic.
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