Why Google tramples Yahoo - Make money blogging query
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This is why Google relevancy is and will be the metric for monetization for a long time. I did a quick search for the term “make money blogging” on both search engines. Google managed 100% of the returned links to be relevant. How well did Yahoo manage? All the results where on the spot, but out of the top ten results, 3 are (useless) links to social services (2 technorati links, one Netscape Propeller almost-empty category) with the rest being real resource sites.
You could argue that technorati is relevant, but it really isn’t. Yahoo feels that the top two spots both belong to technorati listings, while Google thinks that StevePavlina.com and ProBlogger.net deserver the top two spots. As far as I’m concerned (and anyone who would be looking for actual ways to make money blogging), Google’s results are correct, while Yahoo’s aren’t.
This is why, unless Google decides to scrap it or completely remove it’s public display, PageRank is here to stay. It might not be the metric that bloggers use to judge a page, but it is the metric that advertisers will use to value your site. It’s easily comparable, comes from the 800 pound gorilla of the internet, and in the end, that is what matters.