I had 75% of my search engine traffic to my article directory
from Google. Now 95% comes from Yahoo. The page rank dropped from PR3 to PR2 - would this be the cause of the sudden drop in google traffic - its only slowly picking up now.

im not sure about it but i was able to read an article that search engines also consider the stay which visitors had made within the site... but im not yet sure about it...

It's rubbish!

Common sense must tell you that a search engine CANNOT know how long someone stayed on a site!!

Originally Posted by chrishirst

It's rubbish!

Common sense must tell you that a search engine CANNOT know how long someone stayed on a site!!

After all Google is not God

You're relying too much on search engines for traffic...

you should be considering your users not just optimizing for a search engine...

Originally Posted by chrishirst

It's rubbish!

Common sense must tell you that a search engine CANNOT know how long someone stayed on a site!!

well actually is CAN when you use stuff like google analytics...

So Google are going to base their SERPs for billionsof pages on what amounts to a minute proportion of pages that are using Google Analytics.

Please, I mentioned common sense at least use some!!!!

Analytics is a part of Google "The Company", not Google "The Search Engine".

I don't think Sammy P meant that Google was checking how long people stayed on a site - just that it was somewhat feasible that Google could check the sites that use Analytics for that measure.

So good point.

Is it possible yahoo taffic increased and google didn't decrease?

Sounds feasible - are you talking percentages or actual visitor counts?