How important is anchor text in Yahoo SEO?

[WebBrutus]

I have first page rankings in MSN, but very little good rankings in yahoo. Is MSN and Yahoo very much different?

[gdi]

yeah, they use different alogaritms to for indexing and ranking

[allout]

All three Google , Yahoo, and MSN are different in their algorithms. However, all seem to focus on anchor text and keywords. I have topped MSN many more times than the other two which leads me to think that is the least complicated.

[Gallito]

Yahoo is very easy to optimize for as they put such heavy emphasis on anchor texts, I typically try to optimize for Yahoo before Google.

[ROOFIS]

All three Google , Yahoo, and MSN are different in their algorithms. However, all seem to focus on anchor text and keywords. I have topped MSN many more times than the other two which leads me to think that is the least complicated.

I agree with allout. MSN's algorithms seem to be the least complex and
place a lot of importance on generic text. As an example search for the
term 'online casino' and you end up with a lot of sites like onlinecasino.com
or online-casino.com etc appearing in their first page results. If the title
of your site matches your url name then you have a pretty good chance
of getting to page one for that term. :cool:

[ASPMachine]

Anchor text helps search engines to identify of a website and particular page category because we use keywords that related with our site as an anchor text and so search engine analyzes all the anchor texts of a website and can easily determine what's the actual category of a website.

[Ry4n]

Focus on Google, it's the most used search engine.

[rypher21]

anchor text matters not only in Yahoo SEO but to other SE's...although they have different algorithm and ways of indexing sites, they have some similarities also like using anchor text....

[GoGlobal]

Focus on Google, it's the most used search engine.

I know Google,Yahoo & MSN is the nice search engine but most of webmaster prefer only google so it's better way
:)

[justinlorder]

If you optimize for google and yahoo at the same time .
It is common you can achieve in yahoo at first , then in google .
link anchor text and link quantity work well for yahoo ranking .

[jones1982]

Yahoo is very easy to optimize for as they put such heavy emphasis on anchor texts, I typically try to optimize for Yahoo before Google.

But my site got well rank into google search :D
I was in number 1 position in yahoo just for 5 - 10 days :mad: now its gone! where? I dont know :D

[tukang]

I think all search engines would have different weight for the anchor text. So you would rank good in one and bad in the other.

[bermuda]

At present, all the major search engines put emphasis and stress upon the links anchors used on the web and MSN can be really the best example of how anchors can help sites rankings.

[brian65]

They all have slight differences in my experience. I find that Yahoo gives more credit for links than Google, i.e. Google treats some links as worth less than Yahoo does. Also, I think Yahoo gives more credit for domain names and URLs with the keywords in more than Google.

[rambojustrambo]

anchor text is huge. remember, content is what spiders want, and content is what you should give them!

just remember keyword density and you'll be fine. also, try looking up LSI (latent semantic indexing) and that might help with some SEO if you choose to persue it.

[Andr3w]

the anchor text is very important for every search engine. Just that for Google a lot of other factors come in equation.

[ProudMillers]

considering it is mostly human edited i don't think it should mean too much, but would mean a lot in google though,...