Yahoo SEO tips?

[DesertWarrior]

Hi,

I rank very good for Google, but exremely bad on yahoo despite a lot of on-site SEO... anyone has some good tips on how to rank well on Yahoo?

Thanks

[lindamood1]

for yahoo u should be very careful, bcoz yahoo loves keyword stuffing and good content and lots of backlinks

[jimmy03]

So what percentage of Keyword stuffing you would suggest for Yahoo??

[ircguy]

Hi,

I rank very good for Google, but exremely bad on yahoo despite a lot of on-site SEO... anyone has some good tips on how to rank well on Yahoo?

Thanks

Even I am facing same situation where one of my website receives around 1800 visits per day from google but only around 150-200 visits from yahoo...

I am also interested to know, If I can do something additional to improve incoming traffic from yahoo without compromising traffic from google....

waitin.....

[alek]

There is only one tip for yahoo and msn optimization try to promote your site in more directories, more submissions can put your site in the top.

[swanbros]

I'm in the same situation. My yahoo to google traffic is 1:300. :-(

[vansterdam]

Google cares more about quality links, while Yahoo places more weight on quantity of links. So you often need a greater volume of links for Yahoo rankings. Yahoo also cares about internal link structure and keyword use in those internal links.

[bermuda]

Yes Yahoo likes to see mass links pointing at websites for giving them good rankings, especially for the touch and competitive niches.

[Chercher]

This is just speculation. I haven't been able to do a full test of this, but it seems like the more common a link anchor going to all parts of your site (not just your domain name) will typically dominant.

So lets say you have a site on Magic Cards. You have a page for magic card tips, magic card tactics, magic card buyers guide and all of these pages have links with the exact same names. Well, your root domain would probably rank for magic card if you had the words on it.

[sharma]

yahoo gives more weight to the number of backlinks whether site-wide or not. Backlinks with keyword as anchor text is also very important for yahoo. Backlinks from sites that rank well in yahoo, sites listed in yahoo directory. Sites listing in yahoo directory will obviously help.

[cchol]

For me it is the opposite. I have several first page result for high competition keyword phrases for yahoo. The thing i notice is that yahoo love backlinks. The more the better, also your title, description meta tags and Url are very important for yahoo. That's my experience with my sites.

[cchol]

For me it's the opposite. i have several first page result for high competition keyword phrases in yahoo. What I notice is that yahoo loves backlinks, the more the better. Also yahoo put a lot of inportance on title tags, meta description tags and the url. You can put your keyword more than once in those and it will boost your ranking. That's what i experience on my sites.

[stevejeff]

Yahoo ! ranking depends upon your meta tags still ! So, enhance your meta tags with respect to yahoo.

[Tirmizi]

for yahoo , the onpage factors count more then what they do in google. If you have the proper keywords research done , have linked keywords and proper keyword density then you should be fine...

special focus should be on ;

Meta tags they should have keywords ,don't abuse though ....

[Blogmaster]

If you really care about Yahoo, I would recommend having seperate websites and optimizing some for Yahoo and the others for Google.

[uttampegu]

I liked Mr. Blogmaster's recommendation.

[shahid1]

i have same situation in my one site. But other have good in both search engines.

[traian13]

If you already rank good on Google does Yahoo matter? If so than Blogmaster said it ;)

[sm9ai]

For me personally I find that constantly changing page titles and meta data works very well.

It can be a lot of hassle though and can negatively effect Google rankings.

[Nandamuri]

Yes, even I have the same problem. I dont get enough traffic from Yahoo
I hardly get monthly 5 visitors from Yahoo.
Where as I get 2000 from Google. I knew it is pretty less traffic

[baliromantic]

Yes, My site too. I have page #1 in google, but page #7 in yahoo. SO, I get more traffic from google but less traffic from yahoo. I still confuse with yahoo. I have original content. What must I do?

[piak1911a]

RSS FEED can increase huge yahoo index.

[pichalee]

i really hate yahoo, dont know what they want actually

[gooblogle]

I think yahoo need a lot of time to crawl your site than google. It will come time that you will see the same result on yahoo and google. this happened for my blog after about 1 yr.

[mash240]

Lots of useful info here, cheers all.

[devzealot]

wow, great thread, i learnt heaps about yahoo seo that i didnt know , thanks :)

[Claudek]

For Yahoo, you may want to read How to Optimize for Yahoo! (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=488172)

Though a bit old, the principles do still stand.

[priyankeshu]

the point remains the same.. even when yahoo is sending less traffic there are less people using yahoo at the same time

[DesertWarrior]

this is really weird... 3 years ago Yahoo used to be easier than Google to optimize for... now it's the total opposite, it's becoming a real nightmare to have 1st page on both Google and Yahoo... it's like if you optimize for Google, you lose your Y! ranking... I'm wondering if perhaps it's done on purpose

[rharper]

If you really care about Yahoo, I would recommend having seperate websites and optimizing some for Yahoo and the others for Google.

Blogmaster has a good point.

[linkheart]

I also encountering the same problem... hope some one will give advice here...

[sikander hayat]

hi..

there are many tips to ranking yahoo following are some.

Beware who you link out to and do not participate in link exchanges with non-related content sites

Do write unique quality articles and submit them to article directories

[newlogo]

good content, internal hyperlink and onsite seo plays major role in yahoo

[zidit]

My site have a little index at yahoo but there are longer time index, compare to google easy to index but sometimes in a short your index are gone

[gabibeowulfx]

Traffic from yahoo doesn't compare to google's .. *sigh*

Yahoo seems to like the number of backlinks for now :)

[dollardomainstore]

Are there any good Yahoo ebooks or tutorials out there?

[jimmy03]

Check Out this one for Yahoo optimization..
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/articles/2007/0921.html

[blue_angel]

Me too I dont get enough traffic from Yahoo
I have monthly 200 visitors from Yahoo when I get 2000 from Google.

[bass]

Yahoo is the best traffic if you get index

[tanay46]

Hey, for Yahoo, the onpage factors are more important. Having keywords in the title tags, heading tags, and content help. Also, proper url's etc help. Focus on proper on page seo. You can read this on page seo guide (http://www.seohu.com/on-page-optimisation/on-site-seo/) or check out this (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1313077) thread on dp for more info about on page seo factors.

[pharmacy]

Internal linking of your site should be good for yahoo try to add complate page URL in you site and avoide writing click here or link of image try to add as much as text link and connect the pages internally so you will get good raking on yahoo too . . . .

[mr_vampire]

Well Yahoo is into metatags and huge amount of backlinks for a perticular keyword.I think keyword stuffing can work for Yahoo.

[logoboy]

Yes, even I have the same problem. I dont get enough traffic from Yahoo
I hardly get monthly 5 visitors from Yahoo.
Where as I get 2000 from Google. I knew it is pretty less traffic

First you have to understand that Yahoo is not popular than Google .. because mostly peoples prefer Searching on Google that;s why we cant get lots of visitors & 1 more thing Either your Website is not in top 10 Search result of yahoo.. That;s why Or Dur to average volume of keywords ...