Yahoo SEO

[chem]

Okay, I have a site that completely sucks for content, links, h1 tags, all that good seo junk you hear people go on and on about for days. Don't get me wrong, all that is needed when trying to get rankings in Google.

Here is what I have found out for Yahoo with a personal site of mine.

Yahoo heavily favors keywords in your .com. Yes, you will be ranked higher then most without it but a good solid site with back links, age, content, h1 tags, blah blah will out rank you.

Title tags. Solid keywords in your title tag. The first keyphrase in my title tag I rank VERY high for, and it's a keyphrase a lot of websites go for.

My personal site has NO content, poorly omptimized, and lack of back links.

Here is what I have found out for Yahoo with a business site I do work for.

Age, age, age, age. WOW! The domain is from 1998 and is ranking for some NICE keywords.

http://local.yahoo.com/ -- Get your business listed there.

Solid links from old domains. This site has about 11-20 links. They are all from
relative sites with old domains.

The business I do work for is just a small town business. They don't get many sales. Their old website was just trash. Horrible navigation, very little content, lack of contact information, ect. All this time they have been losing sales. They are a small town business but rank or solid STATE keywords, in surronding states.

In conclusion, get rankings in Yahoo isn't too hard.

1) keywords in title tags and/or domain name.
2) Have an older domain.
3) List your business in Y! Local
4) Get solid relative back links from older domains.

Oh, and to everyone that says "Yahoo doesn't bring much traffic" ... It brings in quite a bit. I have noticed more older people use Yahoo/altavista.

Good luck!

[riverlee]

I found it do help ranking well that indexed in yahoo directory.

[www.AmCy.org]

Yahoo heavily favors keywords in your .com...
Extension doesn't matter: None of the major search engines favor .COM domain names over the other generics like .NET or .INFO.

[chem]

I don't know. I think .com .net .org .edu are the most favored domains. I think .com's are favored the most.

[sgugal]

I don't know. I think .com .net .org .edu are the most favored domains. I think .com's are favored the most.

No ..never will be . They have not much to do TLD .

[jaree]

Extension doesn't matter: None of the major search engines favor .COM domain names over the other generics like .NET or .INFO.

He is saying keywords in the domain. Not talking about extensions i believe :)

[chem]

He is saying keywords in the domain. Not talking about extensions i believe :)

That is what I ment at first. I should of said domain. My apology.

But I do feel search engines favors .com, .net. .org and .edu over the others.

[tgo]

I have .info's ranked #1 in google msn and yahoo for the same terms TLDs do not matter.

roadrunner internet specials
Google (http://www.google.ca/search?q=roadrunner+internet+specials&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)
Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=roadrunner+internet+specials&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=CA)
MSN (http://search.msn.ca/results.aspx?q=roadrunner+internet+specials&geovar=70&FORM=REDIR)

Its site design, really....

[reapr]

Spammy metas help with Y especially a site with no or little content thought you can over do it ..

[Darrin]

Chem,

Thank you for your post here about Yahoo SEO. I've read this along with a number of others over the past few days and I'm struggling to figure out why I am having trouble getting traffic from Yahoo (or MSN for that matter). I'm starting to think it is something obvious that I am just missing.

I have a site listed in my signature below that has been running for about 5 months (maybe that's my problem).
It's a technology blog with no tricks going on.
We put out about 6 or so new, original content posts a day.
Yesterday for example (1/9) we had over 4,000 unique visitors, and over 1,000 of them were organic from Google.
Yahoo sent only 15 organic (MSN sent 8).

I also wonder if it's due to the nature of the content, and most people looking for technology are using Google? Any insight you or anyone else could provide would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
-Darrin

[BrandonAtNite]

See I have done a small amount of SEO compared to what I should on my site, but it is ranked well for my keywords on Yahoo. Google is a different story, but I think if you submit to the directory and do have clear keywords in your title and your meta portion, Yahoo will pick it up much quicker and easier.

[wm007]

I have a site listed in my signature below that has been running for about 5 months (maybe that's my problem).
It's a technology blog with no tricks going on.
We put out about 6 or so new, original content posts a day.
Yesterday for example (1/9) we had over 4,000 unique visitors, and over 1,000 of them were organic from Google.
Yahoo sent only 15 organic (MSN sent 8).

I have pretty much the same problem like you with one of my sites. :D

[fadetoblack]

For yahoo its more about Title tags and keywords in content.

[toomm]

Did anyone experience a site being deindexed for having a reciprocal link directory?

[jakomo]

Yes, is true, old internet people use Yahoo and Altavista.... I will list my site on Yahoo Directory

Jakomo

[volatile]

Did anyone experience a site being deindexed for having a reciprocal link directory?

I've never had a site deindexed for reciprocal linking, but I only trade links with quality, relevant sites.

[wm007]

For yahoo its more about Title tags and keywords in content.


That's just total nonsense.

[toomm]

In fact only the homepage is indexed and has very poor results. In msn and G i am doing fine.
I've never had a site deindexed for reciprocal linking, but I only trade links with quality, relevant sites.