SEO for yahoo!!

[JessieJames27]

Given that their share of search is so small is it worth doing anything to my site to optimize for Yahoo?

[youchy0]

I don't think so. but it depends how much money you want to make

[angilina]

I suggest you try to optimize for google, your site will automatically rank well in MSN and Yahoo too. You need to build back links, thats the key, so back links will help you rank well in all search engines.

[Northcoast_SEO]

i agree with both the above posts. if you build your links right it is pretty easy to rank in both (or all three). There isn't any Yahoo specific tactics that I employ

[jackiechanlee]

Yeah... I noticed that if you're ranking well for SERPS in google, the same goes for other sites. The other way around doesn't hold

[ian_batten]

Yahoo is a dead end. I get about 2% of my traffic from Yahoo. I'd concentrate on google... regardless both searc engines don't have HUGE differences in how the rank you. Unique content, thick keyword densty, and lots of backlinks will get you places you've never seen.

[Lovely]

I suggest you try to optimize for google, your site will automatically rank well in MSN and Yahoo too. You need to build back links, thats the key, so back links will help you rank well in all search engines.
...yes that is right, I optimize for Google and my sites are ranked very well in Yahoo and MSN too.

[WebWriter]

How do you optimize for a specific search engine as opposed to optimizing your site in general? If I build backlinks, focus on on-site content, etc isn't that just optimization period?

[falguni1]

make backlinks and your site will rank well in all serach engines.

[TheSites]

They're right about optimizing for Google, optimizing for one search engine will have effects on all of them.

[dudemjk]

So what the tips then ?

[TipTopMovie.com]

yahoo serch use less best google.com

[homebizseo]

The seo effects serp for all search engines. Optimizing for 1 helps all. I just want to make money online.

[shutterslide]

It would be good if people could give some tips on how Yahoo differs to Google though. I've got sites ranking well on Google and the terms hardly show up on Yahoo so it does not always follow that ranking well on Google will translate to Yahoo.

[bannedperson]

Do you still have loads of traffic from yahoo? I don't. My site stats say everything (99.9%) come from Google. Makes little sense to work on yahoo rankings

[PoppinDots]

I barely get any traffic at all from yahoo. I can't even find myself within the first 5 pages for the keywords im targeting, yet im listed on page one for those same search terms in google.

[SEO_WatchDog]

I have nearly as much traffic from Yahoo as from Google, but I rank a way betther in Yahoo than in Google. Do not underestimate the SE!

[qeorge]

Yahoo traffic is worth going for. It converts much better than Google traffic.

I've found Yahoo will count more links from the same sites, for instance one of the sites in my sig ranks #1 for its keyword on Yahoo and #29 on Google.

Yahoo seems less sensitive to always having the same anchor text, though variation is always good. Also, I've heard that Yahoo prizes validating XHTML more than other search engines.

[Germz]

Do the same thing for all the search engines... the only thing that varies between them is their algorythms but no one knows those so it's a shot in the dark.

[ameran]

I think if you optimize it for Google, then it will be optimized for Yahoo automatically.

[fiveniner]

The fundamentals for ranking is more or less the same, keywords, content, etc. From experience, ranking well on Goolge doesnt ensure you rank well on Yahoo. There's a slight difference with ranking algo for Google and Yahoo. For one some sites that provide link juice on google might not on yahoo.

[Rudy1211]

With Yahoo! commanding approximately 18% of the total U.S. search as of March 2008 according to Nielson Netratings, then yes, it is still worth optimizing a site for Yahoo!

[DJMC]

Concentrate on GOOGLE (78% OF US SEARCHES)..... and Yahoo will eventually come around.

I noticed that Yahoo seems to count links more than Google

Conclusion: sites with lots of links do better in Yahoo search? (need more data to verify)

[greenstamps]

Do the same for yahoo as with google

[kingofsanda]

Google is the only search engine you should optimize your site for.

[xuehuxue]

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