Help optimizing for yahoo

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Liminal, May 1, 2005.

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  1. #1
    hi all,

    i am hoping someone can pinpoint the area on my site that still needs work in terms of optimizing for yahoo. http://www.devbistro.com has approximately the same number of pages indexed by yahoo and google. yet, google brings 94% of SE traffic while yahoo is responsible for only 3.5%

    if you can spare a minute and browse some of the pages, what do you think i can do to make yahoo happy (while not hurting google traffic, of course :))?

    best,
    james
     
    Liminal, May 1, 2005 IP
  2. Liminal

    Liminal Peon

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    one thing that could help, i believe, is adding more content to each page (job pages, resume pages). from what i understand, while google is not that picky about this, yahoo likes pages with a lot of content and keywords.

    what do you guys think?
     
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  3. Web Gazelle

    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    Yahoo tends to like sites that are more spammy. Optimizing a site to show better in yahoo can always hurt you in google. How are you showing in MSN?
     
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  4. Liminal

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    MSN bring a whopping 0.8 % of my search engine traffic :eek:
     
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    Well, if you get a million hits a day, .8% is 8,000. So that's not THAT bad :)

    As far as solving the Yahoo algo. You got me. I got overpassed by a ton of people who seem to think spamming is the cool thing to do. Another weird one is that my root domain isn't even promoted and ranks on the first page for my keyword (which is fairly competitive). I'm also not even using a title tag and rank on the first page. Figure that one out.
     
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  6. Liminal

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    true but it will take me a million years to get a million hits a day :)

    p.s. MSN has most of my pages indexed as well
     
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  7. Web Gazelle

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    If you show in Google and are also doing well in MSN then why fret about Yahoo? I think that Yahoo is going to lose out to MSN in the SE battle.
     
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    Web Gazelle,

    Thanks for your input. I don't show well in MSN. MSN is responsible for only 0.8 % of my SE traffic (even less than Yahoo)
     
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    Well DevBistro,

    you're right. Yahoo really like content! All my sites that show in Yahoo have good content. Like others said, keyword stuffing is much more easier since their spam filter (is their any spam filter in Yahoo???) is not good at all.

    Rubio
     
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    Yahoo doesn't mind clone sites either so why don't you clone your site a few times till your number 1 through 10? :rolleyes:
     
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