I think site age, quality content, and number of back links are factors. If you have a blog then add that feed to your My Yahoo! page. Click on "+ Add Content" > "Add RSS Feed". Your site gets indexed by Yahoo faster that way and so are its content. Everytime you add a new post, it gets monitored and indexed by Yahoo!.
+1 and thank you for these links. Question for you: Google indexed my home page twice while it was under development, I have two pages indexed as my home page both of them are not really good in terms of content. Do you think I should delete them from the index and let yahoo do re-indexing again, or if I delete my site from yahoo, it will never be indexed again? Thanks, Peter
I was stuck at 1 pages indexed for the months, then in just one weekend Yahoo indexed 2500 pages. So it takes time, just keep up with the backlinks and check in on it once in a while.
Yes i do agree that yahoo wont bring the traffic as google does..Because maximum customers use google... But still in some regions Yahoo is having more search... there is nothing like preferring one search engine...As we does web promotion we need to optimize first that in the specific region customers are using which search engine...[Work Smartly] we will get the results in search engines itself that which search engine is good in specific region...So be quiet wise enough for optimizing search engines.. Ultimately all the process we does is for driving the traffic...And not to promote any search engine... Every search engine has its on Value...it doesn't make that all our visits are through search engines...through reference sites too...So ultimately the total process enhances the traffic....
Don't dismiss on-page optimizing (titles, headers, text) in relation to whatever keywords you're focusing on, and provide them with an appropriate context by surrounding them with related terms.
Some of my sites rank really good in Yahoo. Two of them comes out in the first page, but I don`t even know how and why. I would like to be on Google The sites are new and I do not have many backlinks. So I don`t know how it happened. I don`t have so much visitors either. I guess Google brings more then Yahoo.
To rank in Yahoo and Bing I would suggest submitting your sitemap to them. I have sites ranked in the top 10 of both. Lew
Do more backlinks and other SEO techniques. I agree, ranking high in Google is easier than Yahoo, but both works great!
Some of our sites get far more traffic from Yahoo then do they from Google. And the quality of Yahoo traffic is 3 times better than Google when it comes to conversions. The more people that ignore Yahoo the better for us