How to get high rankings in Yahoo

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by girbaud, Mar 1, 2006.

  1. #1
    hello everyone. it seems like my SERP position in yahoo hasn't changed. most of my keywords were not ranking in yahoo. what's the best way to make my keywords rank in yahoo?
     
    girbaud, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  2. adamjthompson

    adamjthompson Well-Known Member

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    IMHO, One of the keys to good Yahoo rankings is site-wide keyword optimization. In other words, the theme of your site. Yahoo seems to look at the site as whole moreso than other engines.

    The more pages on your site that are related to your keyword, the better.

    So, what to do?

    Try to incorporate your main keywords in as many titles, alt tags, meta tags, pages, etc across your site

    Interlink the pages well using your keywords in the anchor text

    - Adam
     
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  3. carmen

    carmen Peon

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    Although they don't place as much empasis as google, backlinks are important, especially from reputable sites
     
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  4. mdvaden

    mdvaden Active Member

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    The way to rank high, is to be one of the first 10 good websites to come around.

    In time, when there are finally 100 or 1000 websites, all perfectly optimized, only 10 get to reach the top.

    I think it's dandy and a blessing for anyone that reaches the top 1 to 10 positions, but other than that, I realize it's more important to just design a good website.

    First goal > design a functional, beneficial site with good information.

    Because we can't all be number 1.

    And the other thing I'm realizing, if you have number 1, try not to loose it. I hold the top spot in Portland for my arborist trade. I may be in second or third for a couple of keywords, but with all dozen or so terms, we're at the apex. But I'm not in Portland anymore. Yet, I keep a page up for Portland and send work to another arborist with that page. In return, I get a kind of commission. So as other tree services are fighting thier way up, I just do a slight tweak here and there, and add a couple of more inbound links every month or so.

    But if the other 100 tree services without websites in Portland got sites, I don't care how good their web masters are, they would have to scratch and claw to get to about number 15 if everybody optimized all at once.
     
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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    it is never easy. my sites have a tendency to rank better in Yahoo than in Google.
     
    InfinityGuy, Apr 3, 2006 IP
  7. SandisV

    SandisV Active Member

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    i haven't figured out how to rank well on yahoo and msn - so far wroked just throw a bunch of pages that linked together and see here and theere yahoo sends couple of visitors ;) but never done good in it :(
     
    SandisV, Apr 12, 2006 IP
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    Sorror Active Member

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    The key is to take care for a fresh content and have a static core at the same time. Think about RSS, Y loves it.
     
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    SandisV Active Member

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    Well, we have all static and on front post like latest 20 articles, which changes every day, but the traffic is 0-5 visits a day, while google and mns sends together 200
     
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    Sorror Active Member

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    URL please for further analysis ;-)
     
    Sorror, Apr 13, 2006 IP
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    ash1 Active Member

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    if you put ur keyrword in excess in title.meta tags, and on ur site and images, doesnt that include as spam?
     
    ash1, Apr 13, 2006 IP
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    Sorror Active Member

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    Safety in numbers. Less than 10% of all words for main keywords and it's okay.
     
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    www.mensarticles.com is the site ;) thanks mate!
     
    SandisV, Apr 21, 2006 IP
  14. Sorror

    Sorror Active Member

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    You didn't specify your keywords (and there is no meta keywords tag on your site). However, a lot to improve at the first sight. Your dynamic core consist of anchors only, and that's pretty bad (short description of each one would be nice). Like I said before I don't know your keywords but take a look at the title and meta description. Except one ('articles') I can't see any other theme-content-targetted words or phrases. Another one: there is no rss channel...

    And finnaly: you don't have backlinks :) (about 220 on Y, 20 MSN). You've got a lot to do, both with on- and off-site aspects. Now just start workin' ;-)
     
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    I am always in favor of trying for building good content. Success in blogging takes time and good content is most important.
     
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    ferret77 Heretic

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    crank your keyword density and get lots of links
     
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    maldives Prominent Member

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    Link polularity and the content.
     
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  18. Basoone

    Basoone Peon

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    #18

    ask yahoo.com :D

    One factor that I recognize is high keyword density but dont make it look spammy..

    I just checked my rankings in yahoo, 8 good keywords got no. 1 position

    Yahooooooo:p
     
    Basoone, Apr 21, 2006 IP
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    In my experience, if your site has only a few pages and every page is essentially about the same keyword, and the pages are relatively small, then you will get a high ranking in Yahoo, but not in Google.

    If your site is rich in content, having a large number of pages covering a range of topics related generally to a specific theme (but not necessarily to a specific keyword), and you get some backlinks, you'll do well with Google (in time) but Yahoo will practically ignore you.

    The point is that you cannot generally do well with both Google and Yahoo at the same time. Has anyone seen this to be any different? What kind of site?
     
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    genkied Active Member

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    freshness of content is a big plus...
     
    genkied, Apr 22, 2006 IP