Know what's funny? I rank on page 8 on Google for a certain keyword, (which I wasn't ever trying for) and it still sends one of my sites over 1k a day.
Not necessarily true, I have a decent amount of reciprocal relevant links and i still havn't received a ranking, therefore links help if you are already recognised substantially by google and yahoo , i am in yahoo but not google its all about the aging delay, based alledgedly on kws and their competitivness.
I agree. I am a newbie to SEO, but after optimizing our site for a competitive key word - and some rather obscure ones - we jumped from the 4th page of Google to the 1st and we haven't yet started a links campaign (although we had a reasonable number of backlinks to begin with). Yahoo on the other hand(!) thats a different story. We initially shot up from the 11th page to the 6th and there we have stayed for 13 weeks. I don't understand how our site can be ranked highly by Google and not Yahoo
I personally like Yahoo! and to a certain extent MSN for their fast index inclusion and willingness to spider my sites on a regular basis. I have also recently noticed significant jumps in my Keyword Ranks on Yahoo! for semi competitive terms (up to 6 mil ) and I'm liking it... I just wish more people would start using Yahoo instead of Google. PS: Congrats to those of you who have #1 of XX,XXX,XXX that is pretty amazing!
I will say it again. It seems to be all about inbound links with your KWs in the anchor text. That little PR thing is only counted in Google. I have links from places with PR 0 that are getting counted in Yahoo.
Yahoo tends to be a lot like the old Google - much easier to optimize for. Keyword density, keywords in the URL (especially domain) tend to count for a lot in Yahoo.
Everyone's right. Don't count on being number one for both. From what i've experienced, when i'm number one in google, i fall in yahoo and vice versa.
All you need to do with the new algo is get tons of inbound links with your keywords in the anchor text.