ranking on google but not yahoo

sometime ago i checked a site i was looking at and it optimised well on google, getting 1st page ranking (not converting tho) for competitive keywords, but on yahoo its nowhere to be seen. what are key area that give good ranking in yahoo?

 

Dude you should be happy. It's much more important (and harder) to rank well on Google than on Yahoo. Whatever you were doing to achieve this keep doing it. Don't worry much about Yahoo.

The ranking is based on the same fundamental system for both engines: more backlinks - better SERPs

 

Be more focus on google. Though yahoo can contribute traffic once your keywords are starting to rank, but the major search engine that drives you a traffic is the google. So be happy that your keyword rank in google.

 

yeah Yahoo is much more difficult to rank on as opposed to google. I ranked number one on google for "how to start a clothing line" for forever and yahoo took a good 4to 6 months more for me to rank number 1 for the same term.

I guess it makes since because they most likely use a very different algorithm than each other. Google is number 1 in search for a reason...simply they know what there doing.

 

yahoo, msn and google all has its own algorithms. and they all put different weight factor on some very important SEO things.

 

thanks all for the replies.

there was a time i ranked well on yahoo, now its just google. i hoped if i ranked well on yahoo i could convert more.

 

You surely are lucky to rank first on google, as the other have said. i find it more easy to rank on yahoo rather on google. i used to be on the first page on google but as i found today that i was kick off again. yes focus on google more as it is the search engine most visited.

 

yahoo doesnt give much traffic neways

 

Whether or not Yahoo gives traffic these days is one thing, but I still think that it is important for you to try and get your sites ranking well in Yahoo, as well as Google.

You never know when Google will do another update and your site disappears from the SERPs. If you can get a decent ranking in Yahoo, you won't be placing all your eggs in one basket.

Alex

 

Have a good keyword density on your pages and build lots of back links.

Hopefully, you will also see your site in yahoo search results.

 

yahoo takes a longer time than google. Google will rank your site really quickly.

 

You'll be caught by Y! eventually, just give it time.

 

Hmm... my website was indexed by google, but yahoo seems to ignore me. Website statistics shows that there was that yahoo bot, but mydomain.com doesn't appear in yahoo at all hate waiting

 

quite honestly, why even worry about yahoo at this point? With so much turmoil, why not go with the big dog here.

 

FuzzBuzz you should be happy as already told by someone, I will say the same thing once again.

 

I wish I had number 1 ranking on google .... anyways, yeah everyone else said it already, so I won't repeat " You should be happy for getting number 1 on yahoo" - oops just said "You should be happy for getting number 1 on yahoo"

oops just repeated it AGAIN

Jason

 

I like that you somehow masked that last statement, props for not being obvious.

 

Have a good keyword density on your pages and build lots of back links. And For that you have to just Search Links only Yahoo, than you can get ranking in yahoo also....

I am sure you will get good results, you will also see your site in yahoo search results.

 

Yahoo is slow in terms of lookinf for keywords compared to google. As always, google was better in terms of searches.

 

It's usually on yahoo.
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