http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=fr...h&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&pstart=1&fr=FP-tab-web-t&b=21 now why the heck cant google do that LOL #24 #9 on this search http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+image+host&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt #8 here http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=image+host&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
Congrats man! Well, we all know yahoo is the engine to target for new sites. It put lots of emphasize on on-the-page optimisation. Google on the other hand, wants more credibility rather than clever optimisation. I am not surprised at all .. If your domain has image-hosting in it's word you'll be able to go higher on SERP for yahoo on that keyword too .. Anyway, congrats again!
I never relied on yahoo or other SE's before, we used to have a couple of sites in the top 10 in google with the same keywors used above, were in Miami, dont know if anyone here remembers the great Florida/Google screw up a couple of years ago. we lost all our top google rankings and have not been there since.. we'll see what happens with these
Just an advice. Please read google TOS more carefully. You put adsense ads into user registration page, which is not good and also there is members login page that has ads, but no TEXT content...
we have owned 30+ of these sites and have never had any problems with google terms, I will be adding more text/content to the pages though
It's good that you had no problems, but it's not the reason to ignore terms... Take a look into this https://google.com/adsense/terms. Read #5 "Prohibited Uses" and it says there "on any registration or "thank you" page". Please understand me right, I do not know you and do not care about you personally... just trying to give you a good advice...
Congrats! I have similar result at yahoo and MSN, but it takes much more time to google to list my sites in the results. Some simple tricks, like high keyword saturation, h1, h2 etc. tags and alt tags on images combined with few links can easily get you on top of yahoo (and MSN).
Anyone know of any good resources out there on simple tricks like these? Also, is there a way to convince yahoo/msn to recrawl a site? They haven't visited in weeks... Thanks! Gary
is it for the site you have in your sig? I use robots.txt files on all my sites and I dont see one on yours.. I can track stats with that page to see which SE is crawling it
No I don't have a robots.txt file. I was under the impression that this was used to tell crawlers not to crawl certain parts of your site. Is it actually useful? Thanks, Gary
I know that its needed with the use of google ads and such, it is used to block dirs, someone else may know if it actaully helps SE's crawl your site or not, all I know is its flagged in my stats report every day with each SE that hits it
It's not required nor is it useful for crawling. The file is used to prevent certain agents from spidering parts of the site. The se's will request it every time the spider hits your site - they want to know which files to download and spider. If one does not exist, the default action is to spider/allow action to everything. It shows up in the stats because every reputable spider looks for it. If it doesn't exist, you are likely to see a lot of 404 errors as they well request a file that doesn't exist. If you don't have anything you don't want indexed, then you don't really "have" to have one.
actually.. not much at all.. would just let the domains sit for a month or two before.. then.. I see the yahoo is like google to LOL.. now I got 2 others in the top 50 but not the first ones...