Anyone have a clue about how yahoo ranks groups. I started a group and I am not showing up at all. I read all the help I could find but I did not see anything about timing or group ranking. Please let my know your thoughts if you have any ideas to help. PEACE BIGBOB
I haven't had any experience with Yahoo! Groups... I would optimise it like any other webiste... write unique content and build links
Yeppers, Tried the optimization thing already and crap sites are showing up in top spots. I guess I could link to it from all my sites. Thanks for the idea. BIGBOB
Just checked one of my established small yahoogroups, this one has PR4 and good links from related top listed/established sites. Yahoo even doesn't count the links pointing from it. It ranks nowhere in Google which even list is as an unrecognized format. Search engines seem to have problems with indexing it deeper on a very quick check. I personally wouldn't bother with Yahoogroup for a serious project. There is no software that would offer the comfort, features and user base of it, but your own though lesser discussion forum on a url you own, is IMHO well worth of the tradeoff in a long term. Otherwise, of course, as was suggested, links, links, links....
Thank you for your reply. What I'm actually doing is more of a test market. I see that some groups have 20 or 30 thousand members. I was hoping to get a few thousand so I can test market an email campaign for one of my main web sites. Well I have 4 PR5 web sites and 3 PR3 web sites pointing at it now. We shall see if that gives a little boost from under the pile. Thanks again for your reply. BIGBOB
I have started a Yahoo group as well, the Adult Toy group. I looked at other groups with the keywords "adult toys" and they are all spammy crap. Is there any value in a Yahoo group?
I see some groups with a Huge amount of members. When ever you have that many people in one place you get porn spammers and a starbucks coffee. I cant even get a listing for my keywords in the groups search. I used to think I was good at this. BIGBOB
you could make it moderated in this way ,only you can accept new emails sent to the group and about the rank hmmm it would take some days to identify your keywords ,and so you get listed in there
You can signup for a group and you would get the URL on your mailbox. yahoo groups are very popular and simple to manage. of course they come free