Yahoo Inlinks Ranking

When I check Inlinks on Yahoo I have noticed the ranking of the sites has remained steady over the years, with the top 10 staying pretty much the same. I was surprised the other day after we got a link on Smarty.net, because it jumped right into the #3 spot. So there must be some factors for ranking. For example, since Smarty.net is an authority site, maybe it was bumped up some. Any thoughts?

 

Never noticed that. I will check a few of my sites and report back if I do notice anything similar.

 

myabe, maybe not.. it depends on the time crawling and indexing of the site.. and of course that site that links to you.. they also might the reason..

 

Smarty has PR4 and when your site was listed there, naturally you found a spot in your position.

 

They definitely rank them according to certain factors. I read somewhere that Yahoo Inlinks are ranked according to the age of the domain, but this is not true (at least not in my case).

Checking my sites i noticed that the top inlinks have a few things in common:
-Large amount of inlinks
-Higher PR
-Age

 

I definitely can see that age is a factor as I review the sites. Good point.

 

I agree dvduval Site age is really matter for that.

 

Hmm, i really dont think because of page rank, because page rank is importance for google, and yahoo does not care page rank.

 

domain age plays vital role and relevant links as well.

 

I heard that Yahoo backlinks checker have been giving some problems.

 

the results in Yahoo are much better than Bing even so that Bing supply the info now for Yahoo

 

Sometimes it happens but you can't just say for certain that it really was the case or you cannot determine that these types of things will happen like this all the time. Domain age, links and content all play a vital part and you cannot leave one thing out as that might be the determining factor.