hey hi to all... I observed two things in yahoo.Which i think might be one of those factors which might be useful to achieve the ranking in yahoo. I observed that yahoo give importance to meta Keyword (as Google doesn't give) and also give the importance to short keyword related title.... And the most imp is that i think it also gives the importance to HTML formatted pages I want the opinion of you guys that is my observation are true or not.. and also want to know the other factors(on site off site)which might be useful to archive good yahoo rankings. Thanks In advance...
ya i know Google is the best.. but i also want to know the ranking secrets of yahoo... coz yahoo still contain the 25-30% market of search... and it is also useful to make our business more popular..
I can confirm your observation on short titles. Apart from that sidewide links do still work well with Yahoo.
thanks for reply... ya i know links are have the main importance.. but apart from this their are various factors which i want know... what you have to say about my second observation about html format pages...????/
So, how many meta keywords should you have so Yahoo doesn't discard the whole thing as keyword spamming?
We are talking here about Yahoo, Google is completely irrelevant on this thread, and even more irrelevant to know if someone likes it or not. That's not the question.
I agree with your observations besides the one regarding HTML formatting! That's just nonsense! It can be explained this way (at least my view) - domain age has much greater importance, so and because too many sites (old and older sites) still do have .html formatting, they appear to be on top! Regards
no you are taking me wrong... i said that yahoo gives more preference to html formatting as compare to other formating... you can chek most of the top sites have the .html format....
why don't you go in Google section........ you just writing post for inc your post count... This is totally rubbish.....
DP is seriously going to the dogs judging by most of the replies in this thread. Back to the point, Meta Keywords are looked at by Yahoo. Even though Google says they don't look at it, it is still a good thing to have on your pages. Keyword related titles may help in your ranking for all the major SEs. It would of course lead to the "relevancy score". I find keyword sites to be better though. The reply by some would be, "No, only relevant content would rank your site" etc. However, I have managed to get number 1 SERPs on both Bing and Yahoo with keyword related sites as well as being beaten by keyword "No content" sites in Google. HTML format is an interesting one. I rank well on sites where I have used some nice verified HTML code as well as some where it is terrible but the content wins out for me. Many of my recent sites are in php and rank quite well in Yahoo (output is split to html, directory and .php pages) If you are interested in Yahoo optimization, you may want to read http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=488172 which while old, does still work for me.
Yeah you are right. Google recently advised that the meta keywords are being ignored. But yahoo still has measurement values for meta keywords.
Not sure about meta tags but others are true. Besides, never forget about keyword density, it plays important roles as well