Some of the useful tips to optimize a website for yahoo : a) Backlink from relevant sites using good anchor text. b) Use absolute links not relative links. It will help you in the popular 3 search engines. c) Good site structure means clear navigation is important. d) Insert target keyword around 6%- 8% for yahoo. Also please add your experience here if something is missing or should be modified.
Absolute Links - <a href="http://www.domain.com/pagename.html"></a> Relative Links - <a href="pagename.html"></a>
you provided very useful information, but please give more specific explanation about below italic phrases. I am not familiar with using good anchor text, absolute and relative link, and I do not understand percent of keywords.
Do you think you there is a difference between SEO for Google and SEO for Yahoo.? I have been in the make money online internet business a short peroid of time. But I have been studing SEO for a few years and SEO is Seo.
I was using relative links. I had very few back links in yahoo then. Now absolute links increase the back links of my website in yahoo and have good results in yahoo. I was expected more tips but no one adviced me more tips.
The list is generally same as optimizing for google. I have done most of them but still, the result is not as satisfactory as with Google. It led me to conclude that the only way to top in yahoo is to pay the fee, which I think is out of the question. Yahoo doesn't give me as much traffic anyway.
It will only matter if you will be posting off-site, i.e. like posting to technorati, etc. relative links will not be accessible. I am using relative links throughout the site, but when I am referring to a site page in my blog, I use the absolute link of the site page.
This can make a difference in Yahoo I've seen. No difference at all in the other search engines though, I think it's because of the weight Y! gives to KIDs.