Thread: Yahoo Search Engine Optimization

Aspects of backlink counts that must be taken into consideration when optimizing your website for Yahoo!:

* Quality of site - like Google has attempted to do in the past with PageRank and is learning to do with TrustRank, sheer numbers aren't what will get you high rankings on Yahoo!, the quality of those links is more important.
* Position of link - like all the major engines, the position of your link on the page is important. A link at or near the bottom of the page is less valuable than a link nearer to the top. Also, if your link is on a page with other links, the effect that link will have on your rankings decreases respective to the number of links on the linking page.
* Anchor text - the text used to link to your site will help reinforce that the keywords in that anchor text are associated with your site/page. Also, if that anchor text in in the midst of the content it will hold greater weight than if that anchor text is in a directory-style format above a description (i.e. link a standard links page)
* Non-reciprocal links - reciprocal links are certainly still valuable on Yahoo! however it is important to supplement these links with non-reciprocal links in the form of directory listings and other one-way links.

Hi,

I understand the number of outgoing links. Can you explain if your link is the only out going link on the page why you feel that the "A link at or near the bottom of the page is less valuable than a link nearer to the top."???

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Sami

My experience with yahoo is that "Yahoo need back links don't care about relevancy or PR", My site keywords are at first page of Yahoo and i have just comment on blog nothing else, but this cost me on Google, keyword disappear from Google.

Is there anyone who help me, that how can i submit my website in Yahoo Search Engine.

I can help you submit your website to Yahoo Search engine

Hi,
yahoo search engine try to submit your site in yahoo directory and try yahoo answers. this will help you to optimize site in yahoo.

Thanks, this guide is vivid and clear and easy to implement it in my process of promotion of my website - thanks for sharing, mate!

I like how Yahoo has incorporated the TrustRank which is a copy of Google's PageRank. Very neat feature. A lot of members on my host's forum have started to push their SEO techniques to also include Yahoo now. I'm thinking of doing the same and I hope Yahoo doesn't stray too far out.

Yahoo seems to view the website content as more important than Google. Google values backlinks more than yahoo. Yahoo values content.

I found that Yahoo gives weight to domain. Keyword rich domains work best. One of my new sites got to the first position for quite popular keyword, just because of a great domain. Unlike Google, Yahoo doesn't really care about how old domain is.