Tips for Ranking Well on Yahoo??

**jcboy460** · 11-07-2007, 09:43 PM

How do you rank well in Yahoo? Yes I know, Yahoo is a distant second to Google. I already rank on first page for all my KW on Google and have had no luck on Yahoo. Any tips?

**bluefrog59** · 11-08-2007, 10:03 PM

Things Yahoo pays attention to:

a) heavier emphasis on 'alt' attribute (but don't go too far or Google will get upset).
b) strong variation in page titles (not all the same - make them keyword rich)
c) loads of links (and it doesn't hurt to have a listing in their directory).

**jcboy460** · 11-08-2007, 10:10 PM

I think I am two out of three. Only thing missing is the directory. Can't justify paying that much.

**bluefrog59** · 11-08-2007, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by jcboy460

I think I am two out of three. Only thing missing is the directory. Can't justify paying that much.

Yeah, me either. I'm less concerned about rankings in Yaho than Google but it is nice to pick up the peripheral traffic provided mods to the site don't affect the Google side of things.

**Jim Olenbush** · 12-19-2007, 04:00 PM

Yahoo seems to reward those sites that buy site wide text link ads on major news sites. Google does not count those at all, but Yahoo eats it up.

**Rehoboth1** · 12-24-2007, 12:25 AM

I've been working SEO magic for close to ten years now and in my experience Yahoo tends to value domains that have been arond for two or more years. Google is easier to get into and get a page one ranking but Yahoo is far more difficult.

**larthestar** · 01-21-2008, 06:22 PM

I find the opposite to be true. I get into Yahoo immediately with #1 rankings for my keywords. I have to search through page after page to find myself on Google.

**RobM** · 02-09-2008, 09:05 PM

Its pretty much a crap shoot...good rule of thumb is get 4-5 good ranking in bound links and make sure your keyword density is no greater than 5-7% and you should do fine...but very difficult to optimize around all 3 since they are all different in criteria

**iamsudhi** · 02-10-2008, 08:41 AM

To get a good ranking in any search engine the following 3 things pretty much works:

1. Having orginal and keyword rich content on each page.

2. Creating a site map.

3. Having some very good backlinks to the site.