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Originally Posted by stacy131
Deezines, do you mind sharing what you did to become so popular on Yahoo? I have submitted by site URL and sitemap there and have almost as many pages indexed by them as I do in Google, but your popularity in Yahoo, compared to Google is unsurpassed? What tricks did you use with Yahoo?
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I dont think we use any 'tricks' as such.
What I will say is this, and it i'm likely to get flamed...the headlong rush to try and garner loads of mildly themed incoming links is in my opinion overated.
We concentrate on good content, refeshing it, and use sensible semantics to target our keywords/phrases.
Yahoo
really likes keywords...it also really likes Meta title and Description...so pay a LOT of attention to getting these right; but remember, your Title & Description semantics need to be placed properly then throughout your content copy.
I dont think I am allowed to identify our site, otherwise you would be welcome to go take a good look around! lol.
We come page one on Google [ and I think position 1 ] for about 12 - 15 keyphrases with approx 1.5 million upwards competition.
On Yahoo, the situation is even better.
4 years ago we used to send out around 400 - 600 brochures a month by post to our target market [ SME's ]
Now they are gathering dust in the office. All our new enquiries come from the web now.
SEO is a fascinating and also frustrating thing.....
I do believe in trial and error.....try a change and see if the SE's like it, or not.
Key is, dont make loads of changes all at once because you'll never know which were positive or vice versa.
Pay close attention to the Stats package you use to monitor traffic and visitor habits....it will tell you all sorts of invaluable information that you can use to tweak your Metas and/or Copy content. Quite often it will throw up a Keyphrase that you are not using but realise you should be.
I check ours daily.
Hope some of this helps, and i havent bored everyone to death!
D.