SEO for Yahoo

[andyllin]

What can we do to get better traffic from Yahoo?

[kre8or]

I would have thought "nothing different" to what you would have done for Google...or am I missing something?

[alter-ego]

Originally Posted by kre8or

I would have thought "nothing different" to what you would have done for Google...or am I missing something?

Either you are or I am because google loves me but Yahoo thinks I'm a scumbag.

[javaongsan]

yahoo is a lot easier than Google

[1websitedesign]

build more back links and you will get good ranking.

[Cryxellis]

Originally Posted by javaongsan

yahoo is a lot easier than Google

I was wondering if it's easy to get backlinks from Yahoo than Google,
why I was not getting rankings from yahoo though I can generate
traffic from it? And I only got rankings from Google?

Originally Posted by 1websitedesign

build more back links and you will get good ranking.

I'm doing it for almost 6 months but I can't get rankings from Yahoo.
Or there is a problem in our site?

[lqyromeo]

as long as you build too outbound links, you must be rank NO.1

[swiss]

Yahoo is following certain algorithms and we should know to optimize it for yahoo so that only we can get more traffic.

[myndconsulting]

Daily link building of 10-20 posts will help you in the long run.

[dadaas]

And thats all?
Just building links?

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by dadaas

And thats all?
Just building links?

Yes, do the same strategies like you do for Google. Build links and it will help you.

Also, there is rumors that listing in Yahoo Directory (it cost $299/year) can improve your Yahoo listing.

[Natural Elements]

Originally Posted by andyllin

What can we do to get better traffic from Yahoo?

With Yahoo you will have probably a better traffic if you are on their directory.

[samueldarwin]

I never care for this because I hardly get any traffic from Yahoo or Bing....

[marquisvdm]

Overture or now known as Yahoo because of Yahoo’s takeover, was the original inventor of the use of the P4P or Pay for Performance. Overture saw that the internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in the arena.

To get a person to go to a site than others, it needs to be very visible. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow them to have an increase in traffic as well as sales. Yahoo provides a service that can put a site or company’s ad in their sites that can be shown when certain keywords are inputted.

Yahoo offers a chance for any company to increase their traffic by using their services. With more people being aware of your site, there would be more traffic and visitors to your site given the chance to view your pages as well as your products. With even a small percentage of successful sales, with a high traffic volume this could still be a substantial figure for your company.

Getting a consistent substantial flow of website visitors is every company’s goal. Many methods are devised and utilized to ensure that there would be more people to boost the sales and to be aware of the existence of such a product or service. Website visitors are potentially the life blood of your internet based business.

Yahoo/Overture utilizes the same principle as Google’s Adwords. In fact, they are very similar to each other that they use keyword and keyword phrase searches and to determine which ads to show per search. When a person types in a keyword or keyword phrase to search for anything, the search engines gives out the results in a page. Then at the right side of the page, you will see selected ads that have paid for their ads to be viewed with certain keywords and keyword phrases searched.

For example, Lets say you run a car parts retail/wholesale site. You choose keywords that can prompt or trigger your ads to be shown in the page when a keyword is searched. When a search engine user types in Honda Accord, your ad may come up if you have designated that as one of your keywords. You don’t need to fully optimize your site with Search Engine Optimization methods and techniques.

While some labor so hard to make their site one of the high ranking sites per keyword search, you get the chance to be on the top of the list or at least in the first page of a search result increasing your chance to be clicked on. With that, you drive traffic and website visitors to your site a lot faster.

You will have to pony up some cash when using this service though. There are different ways Yahoo/Overture will charge you. It may be in the number of Keywords or Keyword phrases your ad uses or in the many times your ad is clicked on. Others offer many other services like having your ad show up not only in the search engine pages but also with some third party sites.

Third party sites support ads that have the same theme or niche as them. With more areas your ad is shown, you increase the chances of people knowing about your site or product. With more website visitors you increase the sales of your site which makes your investment with your ads a wise one.

With so many competitions in the internet based businesses, it is necessary to take a huge leap forward from the pack by advertising. Yahoo/Overture will be a great place to start. Many have utilized their services and have reaped the rewards of this decision. It’s a marketing strategy that will increase your website visitors as well as increase your sales resulting to profit.

It takes money to make money, while there are some methods that are basically low cost or free, using a marketing service such as what Yahoo/Overture offers will provide results faster and on a larger scale. Many businesses have learned this the hard way, don’t be counted with them.

[thewebhostingdir]

building backlinks and seo should get you more traffic. Another most effective way is Yahoo Ansers! join there and promote your site in the source area. It will bring traffic for sure.

[shiv1]

Originally Posted by andyllin

What can we do to get better traffic from Yahoo?

For Yahoo Seo you con use some directory submission and make site map in Yahoo.com

[sortinstechnologies]

Work on the same strategies which you are using for google.

[joelchrist]

Content is king for yahoo. You need to improve your content with keywords to get top on yahoo.

[socialfactory]

stop doing soe for yahoo , it has sold it's search technology to microsoft, although yahoo was never a search engine.

[Himalayan]

As we know that there are three major search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing) which we optimize for getting rankings in them. They all are applying different algorithm on results for searched keywords.