What is different about optimising a site for Yahoo?

Bullet · 09-23-2009, 03:37 AM

What would you do differently if you wanted to optimise a page for Yahoo and NOT Google? Are there things that Yahoo specifically looks for that other search engines don't?

Dylan55 · 09-23-2009, 04:06 AM

Focus your submissions to yahoo sites.

Jeff Collision · 09-23-2009, 04:18 AM

I always prefer to optimize my site for Google and getting the result in Yahoo too. Getting backlinks from relevant quality site and other promotions like Social Bookmarking, Directory Submission, Blog commenting, etc..

MarketingTide · 09-23-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Collision

I always prefer to optimize my site for Google and getting the result in Yahoo too.

That's definitely the way to go. 1) Google usually drives many more times the traffic of Yahoo and 2) if you optimize for Google, rankings will come with Yahoo.

And to specifically answer your question, there's nothing fundamentally different about optimizing for Yahoo as opposed to Google. The only thing that might come to mind is submitting Yahoo! Answers with your url in the resource box.

Mosaic · 09-23-2009, 04:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Bullet

What would you do differently if you wanted to optimise a page for Yahoo and NOT Google? Are there things that Yahoo specifically looks for that other search engines don't?

Hi,

When i optimize a site, i focus only on what seo techniques i am using and how accurately i am using those techniques. I think that if your site is nicely optimize it can rank in any SE.

The only difference between Google and Yahoo are Google didn't give any importance to meta keyword tag, while Yahoo and other SE's are still have some importance of it.

myndconsulting · 09-23-2009, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mosaic

Hi,

When i optimize a site, i focus only on what seo techniques i am using and how accurately i am using those techniques. I think that if your site is nicely optimize it can rank in any SE.

The only difference between Google and Yahoo are Google didn't give any importance to meta keyword tag, while Yahoo and other SE's are still have some importance of it.

I agree to this, if your site is highly optimize and you have still used meta keywords , descriptions , title , correctly then your site will surely rank high on yahoo and google too.

AIEN · 09-24-2009, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Mosaic

Hi,

When i optimize a site, i focus only on what seo techniques i am using and how accurately i am using those techniques. I think that if your site is nicely optimize it can rank in any SE.

The only difference between Google and Yahoo are Google didn't give any importance to meta keyword tag, while Yahoo and other SE's are still have some importance of it.

I 100% agreed with you .. really good answer Mosaic....

florra82 · 09-23-2009, 01:52 PM

SEO is a general term and has general set of rules that all major search engines follow. On the other hand you can do a little fine-tuning using specific meta tags that are only related to Yahoo.

bermuda · 09-23-2009, 05:25 PM

When you have a top Google ranking website, even if your Yahoo traffic poor, there won't be any problems.

thewebhostingdir · 09-23-2009, 06:26 PM

I prefer Google. If you optimize site for Google & not for Yahoo, then you will be more benefited.

stephen clark · 09-24-2009, 06:14 AM

There are no major different to optimize site for diffrent search engine.

Every search engine has diffrent algoritham.

there are google is most popular search engine.

90% people searches from google.

So if we constraint on google we getting good results.

doomcashdown · 09-24-2009, 06:20 AM

If you will be optimizing for Yahoo, then I guess you should retain the meta keywords tags that is ignored by Google. Submit your site to Yahoo's directory, and remember to put your keywords in the anchor links in your backlinks. I guess Yahoo cares less about the amount of backlinks, only the anchor text. Please correct me if I'm wrong, if Yahoo is concerned, you can still get link juice from nofollow links.

shakir · 09-26-2009, 10:44 AM

I feel yahoo and Google same.. but yahoo will take some more time than google to rank... but once get stable rank in Google then yahoo also start to be stabled....

scpalmetto · 09-26-2009, 09:49 PM

It is said that yahoo pay more attention to the onsite thing!

AirForce1 · 09-27-2009, 01:22 AM

Google puts more weight on site contents while Yahoo might give nice backlinks more weight.

nichita2008 · 09-27-2009, 02:12 AM

Yahoo have another algorithms for ranking. I have a site recently penalized in Google. The funny thing is: visits from yahoo increased about 10 times in this time interval !!

So, you must experiment a little or just follow your competitors (analize their strategy).

mobilekaren · 09-28-2009, 06:45 AM

I agree with nichita2008, see what your competitors are doing who are top of Yahoo for your niche as it obviously likes that strategy.

**htmlbasictutor** · 09-28-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullet

Are there things that Yahoo specifically looks for that other search engines don't?

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...Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page...

Reference: Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines