Yahoo Optimization vs Google Opt

What's the deal

[silverbytes]

As it has been said before, yahoo results and google results are different. Those considered overoptimized sites were dropped from first page results in G but some sites seems to be friendly to Y!

So what are the new tips or guidelines to get the top on yahoo serps?

And will that be in permanent conflict with Google? Is that the choose for one era?

[allanp73]

I don't believe in OOP on Google. I have sites that are highly optimized and are ranked well on both Yahoo and Google.

[silverbytes]

Regardless of your personal thoughts, there are lots of #1 sites pre florida that are now ranking badly in G.
Personally one my sites ranked that way and was dropped from G but raised to top in Yahoo.

I wonder how to keep balance...

[markis00]

I wrote a small article on optimization for the new Yahoo engine. Try searching it up, it's in this forum.

[silverbytes]

Thanks I will

[steveb]

Optimization for both is nearly exactly the same, except Yahoo reads meta keywords.

*Spamming* the two engines have two different tactical approaches. The different results are largely due to differences between the low quality sites that one engine or the other includes along with the quality sites.

There is no such thing as overoptimization and the sooner you get over that nonsense the sooner you can optimize your sites properly.

[soapystar]

There is no such thing as overoptimization and the sooner you get over that nonsense the sooner you can optimize your sites properly.

funny then that Tim mentioned this as being my problem!

[Larryhat]

Hello all.

I suppose this has been asked before, but I'm still
hazy on the issue. Does Yahoo count incoming links
at all, or do they ignore those entirely and look at
everything else (content, keywords, meta-tags ... )

It must be a huge effort to count links from all
sites to all other sites. - Larry

[cbpayne]

Does Yahoo count incoming links
at all, or do they ignore those entirely

Almost all search engines use some form of link popularity and reading of anchor text in their ranking algorithm.

[Larryhat]

Thanks cbpayne:

Glad to hear that, Yahoo lists 100s of links
to my pages the last I checked.

New question! Bizland hosts my site. They have
a long statistics page I call up. Part of that
is "Sites" visiting my site, but these are listed
as what looks like dns (server) numbers .. e.g.

81.132.22.X2; 24.79.168.1X2; 24.243.1X7.9 ..
and so on. If I try to call those up directly
(which works for SOME numbers) I get an endless
wait and nothing comes up.

Are these crawlers? Is there some way to look
up which one, or who owns these numbers at least?

Best -Larry

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 5:31 am (utc) on May 20, 2004]
[edit reason] Obscured IPs [/edit]