Yahoo SEO vs Google

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Yahoo SEO vs Google

How would you SEO pages for Yahoo different then for Google?

latimer

6:43 pm on Sep 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

We have two sites with same content on several thousands pages.

One site is for Google and Yahoo is blocked from spidereing via robots.txt, and the other site is for Yahoo to spider.

We rank well in google but not Yahoo and want some ideas on changes we could make to the pages open to yahoo that would improve ranking.

Any ideas on this? Anyone else taking this approach with success that would be willing to share some tips based on experience?

stargeek

1:18 pm on Sep 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

among other things I've noticed that google is more sensative to Over-Optimization than yahoo.

cabowabo

1:21 pm on Sep 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

In short, Google is an "off page factor" engine while Yahoo! is more of an "on page factor" engine. Yahoo! is more tolerant of Spam, and you have all of the Ink issues there as well. Spend some time in each forum and read the tips that have been posted over the last few months.

Cheers,

Cabo Wabo

boomer

9:57 pm on Sep 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

Personally I think yahoo is giving praise to those "underdogs" in google. Its really quite ironic.

ak47mars

1:26 am on Sep 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

google have pagerank, but yahoo for vs google, it will put webrank to search market, in my opinion.
So yahoo changing greatly in these days, it updating likes google's Florida. Yahoo already start from USA seo market.

Thirdcatgy

3:07 am on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

I agree that there is less of an eye on optimization with Yahoo, however, over the last 2 months they seem to have adopted a similar strategy with regard to incoming links and the age of the site.

latimer

6:51 pm on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

thanks for the replys.

any thoughts on if new pages added to an older site also require time to age before ranking well? Or, is the age factor simply site specific and the newer pages acquire the aging of the older site.

If yahoo is using more off page factors, is it likely that yahoo's serps are becoming more critical of missing pages or broken links on a site?

What I'm seeing seems to support that new pages do suffer the age factor, and missing pages and broken links are having more of an impact over the last few months.