How to Get Indexed by Yahoo?

[JoeS]

I have a couple of sites that do very well on Google. Pages rank in the top 5 of many results pages.

On Yahoo, this is a different story and pages don't seem to come up in the top results at all.

Wondering what the trick is to get pages higher on Yahoo.

[BillyS]

JoeS - the topic you started is How to Get Indexed. Is that your problem or is ranking your problem?

Indexing by Yahoo can be painfully slow. I just got in following a penalty of some sort. Even thought they've already spidered 5,000+ pages (the site only has 1,000 pages), only around 500 show up.

As for ranking, simple SEO seems to work. Yahoo also likes to see fresh content.

[Stefan]

You could try submitting to the Y Directory.

[Eljaybe]

What about Yahoo! Search Submit, where you pay to have your URLs crawled by Yahoo, AlltheWeb, etc.?
Anyone try that yet?
Is it worth it?

[niels]

They also launched something similar to google's sitemaps, [submit.search.yahoo.com...]

[kahuna]

I just looked for a bunch of my sites on y-hoo...
but the listings are all wack. Not beee'cause of my site's rank. Then I thought... maybe they have a "new" way to add sites from the categories or something... going to the suggest a site link... you see the ol' pay me.. not only did I think they had gotten smart enough to send that old dead horse to the glue factory... It had gone UP $100..
Maybe it's a Donald Trump thing or something, or having to pay off the product placement on the Apprentice show..
Not trying to beat up on ya-oo here but really, who uses it anyway.
They also have a local guide that is showing up in google's top listing for a particular search, and that is filled with dead links and spammy sites.
I am surprised some organization hasn't gotten on ya-oo's case about not properly displaying... "Some site's in our index have paid $299 to be reviewed and indexed." With the appropriate asterisk acknowledging the paid inclusion.
Well anyway.. I am sure you have beaten this dead horse before.. so I'll diminish my comments.