I've neglected Yahoo! And Yahoo's neglected me!

How to optimise for Yahoo! The best tools to track yahoo progress...

[sandpetra]

Over the years I must admit - i've neglected yahoo! in favour of Google and MSN. I just don't seem to cut it in Yahoo where in Google i see good results for my work.

I want to come in from the cold!

Can anyone drop me any Yahoo optimisation tips? Also, which tools are best to track progress optimising for Yahoo?

[proboscis]

Yeah, it seems strange that a site can do well in Google and not Yahoo. I have a site that has had a natural (not paid) listing in the Yahoo directory for many years, it is referenced by Wikipedia a few times, and last month it got over 200,000 uniques - only 3% from Yahoo.

Also, does Yahoo love dmoz listings? Because I had several of those, then I was accidently delisted right before they shut down. My Yahoo traffic was 7% before I lost the dmoz listings...

So what do they want? Can you even get a lot of traffic from Yahoo? Can anyone else post what percent of their traffic comes from Yahoo?

:)

[Pirates]

Have you tried entering your site in the yahoo directory? Thats probably a good place to start

[abbeyvet]

Can anyone else post what percent of their traffic comes from Yahoo?

On my main site just over 3% - miserable. And it has an unpaid Yahoo directory listing, a DMOZ listing, loads of naturally acquired (ie not added by me) wikipedia links plus lots of other natural links.

The site does great in Google, but I would love to know how to improve its position in Yahoo - I don't believe 3% is all that is possible, the site just doesn't rank at all for searches that it is in the top 1-5 for consistently in Google.

[Huntster]

Yahoo is the easiest search engine to get back pages listed on. A good html title, complimentary header and good opening paragraph can do the trick.