Low Yahoo Ranking

Yahoo ranking is very low, despite decent Google and MSN rankings.

[petekennedy]

I am puzzled why some sites that rank decently on MSN and Google have poor Yahoo rankings.

For example, my site is recently ranked #18 on Google, #5 on MSN and #75 on Yahoo for the phrase [widgets] (and #18 on Google, #22 on MSN and #225 on Yahoo for [widget]).

Based on the research I've done, I thought Yahoo cared more about on page content, and my initial thoughts about were:

* Not enough content on homepage
* Not enough content on site
* Not enough changing content

But this doesn't explain why some less-optimized websites outperform in Yahoo.

For example, a competitors site is ranked #14 on Yahoo for [widgets] with a static homepage that has less text on it than my site. That site is a PageRank 4 site with 5 pages and only 178 inbound links according to AllTheWeb.

My site is a PageRank 5 website with dozens of pages and 2,440 inbound links.

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thank you.

[edited by: jcoronella at 3:17 pm (utc) on Oct. 31, 2005]
[edit reason] keyword and site specifics removed [/edit]

[SFReader]

I optimize for Google and do yery well on Google. Slightly better on Yahoo and Altavista.

MSN it the tougher one for me, but not terrible.