Top Ranking In Yahoo

I've found several examples of people using Yahoo's domain service...

[rumple]

I haven't checked exhaustively, but doing a search for tents, mountain bikes, backpacks, and sleeping bags...

The first result in every case is a domain name registered and maintained through yahoo's service.

I'm so.......

ANGRY, sigh.

[satanclaus]

Thats a little disturbing. Have you pursued this any further? If so let us know

[JamesR]

Is it registered with their service or an actual Yahoo store?

[EliteWeb]

If it is Y!Store enabled sites I can kinda see them doing that. If it is favoring domain names registered through them thats odd to me. I perfer my 9.95 domain name over top ranking for right now :)

[rumple]

This is happening for pages that have their domain names registered through Yahoo and no Yahoo Store. If you search for the examples I gave, the first result in each case belongs to the same person and even and contains nearly identical material.

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[JamesR]

I don't think it is due to the domain registration, they are just playing the Yahoo submission game and getting a boost for keywords in the URL. That is how you beat the Yahoo system and get high page rank. Learn and be wise.

[rumple]

After checking several other keywords, looks like you may be right JamsR. Just so happens that this seo chose these phrases and also happened to register their names with Yahoo's service.

Still very uncool that such low quality sites have top ranking (i'm jealous cause I want the positions =) and that the sites' content overlaps, but....

[cjtripnewton]

Yahoo! used to have a spam reporting email address. Does anyone remember it?

[rumple]

Since posting this, I've dropped from 22 to 1856 for our favorite keyword. Coincidence? I think not. What a bunch of [insert your favorite derogatory term here].

You win Yahoo. I'll spend my time on other engines. Not because you can't be exploited, but because you are completely un-american (fair play non-existent), inconsistent, and self-serving.

See Ya.

[chris_f]

cjtripnewton,

Sticky my way when you get it please.

[WindSun]

On one set of keywords on Yahoo we come in at #39 - behind two other sites that have been deaed for almost a year - both are 404....

Yahoo is just great...

[rudy]

Ok. I've done some reasearch on ranking high on yahoo
for my keywords. It seems that the top 10 listings for my
keyword are all listed in the directory.
Heaviest weight seems to be placed on keywords in the url.
For instance britneyspears.com places top or near top.
Ofcourse I also understand that keywords should be in
the description.

Now when I also notices some sites(in yahoo directory) that come
up first or second for keywords but they have a description starting with:
! Jewelry Auctions - Get your greatest... or
#1 Jewelry Auctions - Get your greatest....

Do these characters ! or #1 place higher in the search result when
in the description first?

I also heard someone mentioning PR on yahoo's directory
search results? Is this true? I know web sites or pages(whatever they call it)
are used by google but those are secondary results.
My keywords would never see the light of day there so does
PR apply to listing in the yahoo directory? It is all manual edit
so no Page Rank software should be working.

These are the only things I know of if you need to rank high on yahoo
results by directory.

1. keywords in url
2. keywords in title.
3. listed in directory highest up possible

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Rudy

[Hunter]

Keyword(s) in the category helps as well Rudy.

[rudy]

Right.

What about this PR thing? Does this apply to Yahoo's directory results?

[WindSun]

I cannot see where PR would have anything at all to do with Yahoo. It is a directory, not an SE. I think the major problem with Yahoo (aside from their badly outdated directory) is their search engine they use on their directory. Time after time, it turns uo totally irrelevant results, even on advanced searches.

[2_much]

I've seen a definite correlation between sites ranking high in Google and Yahoo.

Of course, PR seems to be just one of numerous other factors when ranking sites in the Yahoo directory. It seems to be more important in highly competitive keywords.

Windsun, test it out. Try improving your link popularity by finding link partners. It just might help you rank better.