Yahoo! used to be the most popular search engine. Then Google made an appearance in the internet. Yahoo! is still in the running as far as search engines with about 25% of the search engine traffic yet it is still important not to count Yahoo! out of the search engine options since they are making a comeback.
Optimizing the search engines is not an easy task. They search engines have different criteria for their search results yet they all use a basic theory for their results. They do have differences but nothing that the website owners cannot overcome with a little imagination and internet skill.
Knowing the differences between the search engines will make achieving rankings with Yahoo! easier. Both sites use algorithms as part of their search criteria. Neither major site will share exactly how they use the information but knowing the differences will make higher ratings for each.
To utilize the Yahoo! uses spiders for their search engine. This means Yahoo! saves the information in their database and uses the information on the individual websites to later search the different sites once they have made changes for their search criteria. To find out how your website is used with spiders use Search Engine Spider Simulator to see if your webpages are spiderable.
Yahoo! also has a method called sandbox that will retain the information of the websites past and present content so they can index the information within the website searches. Google uses this technique as well but not as much as Yahoo! since Yahoo! does not wait as long to use the information. Google waits several months while Yahoo! uses it more frequently.
Google places more importance on backlinks while Yahoo! concentrates on the front pages of the websites including the title, URL, and the headings on the websites. Yahoo! treats keywords and phrases differently as well. You list a keyword or phrase within your site and Yahoo! will place your site higher on their rankings. The keywords must be located within the URL and title to obtain higher Yahoo! results. The shorter the keyword on the website the higher the rankings are with Yahoo!. An example of this is “horse” will score higher than “horse trainer.” The extra word in the description will move the website lower in the rankings.
In short, the smaller the keyword is on the webpage the higher it will be ranked with Yahoo!. Add the search results by adding the keywords or phrases in filenames in the directories of the webpage. Beware of doing anything too different within your webpage so you will still rank high with Google also. Changing the content of you website for Yahoo! can and will affect your ratings with Google.
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