Yahoo and Google's algorithms are more or less at odds and it is common for a site to rank well in one and not the other. Making your site friendlier to Yahoo usually comes at the expense of ranking well in Google. If you rank well in Google I wouldn't change anything and simply promote your site as normal. Eventually Yahoo will catch up.
stymiee
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Careful selection of keywords, incoming links, title tags, header and keyword-rich content are of course going to be as important to Yahoo as they are to Google.
Yahoo cares about page descriptions. Google usually composes its own page description based on the text of the first paragraph of the indexed page. Yahoo wants you to have a unique page description and you should diligently follow their advice.
Use a "description" meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make sure the document title and description attract the interest of the user but also fit the content on your site.
Use a "keyword" meta-tag to list key words for the document. Use a distinct list of keywords that relate to the specific page on your site instead of using one broad set of keywords for every page.”
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Yahoo does not use meta tags in their search engine rankings. They do read them but they won't affect your rankings. You should still make good meta tags but don't do this expecting a boost in the SERPs. Focus on your content and inbound links.
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> Google usually composes its own page description based on the text of the first paragraph of the indexed page
Actually, the abstract you see in the Google search results is usually the paragraph containing the keywords searched for.
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Or the description from the site's DMOZ listing or the site's meta description tag.
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Hard to say for sure. It looks like Google goes in this order most of the time:
1) Dmoz description (usually only affects the home page)
2) Snippet from the web page
3) Meta description tag
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Yahoo focuses on quality contents while Google is based on Quality links...
Actually, Google uses links to determine quality of content. That's what PageRank is all about.As of now Yahoo changes it's algorithm lately they added links as factor..
Links have been part of Yahoo's algorithm for years.
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Yes, I've already now that Yahoo have been a part of Yahoo algorithm for years but they focus more on Onpage Optimization what do you think?
It's not so much they focus more on on-page factors as they are years behind Google in link analysis and can't keep up in that area. They'll keep moving to a link-based algorithm as they improve their capabilities to analyze links as it really offers the best way, that we know of right now, to determine relevancy and authority.
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