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Does anyone have any opinions on what Yahoo's criteria is for good organic placement. They seem to be quite different than Google and MSN.
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This thread raises a timeless question: what does Yahoo look for when ranking pages? Search engines have shifted since 2008, so a modern answer should reflect that history and practical steps you can take today.

Yahoo’s public web search has been produced through a partnership with Microsoft for many years, so behavior you see on Yahoo now tends to mirror Bing’s crawl and ranking signals (see Microsoft’s announcement). For actionable control over how your site appears in Yahoo/Bing results, use Microsoft’s webmaster platform to submit sitemaps, inspect indexing, and review search query and crawl reports (Bing Webmaster Tools). Those reports usually point to the fastest fixes.

Earlier replies by , and touched on differences from Google and on-site/link considerations. The key takeaways that still hold: prioritize content relevance and a clear site structure, fix technical crawl issues, make pages fast and mobile-friendly, use HTTPS and structured data, and earn editorial links from topical, authoritative sites rather than chasing bulk volume. Practical white-hat approaches that work now include creating genuinely useful resources, outreach for editorial coverage in your niche, partnerships that produce co-authored content or data, and improving UX so pages naturally attract citations.

For troubleshooting, compare indexing and query reports between Google and Bing, run site: checks to see which pages are indexed, inspect server logs for crawler errors, and use the webmaster console’s diagnostics to find duplicate content or canonical problems. If rankings differ greatly between engines, focus first on clear on-page relevance and authoritative, topical backlinks — those tend to translate across engines and give the most durable lift.

References: Microsoft announcement on the search relationship (see Microsoft News) and the Bing Webmaster Tools homepage for submission and diagnostic steps.

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Is Yahoo! even a search engine?? I thought they were only a directory, in which case searches would tend be much more literal. I could be wrong though. Heck, I probably am.

Does Yahoo! have anything similar to Google's Webmaster Tools perhaps? I tried doing a quick search and couldn't find anything about Yahoo! submission criteria. I just kept ending up at random posts on answers.yahoo.com that weren't very valuable everytime I searched.

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Yes. They have Yahoo Site Explorer.

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If you have got the keyword in your domain name and get few thousand links to your domain, you can rank good in Yahoo.

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If you have got the keyword in your domain name and get few thousand links to your domain, you can rank good in Yahoo.

Thanks. How would you recommend the best way to get a few thousand links in a white hat manner fairly quickly?
Best regards

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Is Yahoo! even a search engine?? I thought they were only a directory, in which case searches would tend be much more literal. I could be wrong though. Heck, I probably am.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-msgr&p=yahoo&type=

Does Yahoo! have anything similar to Google's Webmaster Tools perhaps? I tried doing a quick search and couldn't find anything about Yahoo! submission criteria. I just kept ending up at random posts on answers.yahoo.com that weren't very valuable everytime I searched.

Note really like Google' Webmaster but you can set a feed back you your site and add even folders one by one

:)
or you can chick this one it might help you
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/


Thanks. How would you recommend the best way to get a few thousand links in a white hat manner fairly quickly?
Best regards

Dear 2bu yes you can do that just search for "Free directory submission" in Google or Yahoo
hope that helps

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