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Hi!
Can any body answer my question that My website's keywords are almost on front page in Google, what should I can do to be at first page on Yahoo.
what are the strategies to be on first page at yahoo?

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Short answer: treat Yahoo the way you treat Bing. Yahoo’s organic results have used Microsoft’s search platform since the 2009 Search Alliance, and Yahoo’s old webmaster tools (Site Explorer) were retired years ago — so the practical route to influence “Yahoo” is to work with Bing’s indexing and webmaster tools rather than Google-only tactics. Microsoft announcement (2009) (news.microsoft.com)

Quick, practical checklist (what to do first)

  1. Verify your site in Bing Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap there.
  2. Add a sitemap reference to your robots.txt and keep the sitemap fresh. 
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
  1. Push important changes with IndexNow or Bing’s URL/Content Submission API so Bing (and therefore Yahoo) learns about new/updated pages faster. 4. Use Bing’s URL Inspection and site: checks to compare what Bing has indexed vs. Google — look for robots/noindex, canonical mistakes, geo-targeting or crawl errors. (blogs.bing.com)

How to adjust your on‑page approach for Bing/Yahoo

  • Emphasize clear titles/meta, exact keyword matches where natural, good alt text and schema/structured data.
  • Build a small number of high‑quality, topical backlinks and maintain site reputation; Bing tends to weigh domain reputation and backlinks differently than Google.
  • Improve engagement (CTR, dwell time) and technical health (HTTPS, mobile friendly, fast pages). (victorious.com)

Notes & troubleshooting

  • and were right that sitemaps matter — but don’t chase the old Yahoo Site Explorer; use Bing Webmaster and IndexNow instead. and ’s observations about differing results are normal: engines use different signals, so expect variation. If pages still don’t appear after checks, file a support request through Bing Webmaster Tools and follow the URL inspection guidance there. Focus on content quality and authoritative links rather than paid directory listings for sustained results. ()

Resources: Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow.

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Member Avatar for phoenix06007

join any Yahoo related groups. Google, Yahoo and MSN are different to each other. Different strategies in different SE.

Member Avatar for Dani

Same problem here, unfortunately. I do AWESOME with Google but no love from Yahoo!. Funnily enough, I was just browsing some old stats from Google Analytics, and I found that Yahoo actually did like me back in early 2006, and then just sorta fell off the radar and never came back.

Member Avatar for mitz

I have noticed that yahoo does not give targetted and focused results for searches like goole does. They are sending visitors to the wrong answers whereas google gets it so right!!!! Therefore I am not focusing on yahoo because they are probably making people angry with the wrong results.

Member Avatar for wickedsunny

wooooo hold on buddies. its really simple. u have to submit ur site maps to yahoo site explorer as well like we did in google webmasters. also submit ur robots.txt, feeds etc in it. its really help full. ur will we be on top im sure

Member Avatar for Barrel

Basically submit your site map - and then pray :) . You can also pay to get onto their directories

Seriously though - if you are near the top for google then you are on top of the game - anyone seen the recent usage stats? exactly how relevant is yahoo?

Member Avatar for phoenix06007

Basically submit your site map - and then pray :) . You can also pay to get onto their directories

hey are we going to wait a miracle by means of praying. lol

Member Avatar for Barrel

why not?

After all - you don't know Google/ Yahoo's ranking formula? :)

Member Avatar for wickedsunny

lolz guyz. i believe tht if we optimize a site very well we can get on top in no time. my site got 3/10 ranks in google in 20 days and its only 1 month and 20 days old :D. coz its well optimize and whe ever u search for the right keywords it always shows up on first page in google and yahoo and :D

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