Comments on: How to Rank Well in Yahoo!

By: Itchy Skin Rash

Itchy Skin Rash — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:40:35 +0000

I have one site doing well in yahoo and one that does well in google but I can’t find in yahoo. They both have unique content and are regularly updated. I wasn’t sure what the organic results requirements are for yahoo.

By: NPs Save Lives

NPs Save Lives — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:27:49 +0000

I am ranked very well in Google, but it is definitely harder to rank in Yahoo. I’m still checking back from time to time and I often check my usually high ranked keywords on Google to make sure that I haven’t angered the Google gods in some way.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:40:37 +0000

Thanks, Chris! I appreciate the kind words.

And just to defend Yahoo!, it does appear that they’re very selective about who gets into the paid programs. Having people pay to be there might actually give better results in some (many? most?) industries.

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:11:30 +0000

Hey Shane,

I think you hit it right on. I know with other websites I run it’s nearly impossible to get any traction with natural search rankings in Yahoo. So along with your evidence it would make sense that a portion of the rank results are paid results.

By the way nice blog, I don’t know why you don’t have wayyyy more subscribers.

I’ll be linking to this post soon (not that I’ll send a ton of traffic, but I’m sure my readers will be interested in this as well).

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:00:33 +0000

Personally, I think Yahoo’s natural rankings are broken. I’ve paid for search submit on a site, gotten it included in the Y! directory and have it optimized up to wazoo, and nothing — not even a third page ranking. Google and MSN love me with that site. This is all compared to a site I’ve all but abandoned and it has #1 rankings. Soooo who knows! The art (and joys) of SEO…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:00:53 +0000

Good deal Shane, there apparently another tier as well – SSPSS – Search Submit Pro Self Serve – it’s a bit cheaper than the full SSP but has most of the features that SSP has, you only have to do them yourself. Some of the things you don’t get from what I can tell.

You only get up to 5 domains to submit into your feeds. Also, with SSPSS you lose the ability to submit the ‘quick links’ or ‘alternate links’ inside your feed that appear under your domain in the SERP – (Note: Google gives this for free but you can’t control the links – I might be wrong on that from the Google side, however.)

Just my .02 – is anyone else using it and does anyone have any benchmarks on what they used to decide if it was worth it or not? Just curious…Cheers, Swanzi

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:46:37 +0000

These two paid-inclusion products (Search Submit and Search Submit Pro) are actually different from Yahoo! Sponsored Search. I would imagine that they all have similar rules, but it might be worth looking into.

By: anuncis classificats

anuncis classificats — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:36:59 +0000

Yahoo PPC program is really complicate to use, as customers are required to open one account per country, so for this reason I’m not working with them. I hope they reduce their formalities soon. For the moment, I’ll just focus on the organic results.