How do I get listed in Yahoo! Search "Web Results," and how to increase
the ranking of my site?
Sweat Equity Tip: Short on time.... focus on
Google as Yahoo represents 15.61% of the browsing world whereas Google
represents 73.52% as of May 2009
Web results are the most relevant web pages found by Yahoo! Search
Technology in response to your search terms. Web results are generated from
billions of web pages crawled and indexed by Yahoo! Search. Many factors
influence whether a particular web site appears in Web Search results and
where it falls in the ranking. These factors can include:
- The number of other sites linking to it
- The content on the pages
- The updates we make to our database
- The testing of new product versions
- The discovery of additional sites
- Changes to the search algorithm --and other factors
Web Search lists results ranked by relevance and offers a combination of
sites from the entire Web obtained by Yahoo! Search and from the Yahoo!
Directory. A particular site's position in a list of results can change over
time.
Results may include links to sites that participate in the Content
Acquisition Program (CAP). CAP enables content providers to submit web pages
and content directly to Yahoo! for review and inclusion within the Yahoo!
Search index through the
Yahoo!
Search Submit program. Yahoo! Search Submit offers a way for you to
submit URLs that are quality reviewed and included in the index that powers
multiple web portals, including Yahoo! Search.
Please Note: Ranking or placement
on search pages is not guaranteed in this program, only inclusion in the
database that powers results.
More about
Yahoo! Search...
Getting your site listed in the
Yahoo! Directory can
increase the likelihood that your site eventually appears in Web Search
results. However, a listing in the Yahoo! Directory does not guarantee that
it is listed in Yahoo! Search results, or that it is listed in any
particular manner or order in Search Results.
More about Yahoo! Directory listings...
You might also consider taking advantage of the
Sponsor Results program in order to have your site appear near the top
of Yahoo! Search results for a particular search query.
More about
Sponsor Results...
A good place to start looking for general information to increase your
knowledge on the ins and outs of building web presence and search engine
ranking is the
Search Engine Optimization category in the
Yahoo! Directory.
Please Note: The sites listed in
this category are run by independent third parties and are not owned or
controlled by Yahoo!.
Unfortunately, we are not able to offer specific advice on the placement
of any given site in Web Search results.
Other Resources:
May you be graced with spiders soon!
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