Yahoo page #1 in 4 days...?????

[Filter]

Hi All

I know it's only Yahoo so I'm not excited, more curious. Anyone done much research into Yahoo SERPs or have any idea how Yahoo thinks and how this could happen?

I haven't even started pushing this site yet, just got my content and on page SEO going, RSS's and pinged.

Site Age: 7 days
Actual Content on Site: 4 days
Amount of Content: 5 pages
Backlinks: 1

Yahoo Position: #7
Google Position: nowhere to be seen! (but it is indexed)

Google Competition: 1 mil
Google Searches: 12,000 / month
Avg CPC: $4

I have a .org keyword domain and what I think is pretty good on page SEO but even so, position #7 in 4 days with 1 backlink....anyone...???

Cheers

[Andrew O]

Interesting. With 1 million results, that's not TOO competitive but nothing to scoff at either. I think this is definitely due to the keyword domain, those tend to help a great deal, especially with a newer site. That, along with the on-page seo might have done it for you.

I have also seen pages boost to page one when they are new and fall back over the next few weeks before climbing their way up the rankings naturally over time.

[PhilipSEO]

It depends wholly on the keyword.

Originally Posted by AndrewOlson

With 1 million results, that's not TOO competitive but nothing to scoff at either.

Real competitiveness is not how many results there are, but how many of them are SEO'ed for the given term.

[Toby.T]

Originally Posted by PhilipSEO

It depends wholly on the keyword.



Real competitiveness is not how many results there are, but how many of them are SEO'ed for the given term.

So true. great work, I would bet the first 5 or 6 sites on the first page are SEO'd nicely.

[shaktimaan]

Is it an exact match domain?

[Filter]

Thanks for the input guys.

As most mentioned, only the first few SERP pages are what I would call well optimized (for the term) so obviously that's helped a lot. Most have a healthy number of backlinks so really looks like Yahoo does place a lot more weight on SEO.

And yes Shaktimaan, it is an exact match domain which again points to big SEO score for Yahoo.

Thanks again for the input fellas.

Cheers

[pandorasbox]

I have seen keywords that have millions of search results but very little people competition for exact keyword-terms so maybe this is the case. Also, I have bought a domain that when I index it slams me in page 1, then I find out it had a backround that went away because website was inactive and then all links started showing up again.

[eugenedm]

you must have discovered a new niche. Try to find a product to sell that will monetize your Goldmine.

[Chucky]

From my experience, Yahoo gives a lot of emphasis for the domain name and on page optimization instead of off page optimization.

For example, do a search for this phrase "lookup unlisted phone numbers" without the quotes on yahoo and google separately. Look at the difference of results. On google, the only sniper site is #10 on 1st page. All the others are authority sites. In contrast, on yahoo, the top 5 are sniper sites whose domain name is optimized for the above phrase.
I think this is your situation as well!

[Filter]

Thanks Chucky, that's the conclusion I am coming to as well.

Site is still not in Google top 20 but has moved up to #6 on Yahoo and I still haven't started up my backlink machine

Originally Posted by eugenedm

you must have discovered a new niche. Try to find a product to sell that will monetize your Goldmine.

Thanks eugenedm, the site is loaded with Amazon products so we'll see how she goes. (the main keyword is a product keyword)

Cheers