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Yahoo #1 and Google #143

by Janet Walker
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I have a site that is ranked 1 in yahoo but 143 at google. Can anyone tell me the difference seo factors involved for the different se's.

Is this normal?

Please help
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
    Originally Posted by Janet Walker View Post

    I have a site that is ranked 1 in yahoo but 143 at google. Can anyone tell me the difference seo factors involved for the different se's.

    Is this normal?

    Please help

    The key to google's rankings are backlinks. For me, it is always relatively easy to get a site to rank well in Google. Yahoo, on the other hand, is a crapshoot.Sometimes sites rank well, sometimes they don't. I have sites that are on page 1 of Google that aren't in the top 1000 of Yahoo.
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    • Profile picture of the author BillyPilgrim
      Not just backlinks anymore. Google is looking for relativity and organic randomness as well. Add unique content to that organic randomness as well. A site with 50 BLs can beat a site with 400, and not just higher page rank links either.
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
        Originally Posted by BillyPilgrim View Post

        Not just backlinks anymore. Google is looking for relativity and organic randomness as well. Add unique content to that organic randomness as well. A site with 50 BLs can beat a site with 400, and not just higher page rank links either.
        Not *just* backlinks, but backlinks is 95% of it (that is, you certainly need your other ducks in a row, but if you don't have the backlinks for competitive terms, you will not rank well, period)

        Of course quality of links matters :rolleyes:

        As for relativity, I don't pay any attention to relativeness (i don't even know how you would determine it) with respect to my backlinks and my sites rank well and fast. "organic randomness" sounds sexy and all, but my links certainly aren't random and again, my sites rank well and fast.
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    • Profile picture of the author Si_P
      Originally Posted by Tom Goodwin View Post

      I have sites that are on page 1 of Google that aren't in the top 1000 of Yahoo.
      Me too. Yahoo works much different to Google. Although as Google is more popular, my Google rankings are all i care about.
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      • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
        2 of my sites did the Google Dance and have never come back on to page one even though everyone said don't worry they will come back, even higher in fact

        No idea why since they are both top 5 on Bing.com (I know that doesn't count for much)
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  • Profile picture of the author brp002
    See I am the opposite from you.

    Google #1 and Yahoo not in the top 10 pages.

    I rank well on all other search engines except Yahoo. Yahoo Search Engine sucks so I am sure they will change there algo very soon to be more like google & bing. That is my opinion.

    But for Google! Good Onpage SEO..... Then Build your backlinks and you will kill it!

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  • Profile picture of the author MONEYDON
    i dont know what your domain name is but i can tell you this: If you have a domain that matches the keyword search example get rid of pimples .com or .net you will almost certainly rank 1st on yahoo bing you will have to build more backlinks for google i have top sites on yahoo bing because of domain name it only works for .com or .nets go look for yourself on yahoo the .com and .net will always be at top
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