What do Yahoo and Bing Like?

15 years ago

In my opinion, the other search engines don't have the refined algorithm that Google has, so if you focus on SEO for Google, it will take care of the rest of the major search engines. Of course I believe you could do things to rank higher in other search engines where you would rank lower in Google, but that's another story.

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Musique

15 years ago

I am facing the same issue, my site is going up in rank in Google bu tit's yet to be indexed by other search engines. I heard that Bing is slow to Index sites, and Yahoo get
its search results from Bing so.

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hairdbeezt8

15 years ago

I don't think most marketers have been able to crack bing and yahoo. I think most people target google since they have the largest share of the market.

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Jdub2104

15 years ago

Originally Posted by hairdbeezt8

I think most people target google since they have the largest share of the market.

Hairdbreezt8, be careful here. They may have the largest share of the Search market, but not for certain niches/demographics/industries. I've seen with with my own sites. However, like you said, most people do love the big "G"!

Is the site fairly new? Like Musique stated, it can take a little longer for Yahoo and Bing to index your site. From my experience, my on-page helps with Yahoo and Bing. Strong Title Tag, Header Tags, Meta Tags, Description, and Keywords tend to do the trick.

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mpx305

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Jdub2104

Is the site fairly new? Like Musique stated, it can take a little longer for Yahoo and Bing to index your site. From my experience, my on-page helps with Yahoo and Bing. Strong Title Tag, Header Tags, Meta Tags, Description, and Keywords tend to do the trick.

The site is about five months old now.

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bikeswine

15 years ago

I've wondered the same about Bing in particular because I have some new sites that will rank for one day and then won't show up for a week and then pop up for another day, only to disappear again. I've wondered if perhaps Bing hits newer sites harder but I haven't read anything definitive about it.

As much as I'd like to rank well for all of them, most of what we know is about Google. I'm not going to tweak my site to rank on Bing with the chance of ticking of Google because that would obviously defeat the purpose.

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mpx305

15 years ago

Originally Posted by bikeswine

As much as I'd like to rank well for all of them, most of what we know is about Google. I'm not going to tweak my site to rank on Bing with the chance of ticking of Google because that would obviously defeat the purpose.

Very good point...

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jannet1

15 years ago

Recently both Bing and Yahoo getting merge to compete Google. Its not very easy because Google dominate all the major Search Engines and mostly people refer Google ...

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mpx305

15 years ago

I wonder if they are looking for a certain type of backlink that I am not hitting on. My on page SEO is good and all meta data is in place, so I am stumped at this point.

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satrap

15 years ago

Originally Posted by mpx305

I wonder if they are looking for a certain type of backlink that I am not hitting on. My on page SEO is good and all meta data is in place, so I am stumped at this point.

That is what I think is happening, ether a certain kind of backlink or another SEO element that Google doesn't factor in.

I am ranking great with my keywords in Google (many #1s, #2s, #3s,..), but with Bing and yahoo, it almost seems like my site doesn't exist!

It would be great, if someone could help us crack this code. Thanks in advance.

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rosesmark

15 years ago

Your keywords content should not exceed than 150 characters.
Your meta description should not exceed than180 characters, description should contain all main keywords and well written and quite descriptive.
Manage your main keywords in your text try to repeat your main keywords in all heading tags.
Do link your internal webpage, but all linked pages should on same topic and link word should be managed as keyword on linked page.
Use yahoo webmaster tools for sitemap submission.
Track your serps and keep optimizing your text with high searched volume keywords.

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dann12

15 years ago

Submit your url to yahoo directory, yahoo likes it !

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hotftuna

15 years ago

It seems that they like keywords in the domain more than Google.

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teatree 15 years ago

Google "how to rank in bing" and read each of the top ten results. They pretty much cover it.
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Josh MacDonald

15 years ago

That's weird. Your best bet is to sit and wait. Bing and Yahoo should follow Google.

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alcymart

15 years ago

I found that Bing and Yahoo compared to Google, they love high density for your keywords, whether its for Title or Body, or both actually. I rank #1 in both for my main keyword.

Bernard St-Pierre

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huppy21 15 years ago

I've been doing SEO for almost 10 years now and everything people have said here is pretty much spot on. Bing takes forever to index sites and my experience has been that if you do it right for Google you'll be default do okay in Bing & Yahoo. Obviously no guarantees, but that has been my experience.

Also as mentioned, Yahoo's results are now powered by Bing so if you rank in Bing, you'll rank in Yahoo.

Also, it appears that Bing favors the On Page factors more (or let's just say "faster") than it does the Off Page Factors (don't get me wrong they still look at Off page factors). And while Google really doesn't care about your Meta Keywords Tag it seems that Bing likes to see it, so make sure you have that in your site too.

Hope that helps!
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davidla

15 years ago

What about the opposite case?

I am looking into buying a website that did well on all three engines, but recently got google slapped/sandboxed pretty hard. (not deindexed)

Yahoo & Bing still give the website the same traffic flow and top rankings, but will that change after google slapped the top rankings to 100-200+ rankings?
There was no on page change that caused this, and the website is around 7 months old, (domain age 1 year +).

The website has a lot of unique ok written content and articles that target many small keywords, but generally website is quite static.

So the big question here, is how stable is the yahoo and bing traffic once achieved?

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melltonroper

15 years ago

Bing and Yahoo have the same algorithm...

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Giannii01

15 years ago

My sites are the same I can never understand why I cant rank on Yahoo or Bing

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strategic seo services

15 years ago

I think that Yahoo & Bing place more importance on the quantity of backlinks that a site has, whereas Google places more importance on the quality.

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mpx305

15 years ago

Originally Posted by strategic seo services

I think that Yahoo & Bing place more importance on the quantity of backlinks that a site has, whereas Google places more importance on the quality.

This would make sense as I have been "SLOWLY" building quality links to the site and the site is doing really good in Google but non-existent in Yahoo and Bing...

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Odhinn

15 years ago

In my experience, blasting your site with article marketing is the most effective way of building backlinks for Yahoo. They love quantity, but will also take a long time to index your links.

As for on page, Yahoo really likes Meta data (description, kws), keywords in your url, and higher keyword density.

One other trick I read about once was that Yahoo appreciates pages that link to themselves. In other words, within your article, find one set of your keywords and link them back to the page they're on. It seemed silly, and I've seen only mixed results when I've tried it myself, but I know I've seen that written in three or four SEO guides that came out between a year and two years ago, so it might be worth a shot.

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Shaikat

15 years ago

Originally Posted by mpx305

I am ranking well in Google, but my pages are non existent in Yahoo or Bing. Any suggestions would be helpful =)

Thank you!

Mario

No special link building required, but pinging of existing links may help.

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JamesGw

15 years ago

It seems like, to me anyway, that Yahoo and Bing rank exact match domains higher than Google does, and they do it more quickly. A weak site with an EMD can rank at #1 pretty easily for a medium-competition keyword.

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