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Typically, I don't pay much attention to Yahoo, but perhaps I should.

Will commenting on no-follow blogs (with varied PR from PR2-PR5) help your rankings with Yahoo. Any other methods that especially help with Yahoo or Bing?

Also, what about anchor text? Even though it's Yahoo, maybe it's best to stick with my name on 80% of them instead of key words.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ohioquotes
    And to save from starting a new thread...Will getting accepted to the Yahoo Directory especially help your serps in YAHOO (as opposed to Google)? Just curious because I bit the bullet last night and paid the $299 for one of my sites. Very reputable site who was hit a little bit by Penguin.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Originally Posted by Ohioquotes View Post

    Will commenting on no-follow blogs (with varied PR from PR2-PR5) help your rankings with Yahoo. Any other methods that especially help with Yahoo or Bing?
    Nofollow links were introduced back in 2005, originally as a way to combat comment spam on blogs. As anyone with a blog knows, comment spam is alive and well. However since that introduction the purpose of the nofollow link attribute has changed to become a way of identifying paid links and untrustworthy links, and ensuring that your site does not gain SEO benefit from nofollow backlinks.

    Nofollow link tells search engine bots not to follow the link. The link passes on no SEO value -- it essentially exists only for people, and not for search engines.

    The same link building method you use for Google should work for Yahoo and other search engine as well.

    Also, what about anchor text? Even though it's Yahoo, maybe it's best to stick with my name on 80% of them instead of key words.
    If you stick with your name 80% you won't be doing yourself good in ranking for your anchor instead you will be ranking for your name with no queries.

    Its only when you are not permitted to use your keyword that you should consider your name, your name should always be a second option.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ohioquotes
    "Its only when you are not permitted to use your keyword that you should consider your name, your name should always be a second option.

    But I thought one of Penguin's big changes was to NOT do that. Or at least, not more than 50% of the time.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      We are mixing up a lot of things.
      SEO, nofollow, spam, links not followed,
      paid links, untrusted links, and a whole lot
      more, seem to be getting mixed in with
      each other and the nofollow.

      Google has wanted webmasters to be a
      police arm for them, and encourages you
      to use nofollow in tons of ways it was
      not intended. People read that and get
      things that aren't there.

      Example: CBS official twitter has a nofollow
      link to cbs.com. That link is neither paid, spam, untrusted,
      not followed, and, it's actually pretty good for SEO,
      although cbs hardly needs it. Just an example.

      Example 2: You put a comment link in a blog post
      that has a zillion spammed links, nofollow or not. What
      may google extrapolate about your link?

      The real reason for nofollow was to try and restrict easy
      raising of PR, a google product. Since yahoo/bing have
      no claim to google's PageRank, they have got to do
      other things with nofollow. Nofollow is not theirs, but
      it makes sense to do something with it. Granted, they
      probably have something very similar to PR, but the
      results from bing and google can be miles apart
      sometimes.

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