You have over 200 posts, beats me to hell, so I assume you are asking
this as a serious(?) question? Makes me think, however.

I can only relate one success. Been mentioned before. I started
a squidoo page about sarah palin way back when. One of the
first. I realized squidoo was a great way to funnel traffic. I tweaked
it, promoted it, linked it, etc. Plus, it does have some pretty good
content. Like her or hate her, that is irrelevant. You can make
money from things you like as well as things you hate. Keyword
and popularity is the key. A handy thing is to look at what is getting
the most searches on a daily basis on yahoo or wherever. What do
you think will become popular? If you are trying to get a page
that is well-established as #1, it is an uphill battle. You may be better
off starting from scratch. FYI, for a search on either google or
yahoo, my squidoo palin page:
Sarah Palin Facts and Trivia
Comes up as #1 on both for sarah palin trivia.

I am taking my own advice and starting a page from scratch that
seems to be buried. New domain as well.

Seriously, if someone could answer your question, and actually get
your page to #1 on yahoo, it would take more effort than a forum
posted answer, with all due respect to the fantastic people I have
read here!

Paul

Hi

I am good at getting sites on the first page of google, however i was wondering if there are any specific strategies on how to do this for yahoo and msn.


Many Thanks

You need to be really careful dishing out advice like this. I would say that most people disagree with you.

Google, just from a market share of search, has the most volume, and most SEOs target Google. In my experience, if I optimize for Google, my sites get picked up, and rank equally, on Yahoo and MSN.

However, there is SOME truth to what you say. The key is you REALLY have to know your market well.

I did one job for a guy selling PEO contracts to small businesses, and sure enough, for some crazy reason or another, his PPC ads performed better on Yahoo than Google.

The moral of the story here is know your market. And what works for one person won't necessarily work for you.

uh... yeah right. Because we all know websites were around back in 1979.

You bring up a good point. Google has talked about this extensively where they favor new content in the rankings.

I don't know any official name for this, but I call it the Google new content "bump".

I've tracked this EXTENSIVELY, and I've found that I can get new pages ranked really highly, even overtaking established pages. However (and this is what I've been tracking) almost exactly two weeks later, the page ranking drops dramatically, often many pages (that's pages, not positions).

So, Google "bumps" your new page to the top for about two weeks, then it drops off.

Here's how I've been countering this lately... I wait about a week, and then I start throwing links at the page, several links every day for a week. I've noticed that the position drops less when I do this.

Good point!