3 word phrases on yahoo

Hawaii007 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 05:00 PM

I have a few websites that rank well on Google and Msn, but on Yahoo there seems to be a problem.
I come up 2 or 3 page for my 3 word phrase but If I add another word which is common to my competition I come up 1st or 2nd.
Can anyone explain this to me, should i change my title to just the 3 words?

**incrediblehelp** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 01:20 PM

Can you post the exact links?

dann · #3 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawaii007

I have a few websites that rank well on Google and Msn, but on Yahoo there seems to be a problem.

A simple answer would be that Google and MSN rely more on backlink text to your site than Y!.

Yahoo! counts links for sure but not to the extent of G or MS, freshness and onpage relevance is they key to Y!

simonbuxton132 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 06:17 PM

Odd thing with Google is that if I miss spell one of my keywords I come up number one, spell them correct and I'm 7. By adding more words I am also higher on google, but take a word away and the competition stay on page one, yet our site floats down the list onto the bottom of page 1 or page 2.

We have virtually no back links.

Yahoo is no where - it only trawls a page every other day (from our logs), yet google is our top visitor!

I think it has more than just back links, it is also down to the differences in the search engines placement - because of this we have re-worked our title and description to be more robot friendly without loosing readbility.

I also noticed, despite Google's claims on how clever its algorithms are, that a student in a US university was top 3 no matter what you typed - his page just had three of every word in the dictionary: but it appears it only lasted a few days - his site wasn't that interestings!

Regards,

seo4china · #5 (**permalink**) 12-16-2007, 07:14 AM

What about getting a few more backlinks to see if that will help?

pchauhan · #6 (**permalink**) 12-17-2007, 10:55 PM

Hi

As per discussion . i have same thing in my sites.. one of my sites ranks in google and msn in top ten.. but that doesnt mranks in the yahoo. .. what i have another site which ranks in yahoo and MSN but not in Google.....Diffenece in both site is that backlinks and sites which is ranking in yahoo has an article section and other dont have ... will you webamaster suggest me that.. this is tha exact reason or there may another reason ????