Yahoo Search Submit Basic questions

[freetutes]

Hi everyone,

Has anybody tried or used Yahoo search submit basic? Recently I submitted one of my portions of the site to Yahoo SSB. I got approved and link is now submitted. The thing is I had the top rankings ranges between 1-3 in yahoo for some keywords and after submitting the URL to Yahoo search submit basic, I see that it doesn't rank for any of the keywords that are targeted.

URL was submitted about 10 days ago. Sometimes this may be happening since it is still new. Does anybody have any experience with Yahoo search submit basic? Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

Thank you.

[Dubbya]

Check the listing title and description in the Yahoo! directory. If they're using something other than what you'd normally submit to another directory, which is often the case, you could logically expect that you'd take a dive in their SERPs.

Because they're sticky about the site title it's tough to gain a competitive advantage.

[freetutes]

Originally Posted by Dubbya

Check the listing title and description in the Yahoo! directory. If they're using something other than what you'd normally submit to another directory, which is often the case, you could logically expect that you'd take a dive in their SERPs.

Because they're sticky about the site title it's tough to gain a competitive advantage.

The page title and description of the URL submitted was highly keyword targeted. Following is the URL I submitted.

http://www.freetutes.com/systemanalysis

Before I submitted this URL to Yahoo SSB, I got #1 ranking for keywords system analysis tutorial, systems analysis tutorial, system analysis and design tutorial and for some more keywords. I wanted to get traffic for keywords system analysis, software engineering, system analysis design and systems analysis. That's why I submitted the URL to Yahoo SSB. Unfortunately I am loosing the traffic that I got earlier.

If you have any concerns regarding the page title and description which actually prevents Yahoo from listing my site on top 10, please let me know and I would appreciate your reply regarding this.

[Dubbya]

Taking a quick look at your code, I do have a couple of questions:

What's with all the redundant meta tags? Rating is not at all important. Revisit after? Let them come as often as they like! The robots meta tag? Indexing pages is what they do by default. That tag is not required at all.

Why do you care if the page is cached. Being that it's informational and not likely to change, I'd think you would definitely want the SE's to cache it.

<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="14 DAYS">
<META name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL,INDEX">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

Being that your site consists of a limited number of tutorials, it's going to be tough to rank well against entire sites devoted specifically to software engineering unless you can develop a section devoted to software engineering and get a bunch of inbound links to your content.

Looking at your Domain info, it's still a pretty young domain. Let it age for a while, acquire some more inbound links, add more content pages and things will improve. Again, you are competing with some well established sites for some pretty valuable search phrases. You'll need to establish the site as a resource before it starts ranking well consistently.

I wonder why you've opted to default your home page to visualbasic.freetutes.com instead of simply freetutes.com. Any specific reason? I'd tend to think this might pigeonhole you into search results related specifically to visual basic when software engineering and design can encompass so many other programming languages.

Regarding the Yahoo! listing, it reads a little too spammy.

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System Analysis and Design - Software Engineering Tutorial
Systems analysis and Design. Complete Introductory tutorial for Software Engineering. Explained with examples and case studies
System Analysis and Design - Software Engineering Tutorial

I'd recommend a few small changes.

System Analysis and Design - Software Engineering Tutorial
Introductory tutorials for Software Engineering. Explained with examples and case studies in software programming and development.
System Analysis and Design - Software Engineering Tutorial

Why recommend the changes? It reads more naturally and doesn't seem to focus solely on your targeted search phrase. It's already in the page title and <h1> headings and seems to me like too much of a good thing. Better to provide a more generalized page description and target a more broad range of search phrases than to overdo it around one single phrase.

That's my .02

[freetutes]

Hi Dubbya,

Thank you for great SEO tips and showing me the potential problems in my website. I have updated my webpages in accordance with your ideas. As you are wondering about redirecting freetutes.com to visualbasic.freetutes.com, I'll give a brief explanation. I planned to put lot of programming related tutorials and couldn't do it as it consumed me a lot of time. So first I decided to start with visual basic and put it. Instead of putting visual basic site in freetutes.com, I put it in visualbasic.freetutes.com considering which would not affect the pages indexed in search engines as the site is updated. In the future it is going to be a link from freetutes.com home page to visualbasic.freetutes.com, and links for other programming related tutorials.