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March 28, 2006

A Few Tweaks to Bump You Up a Notch or Two

The Yahoo Blog has a weather report that their index just got updated:

We completed an index update over the weekend. As a result, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index. You might also be seeing a temporary spike in crawler activity. As these things go, all this should stabilize in the near future. Meantime, if you have any comments about the new index, please let us know.

Haven't seen a big change myself, but check your keywords and see what happened.

Yahoo is a fun engine for SEOs, since rankings seem to be a little more straigtforward there. Want to boost your page's rank for a given keyword? Slip that keyword into your page copy three or four more times. Beefing up your keyword density works suprisingly well. Just give it a shot and you'll see.

Pretty much SEO 101, but it works on Yahoo nicely. If nothing else I've found it to be an easy way to move from page 2 up to page 1.

Want to really rock your Yahoo rankings? Buy some big ass run of site links. But it might come back to bite you in the Google SERPs.

Speaking of Google SERPs, my internal linking test moved me from #18 to #13, so not too shabby. Of course, every site, page, topic and keyword is different, so what's worked for me (on fairly uncompetitive keywords) won't necessarily translate into results for everyone, especially when you're talking about results this specific.

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