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I get great traffic from Google but Yahoo is at about a 20 to 1 ratio on visitors.

Is there anything I should do to increase Yahoo traffic?  I bought a Yahoo Directory listing about 3 months ago but it did no good.

Thanks,

Boo

I think there is something you can do with the old and new sitemap that helps too.  It is on this forum somewhere.

My DA and PA both went down 1 point also.

Long tail keywords on next level sub pages may have a big influence.  Also work on optimizing conversions. Page one is okay but #1 and #2 are huge for traffic and #3 is okay.  4-6 not that great.

I am just the opposition.  Ranking very good for Google but hardly not at all on Yahoo and Bing.

Boo

Thanks for the references Keri!

Boo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

I saw were rand made this comment about 2 months ago.

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I would do it only for the most trusted of brand name directories - Yahoo!, Better Business Bureau, and maybe Best of the Web, but probably very little else.

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One website with cities n url's for other pages is strongest I would think.

You can buy 2-3 good premium directory links and it should help.  Reputable links such as Yahoo.com, Business.com and BOTW.com are good if you are a new website.

Poo

Jake Madison mentioned this one time.

Any Redirect will lose value. A 301 loses a portion of your juice and a 302 gives you nothing. What the canonical tag does is redirect the authority of the page with the tag to the target page you want to hold the authority (usually the parent page, be it Root Domain, primary landing page or a subcategory page)

Google has a new fantastic tool I think everyone should know about called Google Tag Manager. It creates a container under the that you can fill with any tag, Google or non-Google tags. It is fantastic because you don't need your programer to go in and change anything and no need to access code. It gives the power to you to add and remove tags and define the parameters of each one you put in place. in addition it builds the tag for you if you aren't a code wizard. this makes the world of SEO and OSO shake due to the rainbows and sunshine of not having t bother your programer with little fixes like tag adding and removal.

I hope this helped!

Cheers!

Here is what my computer programmer told me...what do you think? (I was mistaken and thought the links were from our advanced search option but they are just links from other sites that are more authoritative than ours I guess. There's a few things here to address, I'm going to try to put it simply. If you want more details I can expound on it:

I think you aren't giving enough information here, and it could potentially cause people to give you bad advice. First off, URLs (generally speaking) aren't meant to be user friendly, unless the user is going to actually type it in. In your case, URLs with %20 in them are never meant to be typed, so it doesn't matter. Second, we don't supply URLs from the site using %20, so we can't do anything about those anyways. One possibility is that websites who are linking to yours have an algorithm that converts hyphens to spaces... and spaces get converted to %20 by many browsers and other internet services.

Second: Don't forget that when we first built the site, we didn't have the vanity URLs (the specialty names)... so the category links with the hyphens-turned-spaces-turned-%20 could very well just be happening because those pages are so much older than the vanity URLs, also, our outbound feeds used to use the old URLs too, so if we provided a feed to a site with those links, and they haven't bothered to update, then those links are still going to be out there. Google sees the links on your site, but they also see the links that come inbound from other sites, and that's why google still has the old URLs listed. The best way to fix this is to use the canonical meta link, to explain to google that the authoritative source is the vanity URL.

Takeshi,

If I no index my higher ranking search links then I will not be ranked as high in google because those will fall completely off right.  Are you saying just noindex them...let them fall out of the rankings and then focus long term on getting the main pages ranked above the search pages in order to avoid panda penalties. (I didn't even know I was doing anything wrong)

Boo

I read that Google will "honor" these tags if your website has two url's with duplicate content.  The duplicate content does not show up in my SEOmoz crawls report but they do in the search engines and many of "non authoritative links" that are generated from my search feature j(ugly url's with % ...not real user friendly)  are ranking higher than the "good URL" links.

So if I do the canonical tags I guess my higher ranking bad urls will drop.   I even read that google might even completely overlook the links.  I read somewhere that the best way to do this is with a 301 redirect...is that correct? I m ranking pretty good with my main keyword terms so I am afraid to make changes not knowing the effect. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Boo

Wow the link is quite an analysis....thanks!

Yep..."on page"...:)  I see it now.  

I think URL's with key words are second behind title tags.  (The seem to show up strong. I will have to research all those other things....I have a lot of work to do!

My 2nd big key word dropped from #2 to 7-8 and now it is finally back up to two.  I was so excited to reach #2...when the fall happened I just thought well time to start doing more SEO.

I am still pretty new at this over the past year the 4 below have made a big difference for me.

#1 Links, Links, Links....Industry specific and .edu, gov and .org are good. Must be quality links.

#2 Exact word Domains or Partial word domains. (Has worked well for me)

#3 Title tags are big

#4 I think anchor text is pretty big too..not sure if that is the same as alt text.

I am sure Chris Kent knows more than I do but in my experience those 4 are pretty big and I am happy with my keyword rankings for my 1st year on the internet.  I have a lot more to learn and hope that more people will answer.  I had no idea that meta descriptions were that powerful.  I will have to research that more.

I read somewhere that the meta keywords did matter for some search engines still like Yahoo but not for Google. Not sure where I read it...maybe I am mistaken though.

Keri,

I have only asked a few questions over the past year but they were excellent responses.  I appreciate the high quality answers from professionals at SEOmoz.  I will miss this service and valued it greatly but I am sure you will add additional top notch features in the future.

Thanks

Boo

I just dropped from #2 for my main keyword to #5 and am not sure why.

My companies Ranking Metrics compared to top 5

Page Authority:#2, MozRank:#1, MozTrust:#1, MT/MR:#1, Total Links: #1, Internal Links:#1, External Links: #1, Followed Links:#1, No Follow Links: #1, Linking Root Domains:#1, OnPageAnalysis Grade: "A", Broad Keyword usage: Yes, Broad keyword in document: