Yahoo is a tease

[bsebastian]

I re-wrote my content and html tags yesterday to focus on "southwest orlando real estate" and earlier this afternoon I did a search in Yahoo for this keyword phrase and I was already the #2 result out of 227,000 results. Obviously I was ecstatic.

The ecstasy didn't last long though. I just checked this evening and now I'm nowhere to be found for the same search. I e-mailed Yahoo with the hopes of an explanation and will share it if and when I hear back.

Has anyone had the same experience with Yahoo?

[ResaleBroker]

Oh Yeah! All the time.

[yukii]

it will bounce around for about a week. no worries

[Oppenheimer Group]

Yahoo has been extremley volatile , more than normal, over the last weeks.

[MikeDammann]

dude, I hope they will respond. That would surprise me though

[bsebastian]

No response from Yahoo so far but I'm right back at #2 as of a few minutes ago. I know better than to get to excited though. Maybe my e-mail did the trick (not).

I was just concerned after reading another thread that I may have also been banned for some reason but it looks like I'm OK.

Thanks for the replies!

[MikeDammann]

hey, when it comes to yahoo ... don't expect anything ... seriously

[webmaster]

it certainly wasnt your email, its jsut normal Yahoo flux, its a good thing though it means you are showing positive movement and it may likely stick.

Care to share with the group your changes?

[kyle422]

it certainly wasnt your email, its jsut normal Yahoo flux, its a good thing though it means you are showing positive movement and it may likely stick.

Care to share with the group your changes?

My site is currently coming up on the first page number 10 of yahoo for my main keywords/anchor, "satellite beach florida real estate" for the last two weeks. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sat...web-t&toggle=1
Prior to that I was on the second page. Not much of a jump, but steadily going up on yahoo. I have optimized my site using the SEO-Guy SEO Tutorial (great lesson on SEO) but yahoo hasn't cached it since I've made my site changes. I bet once it get's cached it will go even higher thanks to Morgan and all the people on this forum's knowledge.
Kyle Hogan

[bsebastian]

I'm happy to say that I've not only made it back on the first page of Yahoo but I've been at #1 for a week now. My search term "Southwest Orlando Real Estate" is not nearly as competitive as "Orlando Real Estate". But I'd rather have 10 leads a month that know exactly what they are looking for and see that I cater especially to their needs than getting 100 leads a month that don't know anything about Orlando and see me and my site as just one of thousands of others targeting the Greater Orlando market. While its only in theory, I just think my conversion rate (and subsequently my bottom line) would increase tremendously. And that's why we're in business right?

As far as changes that I made, basically I just followed SEO Jason's script for Yahoo which was posted on another thread. Literally the next day... bang... first page of Yahoo.
Thanks Jason.