I don't see any replies to your post so I thought I would share my opinion on Yahoo. First, they are a valuable source of traffic even though they are not in the same league as Google regarding volumes so you should definitely consider them in you SEO plans. That being said, you can typically optimize for Google and Yahoo will follow.

This is not the case in every situation, but in most. Three things that I have noticed Yahoo pays closer attention to than Google is Keywords in your URL, Keyword Density on pages and you guessed it Keywords in your Anchor text for links.

I have successfully got new sites ranked in the top 5 in yahoo with no external back links and only using the three above optimization techniques. This will not happen in huge markets, but if you start with this as your base and then work on your internal link structure along with back links you will do fine in Yahoo, but more importantly in Google.

As with anything SEO related what works for one might not for another. I wish you best of luck and hope you get the information you need.

Regards,

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