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I know many of you wondered why they dont rank anywhere in yahoo but are in top 10 in Google results. Most of the time yahoo's ranking criteria is same as google's but there are somethings which will prevent your site from ranking in yahoo

Here is a simple checklist criteria that you need to make sure for your no rankings problems with yahoo:

1. Make sure your site is not penalized or banned by yahoo, Yahoo is very good at doing this they are more tougher than google when it comes to penalty. Check whether your site gets indexed in yahoo make sure your pages are there. If you just see your homepage and not your inner pages then its still a problem. If you feel that your site is banned or penalized file for a reinclusion into yahoo. We do offer a reinclusion services in our company for Google, yahoo and MSN. We don't have any tie up with any search engine but we will make sure we follow all their guidelines clean up every single possible mess with the site and submit it to the for a reconsideration request. Have a banned site in yahoo or feel its banned feel free to contact us through our contact form and please explain what you did or doing on your site,

2. Remember to have backlinks from sites which yahoo feels are important. Both search engines dont value backlinks the same way. For example yahoo places a lot of weight on their directory link much more than google. So you can possibly try adding your site to yahoo directory and see the impact.

3. See if your site has any redirect issues if your site has redirect problems and yahoo's crawler is unable to pickup then still your site can be in trouble. Make sure to check all possible external links coming into your site for wrong 302 type redirects. If you feel suspicious about a link hurting you contact the webmaster and tell them to remove your link. Google has become very efficient in handling redirects I dont think yahoo is doing the same way.

4. Add a sitemap and link it to your homepage ( if you dont already have one ) as well as submit a sitemap to yahoo through yahoo Site Explorer it might show some difference.

5. You can fine your presense felf to yahoo by featuring in their articles, added to their newsletter etc.

6. Make sure your Web hosting company don't have any problem with yahoo's crawler sometimes this could a problem where yahoo's crawler have problem accessing your site because of bad DNS resolving with your hosting company.

7. Make sure you dont do anything against their guidelines on your site check for yahoo's search engine guidelines policy

8. If you are an affiliate site you need to be careful, Yahoo don't enjoy affiliate sites in their index.

9. Yahoo loves content rich sites unique content and not a directory type of site with millions of URLs without any added value to the users.

10. Last but not the least check for potential violations of yahoo's guidelines on your site which google didnt detect but yahoo did. Yahoo is more efficient and strict when it comes to some search engine spam make sure its not there on your site. Also check for any potential restrictions in .htaccess or robots.txt or other areas where you might cause problems for yahoo's crawler.

Good luck
Search ENgine Genie Blog Team,

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