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A question about Yahoo Search Rankings

by paulmuaddibb
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Hello,

Two days ago I have published a post on my selfcare related website. I have targeted a long tail keyword with a global search volume of 2000. Then, something weird happened. The post suddenly started to get traffic from Yahoo. I made a search (with the keyword that I targeted) and saw my post on the first page, in the 4th spot. This was happened in minutes. I mean, literally in minutes (I am sure that it was not even half an hour).

So, how can this happen?
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
#question #rankings #search #yahoo
  • Profile picture of the author castiblanco
    You should wait a couple of days in order to see if it keeps its rank, it should be Google dance (hopefully not), but if it keeps its rank or even goes in a higher position it is really weird but nice!
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by castiblanco View Post

      You should wait a couple of days in order to see if it keeps its rank, it should be Google dance (hopefully not), but if it keeps its rank or even goes in a higher position it is really weird but nice!
      Yeah. Sure. Unh huh. You rock!

      You answer a yahoo question with a google answer.

      Does anyone actually read posts before replying?

      There's something about freshness. Add to this time, date, place, news, etc.,
      that change results all the time.

      If you make a post for current time, date, place, etc., the freshness wears off.
      It does for long term strategies as well, but you pump that up with backlinks
      and other things.

      If your site builds trust and authority, your posts could make the
      charts rather quickly. With that, if posts warrant it, it could keep them
      at the top.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    It could be that your site already has high authority within that niche and/or that the competition for the search term to find that post on Yahoo! is extremely low.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulmuaddibb
    Thanks for the replies!

    The keyword is not a low competition keyword. The post suddenly ranked better than "prevention" and "livestrong" for the same keyword.

    I don't think that my site has high authority within my niche and I just noticed something similar about the same situation. That post is now on the first page at webcrawler as well as Yahoo. (but not Google and Bing yet)

    I really want to understand this situation, what did I do better for that post? I really don't know

    Of course, this is a good thing, and I can't complain, but it is very important for me to understand the reason why this has happened.

    Again, thanks for the replies!
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