Is there anything I can do to make my Yahoo! Group show up in an Internet search?

Question

What is it that makes certain sites show up high in Internet searches? Is it key words in the sites are do certain parts of HTML code play a part in how the website is 'found' by the search engine? Id there anything I can do with my Yahoo! Group to make it appear in web searches?

Answer 1

Whether or not a Yahoo Group appears in a Groups Search is based on keywords in the Description.

Whether or not a Yahoo Group appears in an internet search depends on the search engine.  Different search engines (Yahoo, Google, etc.) use different criteria about whether or not to list a page and how high to list it if it is listed.  Some use key words that show on the web page, some use the keywords content of an HTML META tag, and there might be other criteria that I'm not sure about.  As for how high to list a web page, some search engines, such as Google, base it on how often previous searchers click that link when doing a search on the entered key words.

Answer 2

whether or not a group appears on a web search depends on if the group is public or not.

key words for a yahoo search would depend on the category of the group, and key words to match that, and I have never seen a group found in a web search unless it was public

try creating other blog or web sites with the same type words/ topic of your group, and add the promote code to those sites.