Search Engine Guidelines: Yahoo Webmaster Guidelines

• Yahoo Webmaster Guidelines

These guidelines outline the quality standards for website inclusion in Yahoo Search.

Rules

• Google, Bing and Yahoo recommend that all pages have a title element.
• Google, Bing and Yahoo recommend that all pages have a non-blank title element.
• title element is too long for Yahoo. Yahoo recommends limiting your page title to 67 characters.
• No meta description tag found. Use a description tag that accurately describes the contents of a web page.
• Search engines may penalize hidden single pixel links.
• Search engines may penalize invisible text where text color is nearly identical to the background color.
• Search engines may penalize invisible text where text is too small to be seen.