So, you've just published your website? What is the first thing that comes in your mind? Google! "I want my site listed by Google!" Then? Yahoo!. Of course, every web developer wants to place his site on position number 1 to be visited by millions of users, to be assaulted with ad proposals and to receive thousands of euros.

You know, the truth hurts, but this is not possible. You can have your site listed on Google and Yahoo search, but you cannot expect it to represent a big hit on the Internet market.

Google or Yahoo (or, if you prefer, Yahoo and Google) represent two of the most popular search engines on the Internet so the smartest choice is to register your site to be listed by these two companies.

So, before you make a decision, you should know that there are some differences between Google and Yahoo that can influence your website's position into their listings.

Google checks and analyzes the links for their quality, so it's very important to verify your content before publishing it and apply some SEO techniques over the files. An example of these tricks is represented by the names of the files that should be short and to describe the object they contain.

Yahoo is different from Google, having as a priority the number of backlinks a website possesses. So, it could be very smart to talk to your friend to include a link to site on their webpages, enough to be placed on top in Yahoo's ranks.