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Yahoo SERP Checker

Fetch Yahoo Search results for a keyword in a chosen region and see where your domain ranks among them.

Check a Yahoo ranking

One Yahoo result page is fetched from our server for the region you choose; redirect links are decoded to the real URLs.

(01) About this tool

What the Yahoo SERP Checker does

Yahoo Search still carries a few percent of searches in the United States, Japan and among older desktop users, and its results come from Bing's index with Yahoo's own layout, ads and ranking adjustments. Sites that depend on Bing traffic should check Yahoo too, because the positions are close but not identical, and a Yahoo result page shows fewer organic results above the fold.

This checker fetches a Yahoo result page for your keyword from the regional Yahoo site you choose, reads the organic results from the HTML and lists them with their titles, snippets and real URLs. Yahoo hides destination URLs behind r.search.yahoo.com redirect links; the tool decodes them so each result shows where it actually points. If you enter a domain, the tool marks its first position and every other page of the domain in the list.

As with Bing, Yahoo may answer an automated request with a page that has no result list. The tool reports that plainly instead of showing a stale result; a retry a minute later usually works. Positions are organic only: ads, news boxes and image strips are not counted.

(02) How to use

Step by step

  1. 01Enter the keyword as a searcher would type it.
  2. 02Enter the domain to find, for example example.com. Subdomains count as a match.
  3. 03Choose the regional Yahoo site. Yahoo UK, India, Canada and the others return different orders.
  4. 04Click Check rank and read the position above the full list of results.
(03) FAQ

Common questions

Mostly. Yahoo has licensed Bing's web index and ranking since 2010, but it applies its own layout and some reordering, and the regional Yahoo sites differ from Bing's markets. Expect the same pages in a slightly different order, and more ads at the top of the page.

Yahoo routes every click through r.search.yahoo.com to record it. The destination is in the RU parameter, URL-encoded. The tool decodes it so the list shows the real URL of each result, which is also what you need when comparing against your own pages.

The tool asks for fifty but Yahoo serves a single page of about ten organic results to a fresh visitor, sometimes fewer when a news or video block takes a slot. A domain outside that list is not on the first page in that region.

Not separately. Everything that improves your Bing ranking also improves Yahoo, since the index is shared. Use this checker to confirm the two agree and to notice if one of them has dropped a page, which can point to a crawl or rendering problem rather than a ranking issue.

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