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October 18, 2006

Yahoo! Search Ranking Sites With No Linkage Data?

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has discussion on how Yahoo!, like other search engines, is able to locate and index sites that have no links to them. The weird thing appears that these sites not only are found, any many sites can be found through many different means, it is that they happen to rank for their own site name.

I wish I had more specifics, but since the last Yahoo! Search Update things at Yahoo! have been a bit weird.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.



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posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Optimization at October 18, 2006 7:49 AM Comments (1)

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Yahoo also spiders the HOMEPAGE settings on computers.
Here is an interesting example:

http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/37628.html

And it makes perfect sense to do this....setting a Homepage is the sincerest form of relevance validation you could conceivably give to a site

 

Posted by SEarch ENgines WEb at October 20, 2006 02:19

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