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June 14, 2007

Yahoo! Appears to Order Your Links in Site Explorer by Quality

Yahoo's site explorer tool is a great tool to check your links as well as competitor links. A WebmasterWorld notes something fairly clear to most users of the tool, that Yahoo! seems to order the links in order of some quality metric.

Let's take a look at the inlinks to the home page of this site. The links consist from the Official Google Blog, the Yahoo Search Blog, Techmeme, Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land, OakWebWorks.com (a weird one), Ask.com Blog, Search Engine Blog, and then more links from the Google Blog. As you dig deeper into the links, the order may not seem to be so apparent.

WebmasterWorld senior member, SteveB said, "Yeah, the first batch have always included the most valued or whatever. However, #750 seems definitely not prioritized over 50,000 other links."

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Optimization at June 14, 2007 7:25 AM Comments (3)

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Too bad Google doesn't do this anymore. Their public link command used to way back when.

 

Posted by Chris at June 14, 2007 08:13

I noticed this just a few weeks ago on a site that has about 15 wikipedia links. They're first, followed by some PR 3 domains. Last in line is a lot of forum topics where a user has put a link to my site in their signature.

 

Posted by corey at June 14, 2007 09:07

Yes, it's clear that there's some kind of quality-based ordering going on, but I think a better question is whether they're ordered by the amount of juice they pass or by their "Yahoo PR." I think it's the former, because one of my sites has a PR9 link appearing far beneath a number of PR2-PR4 pages.

 

Posted by SEO Loser at June 15, 2007 13:44

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