Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'yahoo search engine optimization'

A Google Groups thread discusses a classic SEO challenge, passing link popularity for tracking URLs. Honestly, I cannot sum up the issue better than the original poster: Our site uses query string variables in our URL's to track traffic and...

Posted on October 30, 2008 8:29 AM

Yahoo Site Explorer seems to have pushed out their beta design to everyone now. The new look, is not just visual, it also contains these new data points: + Site URL + Number of pages known + Number of pages...

Posted on October 3, 2008 8:41 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Yahoo Site Explorer has done a major update to their linkage data reports. Most webmasters are reporting huge drops in the number of links reported today versus the days before. The linkage drops are...

Posted on September 3, 2008 8:24 AM

A new WebmasterWorld thread has complaints that Yahoo removes the trailing slash from the URLs, possibly causing 404 errors on the receiving site. This is not new, I complained about this issue back in 2004 and it is still an...

Posted on June 3, 2008 9:43 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting a possible bug with the Yahoo Site Explorer tool. The webmaster reports that when trying to delete the https URLs of his site from the Yahoo index via Yahoo Site Explorer, it tries to delete...

Posted on May 15, 2008 8:15 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread has dozens of reports that Yahoo Search's crawler, Yahoo Slurp, took some bad medicine recently. Many are reporting that they see the crawler spidering their sites like never before. Some times they have seen the spider...

Posted on March 31, 2008 7:48 AM

In August, Yahoo announced a new crawl behavior for Slurp, Yahoo's web crawler. The new crawl behavior was suppose to tame the crawler to go through your site in a more relaxed and efficient manner for both the crawler and...

Posted on October 17, 2007 6:38 AM

I am seeing reports from both WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that Yahoo is not supporting their own NOYDIR tag. The NOYDIR is a tag you can use to tell Yahoo not to display your Yahoo Directory title in the Yahoo...

Posted on September 5, 2007 7:30 AM

The Yahoo! Search Blog announced last night that they have done an update. That update now appears to be complete. We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process...

Posted on June 7, 2007 7:23 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread keeps lingering on since March 15th of this year. The topic is that some SEOs and Webmasters are asking why they can't seem to rank well in Yahoo Search. The same webmasters tend to be doing just...

Posted on May 17, 2007 9:40 AM

Yesterday afternoon, Yahoo! announced support for a new attribute that Webmasters and SEOs can use on their pages to help aid the search spiders determine what content is the most important content on the page, by excluding extraneous or irrelevant...

Posted on May 3, 2007 7:20 AM

On January 19th we reported a Yahoo! Search Update was underway. Now, recent updates to that WebmasterWorld thread suggest that Yahoo! is rolling back that update, to the previous state. On February 14, starting at message number 3252410, textex asked:...

Posted on February 15, 2007 7:43 AM

Middle of December we reported that Yahoo! said they would be adding support for a no Yahoo Directory tag, similar to the NOODP tag, by the end of this month. Tim Mayer of Yahoo! has posted an update in the...

Posted on January 31, 2007 8:19 AM

As, I reported yesterday, Yahoo! announced that they launched new features for their Site Explorer Tool. As an FYI, Site Explorer went live September 29, 2005, it was the first of its kind, until Google came out with Sitemaps, followed...

Posted on January 31, 2007 8:07 AM

January 15th, Ben reported that Yahoo Search Replacing Site Titles in Search Results Listings, and then on January 17th, I dug into it more with Danny to come up that we believe the titles were from anchor text, specifically internal...

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:08 AM

Let me start off by saying, I am having a really hard time finding juicy threads this week and this morning, I am digging really deep, but still can't find good ones. It must be the holiday season... Two posts,...

Posted on December 28, 2006 8:08 AM

Yahoo! Search is currently undergoing an update. If you noticed your rankings shuffle around, it is true. A WebmasterWorld thread first spotted these changes yesterday morning. Tim Mayer of Yahoo! said; There will be more changes tomorrow. Things should settle...

Posted on December 12, 2006 7:11 AM

Last month Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! Back SiteMaps Protocol, so it makes sense to begin converting your sitemaps to one standardized file. One such webmaster did that, submitted the new file to Yahoo! and claimed that Yahoo!'s Site Explorer dropped...

Posted on December 5, 2006 7:34 AM

The question at a WebmasterWorld forum is does registering your domain name for 10 years, instead of one year, help you rank better in Google? Reading the thread, it appears that most senior members in the thread, feel that it...

Posted on November 21, 2006 8:12 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member not understanding why Google has not indexed his PDF files. To make a long story short, Google did index his PDF files, but I thought it would make a nice quick...

Posted on November 10, 2006 6:51 AM

Thursday night, last week, the Yahoo! Search Blog wrote Yahoo! Search Crawler (Yahoo! Slurp) - Supporting wildcards in robots.txt. I am honestly a bit shocked by the SEO community's response to this, or lack thereof. I have spotted two threads...

Posted on November 6, 2006 7:14 AM

Not only did we get support for the NOODP tag but we also have an official weather update for the activity we have seen Monday, 10/22. Webmasters and SEOs are noticing the search results shuffling over at Yahoo! Search. So...

Posted on October 25, 2006 7:12 AM

The Yahoo! Search Blog announced support of the NOODP tag, which enables site owners to tell Yahoo! to not display the ODP title and description in the Yahoo! search results. This is a direct response from webmasters communicating in the...

Posted on October 25, 2006 7:06 AM

The Yahoo! Search moderator, martinibuster, at WebmasterWorld reports a lot of changes in the rankings at Yahoo! Search. Some say it is a reversal of the Oct. 6th Yahoo! Update, but it doesn't appear that way to me. There is...

Posted on October 23, 2006 7:30 AM

It has been over 24 hours since the most recent Yahoo! Search Update and some of the threads have been getting some traction. All in all, it appears to me that the Yahoo! update was a step backwards, from what...

Posted on October 12, 2006 7:11 AM

Last night on the sixth edition of the search pulse Tim Mayer came on the show to remark on my Request To Yahoo! To Add Support For No Directory Tag. He said that in about a week, Yahoo! like Google...

Posted on October 11, 2006 7:33 AM

There are some early reports of a Yahoo! Search update or algorithmic change. A WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums thread have reports of shifts taking place. Of course, you see that those posting, currently at least, are unhappy with the result...

Posted on August 25, 2006 9:26 AM

There is a Cre8asite Forums discussion on having two sites on the same niche topic, residing on the same server, with the two domains resolving to the same IP address. Let me quote EGOL on this; This is based upon...

Posted on August 14, 2006 7:46 AM

Detlev Johnson is moderating this new session. Can you rank well in all the search engines? Or do you need to pick and choose. This session will be a SEO session on that topic. Aaron Wall from SEO Book is...

Posted on August 8, 2006 12:48 PM

Every now and then on an off day, I revisit the Big Blue Pineapple Chair page I have on this site. Why? Well, it gives me an idea of how well (1) this site is doing in the various search...

Posted on August 6, 2006 9:54 AM

Two different threads at two different forums are complaining about how Yahoo! is indexing and listing in the search results pages, URLs with tracking codes. Let's pull out one specific example, from the Search Engine Watch Forums thread. The URL...

Posted on August 4, 2006 7:18 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has some interesting and almost unbelievable conversations of Webmasters stating that Yahoo! cares less today about the visible content on the page then it ever did before. Here are some quotes: The suggestion put out there. More...

Posted on August 3, 2006 8:19 AM