Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'yahoo seo'

Again, Yahoo seemed to have quietly updated Site Explorer to include new data. The new data is on the summary page and includes: Key TermsDelicious ActivitiesTop Delicious TagsSearchMonkey Objects Here is a screen capture of what I think are the...

Posted on October 19, 2009 9:35 AM

Last week, I reported that Yahoo dropped the meta keywords tag and stopped using it completely. Remember, I told you that I wasn't convinced when I heard that and I asked the Senior Director of Search at Yahoo if he...

Posted on October 16, 2009 8:18 AM

Update: New story named Yahoo's Senior Director of Search Got It Wrong, Yahoo Uses Meta Keywords Still. It is official, no major search engines use the meta keywords tag for ranking purposes in their search algorithms. Yahoo's, matter of fact,...

Posted on October 8, 2009 8:41 AM

I was looking at Yahoo Site Explorer when I was reviewing the dynamic URL tool earlier and noticed a new beta link available to sites that are validated or authenticated in Site Explorer. The new tool is named "Top Queries"...

Posted on September 17, 2009 9:07 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that folks are noticing that Yahoo Site Explorer has updated the link counts for the tool. I do not typically track these numbers, but many do. So if you do, definitely take a look and...

Posted on January 9, 2009 8:25 AM

Yesterday I got upset that Yahoo Search Still Not Listening to 301 Redirects. Sometime yesterday afternoon, we were getting reports that this is now resolved. An updated WebmasterWorld thread has the individual upset with how was handling those redirects in...

Posted on December 10, 2008 7:59 AM

This is crazy already, we reported this time and time again. Yahoo Search is not always listening to a simple 301 redirect. We reported this in September and the issue continued to linger on month to month. In fact, many...

Posted on December 9, 2008 8:24 AM

There are reports from WebmasterWorld that Yahoo Search is shuffling their search results. This is interesting, because we normally do not have a Yahoo Search update until the first week of the month. The last update was on September 6th...

Posted on September 29, 2008 7:52 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that several webmasters have noticed that even though they are redirecting their non www to the www version, Yahoo is still listing their non-www as the main result. This comes even after months of redirecting the...

Posted on September 22, 2008 6:34 AM

I am seeing major reports on a Yahoo Search update at WebmasterWorld right now. The timing makes sense, it is just about one month from the August 2008 Yahoo update. I would not be surprised if we see a post...

Posted on September 8, 2008 8:32 AM

Yahoo conducted an update to their search engine over the weekend. We reported on the early discussion around the update and it then became official when the Yahoo Search Blog confirmed the update later in the day. But since then,...

Posted on August 6, 2008 8:20 AM

We have substantial reports from webmasters and SEOs in both WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums of a major Yahoo Search update. This update was unannounced by Yahoo and has hit webmasters by surprise. The last update was on July 17th but...

Posted on August 4, 2008 7:34 AM

Let me take you back a few steps before getting into this update. On June 30th, Yahoo announced an update that did not update any of the search results around that date. Several days later, around July 7th, webmasters began...

Posted on July 17, 2008 8:27 AM

Eric Enge Interviews Yahoo's Priyank Garg has an extremely detailed and educational interview with Yahoo's director of product management for Yahoo! Search Technology. Priyank Garg is a great guy - I have known him for the past couple years at...

Posted on July 8, 2008 7:53 AM

When Yahoo Search announced the update on June 30th, it went very unnoticed, as if there was no update. But things have changed over the holiday weekend. Starting on Friday, July 4th, in the morning, some webmasters began reporting fluctuations...

Posted on July 7, 2008 7:01 AM

Yahoo has announced yet another Yahoo Search index update. Yahoo notified us that we "may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index." But as of this morning, no SEO has noticed any significant changes with their rankings....

Posted on July 1, 2008 7:35 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

Yahoo Search typically does a search update once a month. Yahoo has announced last night that they have pushed out a new update that may result in "ranking changes and page shuffling in the index." Did we, the Search Engine...

Posted on May 28, 2008 8:05 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 HighRankings Forum thread asks when did Yahoo stop grouping search results from the same domain together? We reported on an issue with Google not grouping certain results a few weeks ago, but it is rare to see Google not...

Posted on April 15, 2008 7:54 AM

This weekend, we have reports coming from WebmasterWorld of major ranking changes at Yahoo Search. It appears Yahoo has started an algorithm and indexing update at their search engine. Currently there are no "weather reports" with the status of an...

Posted on April 14, 2008 7:08 AM

Yahoo Search announced an update will be taking place today. They wrote the typical line: We're in the process of rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon,...

Posted on March 4, 2008 8:05 AM

The January 2008 Yahoo Search Update is reportedly now fizzling out. A WebmasterWorld thread says the results are beginning to look stable and the update seems to be settling out. Typically with Yahoo updates, the results initially look out of...

Posted on January 29, 2008 8:01 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

The Yahoo Search Blog announced yesterday a new crawler behavior for the newly trained Slurp (Yahoo's search crawler). So instead of Slurp running around your site like an untamed animal, it is not more proper and polite. I looked through...

Posted on August 23, 2007 10:04 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports a recent change in how Yahoo handles displaying a banned site within Yahoo Site Explorer. In the past, Yahoo showed only the home page of a banned site in Yahoo Site Explorer. Now, there are early...

Posted on July 13, 2007 7:17 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

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

Yahoo! Site Explorer, Yahoo!'s Webmaster tool that details your index count and link count for your pages and site, has released badges. These Yahoo! Site Explorer Badges can be placed on your site to promote how many links you have...

Posted on January 30, 2007 7:03 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

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

Yahoo!, please enable a method of requesting that you do not display the Yahoo! Directory title in the search results. I mean, I know I like my title, because it is cute, but still, I rather the title listed in...

Posted on August 30, 2006 8:14 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

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