Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'yahoo seo'

Insights Into Yahoo Search From Interview With Priyank Garg

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...

Yahoo Search Begins To Update

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...

Yahoo's June Search Update Goes Unnoticed, For Now

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....

Yahoo Still Trimming Off Trailing Slash, Causing Webmaster Headaches

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...

May 2008 Yahoo Search Subtle Update

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...

Yahoo Site Explorer Mishandling HTTPS Vs. HTTP Protocols?

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...

Corrected: Yahoo Search Stops Grouping Results From Same Domain?

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...

Yahoo Search April 2008 'Tax Day' Update

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...

Yahoo Search March 2008 Update?

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,...

Yahoo Search January '08 Update Complete

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...

Yahoo Slurp Taking a Break? Reported Slow Crawling Activity

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...

Yahoo Search Update Underway - New Slurp Crawl Patterns

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...

Does Yahoo Lower Case Banned Site's Page Titles in Site Explorer?

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...

Yahoo! Search Update Underway - June 2007

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...

Pages Ranking Poorly in Yahoo Search But Well in Google?

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...

Yahoo! Still Working on No Yahoo Directory Title Tag

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...

Yahoo! Site Explorer Adds New Features: Change Your Yahoo! Password

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...

Yahoo! Site Explorer Wants You To Show Off Your Links With Badges

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...

Yahoo! Search Update 12/11 Confirmed

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...

New Sitemaps Protocol May Hurt Your Listings in Yahoo! Search?

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...

Does Registering A Domain Name for 10 Years Help Search Ranking?

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...

Can A Search Engine Like Google.com Index My PDF Files?

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...

Yahoo! Slurping Wildcards Via Robots.txt File

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...

Yahoo! Search Weather Report 10/24

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...

Yahoo! Search Now Supports NOODP Tag

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...

A Look at The October '06 Yahoo! Update

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...

Yahoo! To Add NOODP Tag Support But Not No-Yahoo-Directory Tag Support

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...

Yahoo! Please Enable a No Yahoo! Directory Tag

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...

Yahoo! Search Update Underway?

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...

Can You Please Them All? (Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask.com)

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...

The Obscure Query Revisited: A Look at SEM Forum Discussion

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...

Yahoo! Search Bit Too Dynamic URL Happy?

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...

Yahoo! Search Not Ranking Based on Content of a Page?

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...


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