Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'yahoo 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...

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

I am seeing early signs of reports of a Yahoo Search index and algorithm update. The last update at Yahoo Search was on December 3rd of last year, so we are well due an update. We have threads at both...

Posted on January 18, 2008 6:57 AM

It has been just about a month since Yahoo Search last did an index and algorithm update. It appears there is some early chatter at WebmasterWorld about a possible update that started rolling out on December 1st. Some reported seeing...

Posted on December 3, 2007 7:10 AM

It appears that some folks are buzzing about a new update taking place at Yahoo Search. A DigitalPoint Forums thread has one person documenting a major change in traffic from Yahoo: Just like every morning I am checking my SERP's...

Posted on October 31, 2007 7:21 AM

There seems to be a major update taking place at Yahoo! Search today. A WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums thread has chatter on it from SEOs. One member said that his rankings "jumped from 168 to 29." But is this update...

Posted on September 26, 2007 10:27 AM

There are early reports via WebmasterWorld of fluctuations in the rankings at Yahoo Search. The reports came over the weekend where some have seen large jumps or declines in rankings within Yahoo. Yes, I had a drop from #7 to...

Posted on September 10, 2007 7:54 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

Over a week ago Yahoo announced a search update, telling us to expect "fresh web data and crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days." New reports are coming from WebmasterWorld of more changes to the Yahoo Search...

Posted on July 31, 2007 7:08 AM

Last Thursday, July 19th, the Yahoo! Search Blog announced that they have started rolling out an update. We've been rolling out some changes to our fresh web data and crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We...

Posted on July 23, 2007 7:33 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

The Yahoo! Search Blog posted a weather report informing us that they are updating their search index. We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking...

Posted on April 5, 2007 1:30 AM

Very early reports via WebmasterWorld about a possible Yahoo! Search link update. Funny that Google seems to be doing a link update today as well. Anyone notice a charp reduction in backlinks? Mine have dropped from almost 6,000 to about...

Posted on March 7, 2007 8:09 AM

Part of Yahoo! announcing they have added support for a No Yahoo Directory tag, Yahoo! has issued a weather report saying they need to do an index update for this NOYDIR to work. Before the weather report was issued there...

Posted on February 28, 2007 1:32 PM

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

It appears from the forums that we have early reports of a big Yahoo! Search update underway. WebmasterWorld moderator, Sugarrae posted a thread at WebmasterWorld saying; I'm seeing very big changes in the index this evening... looks like a big...

Posted on January 19, 2007 7:33 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

Late last night, Yahoo! announced a new "Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update." They said; Welcome to our first weather report of the fall season. We are rolling out an index update tonight. As usual, you'll see some changes in...

Posted on October 11, 2006 8:13 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