Your Strange Yahoo! Referrer Might Be Checking Your Landing Page

Dec 28, 2007 - 9:56 am 0 by

A WebmasterWorld member noticed a strange Yahoo address in his logs and was wondering if anyone had ever noticed it:

alchemy.corp.sp1.yahoo.com

According to Yahoo, this is a URL that they use to test the relevance of landing pages. There are no charges for this activity.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

 

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