It’s good that Yahoo! provides everyone a hint that some change is brewing over its search algorithms. But that’s about it. Every single update posted on its Yahoo! Search blog about the ‘weather report’, loosely referring to Yahoo’s search index update, will mention a generic paragraph. Just like the latest update dated 7th of April 2009: We’ll [...]
Continue reading Duplicate Content: Can Yahoo Search Index ‘Weather Report’ Be Specific?21. June 2007
Call me a copycat but I am inspired to do my version after I saw the 21 signs you need a break from SEO by Small Business SEM. You think you’ve got too much search engine optimization/marketing (SEO/SEM) on your mind? Take the following survey honestly to gauge if you need a break from SEM. All [...]
Continue reading 23 Signs You Need A Break from Search Marketing3. May 2007
Yahoo! has introduced a new feature that will help webmasters specify what sections of a web page should not be indexed. In addition to using the traditional robots.txt file that instructs search engine robots what pages to skip crawling, this new directive from Yahoo! allows webmasters to use the “robots-nocontent” on tags such as <p>, [...]
Continue reading Introducing Yahoo! Robots-Nocontent Feature29. March 2007
Yahoo’s search crawler Slurp will be moving from its previously identified address at Inktomi to crawl.yahoo.net. This makes Slurp more identifiable with Yahoo! than as a property of a subsidiary. I don’t think there are other changes that need to be done by webmasters apart from adding crawl.yahoo.net in the list of domains to get [...]
Continue reading Moving Yahoo! Slurp to crawl.yahoo.net12. February 2007
Most users have seen how Yahoo! Search Marketing’s upgrade looks like. A new ranking model baptized “Panama” with special focus on changing the way ads are ranked. From the traditional, cost-per-click-dependent structure, quality of ads is now emphasized so that a lower CPC keyword can rank higher than a more pricey one, if its [...]
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9. April 2009
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