Comments on: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

By: alessandro

alessandro — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:59:44 +0000

I see slight improvements in the SERPs, some of those pure spam subdomains including redirects get removed from the top of the SERPs but still a lot of crap to get rid of. Now I wonder when a new Weather Report will be run out…

By: LLC

LLC — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:51:55 +0000

I paid to have a directory listing but then my homepage title in the SERPs changed to my company name? What’s with this? My company name doesn’t relate to rankings or presenting my value proposition. What a waste of $300.

By: Superclown

Superclown — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:51:55 +0000

Guys – please, please stop rewarding referrer and blog spam. When I look through the more competitive terms a very high proportion of top ranking sites are blog spam and even many genuine – looking sites seem to be up there thanks to blog and referrer spam links. Keeping these people out of our blogs and weblogs is a real and growing problem for many of us, and their sites contribute little or nothing that’s of real value to a searcher but you could really help us all, webmasters, searchers and your own company by filtering out the offenders – if there’s no longer any point they’ll stop messing up our blogs and logs, and your search results. Please. Thanks guys.

By: Ian Howe

Ian Howe — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:43:00 +0000

It seems to me that the UK serps are biased in favor of sites on UK servers. A pity, IMO, because many savvy UK companies run their sites on USA servers, they are cheaper, the service is better and for a company in London it’s just as easy to run a server in Detroit as it is one in Canary Wharf. The world is very small now and outsourcing abroad is a major UK corporate strategy.

By: Superclown

Superclown — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:02:18 +0000

Nancy: I wonder, are you using AOL as either your home or work ISP? If so it could be a geotargetting issue. There are different SERPs on yahoo.com depending upon the IP address of the ISP you are viewing the site from.

By: alessandro

alessandro — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:56:45 +0000

Imran Khan, maybe Yahoo! is using some kind of different ranking also for different industries ( thought I don’t really believe this ), this taking into consideration your observations. I can see a ton of proboards.com subdomains aquiring the top spots within the most SERPs I watch and their only backlinks are those from similar subdomains. Pretty weird IMHO!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:21:49 +0000

Why does my website rank 2 on yahoo serp when I search on a pc at home but doesnt appear at all when I search on a pc at work?

Can someone please explain this to me ?

By: Imran Khan

Imran Khan — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:39:31 +0000

alessandro, I am not agree with you that YAHOO is behind the links like Google. Because I am continiously doing links for my website. I also have some authority links from related website but I still dropped in YAHOO.

I think YAHOO is giving more and more importance to the site content and avoiding the unneccessary anchor text.

By: alessandro

alessandro — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:07:14 +0000

I’d have 3 things to point about from analizing the SERPs of 50+ different keywords I watch on Yahoo!

1. Subdomains seem to have a great ranking power within the current algo, no matter they are pure spam and/or they’re 404’s.

2. Yahoo! is getting link addicted just like Google, which IMO isn’t that good, I always liked Yahoo! ( and used it for my own searches ) because of it’s stronger emphasize on ACTUAL RELEVANT CONTENT ( keyword rich content ), which used to be just relevant for what I was searching.

3. Although Yahoo! moves fast nowadays in terms of crawling/indexing, it should now try to copy Google in terms on link addictness. An modern algo should care about backlinks of course, but don’t go after them obsessively if you can’t sort them out in terms of quality and base rankings on them.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:31:38 +0000

Come on Yahoo……

Yahoo.com (when it is showing the good ones) is producing some of the best results seen from Yahoo to date yet Yahoo.co.uk is a pile of ……

Surely the UK market means a bit to you guys or have you given up on us ?