July 19, 2007
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search 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 expect the update will be completed by the weekend. So, as you know, throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages in the index.
Thanks for keeping the feedback coming.
Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search
Can’t wait to see what happens! Thanks for keeping us updated and good job so far!
Thanks for letting us know!
I had already noticed those changes. Some website owners will be happy with the new results :-)
Change in Yahoo search is welcome. Several forums that I read talk about the quality of search in Yahoo vs your competition. I have to agree with them. It appears as though the other search engines are returning more useful results.
Good luck with your changes. I would really like to see better results from Yahoo.
Thaks for the info ime adding it to our general comments this month for our SEO clients
I can not believe all of the .edu junk that clogs the SERPS!
Thanks for the info. Noticed some changes in search results and was wondering why.
So far this is the best result in the last few updates…….
I hope it would be better and more pertinent !!!
Hoping for good results.
The new results are worse than ever
Spam has moved into the top positions, the quality sites have gained, from 68 to 63.
Big losses in image clicks due to Flicker, should we be selling our products and services on Flicker? Can I suggest a new Tabs: Images and Flicker.
PS I am glad you did not buy MSN
now when you going to add this and other features for linux users
My no.1 website drop to 15, is this going to get fixed. I think this is unfair.
I love the new search suggestions. It makes search intuitive and the results are good to make me switch to Yahoo as the prime search provider.
However my pet peeve is the position of the search bar. I used to use yahoo a lot more before you redesigned the site. Now it is up and to the LEFT and it is not ergonomically friendly. I suggest you do an A/B test or better still allow users to build their own page to position the search bar where they like. I would come back to yahoo in a minute. Note I have been a yahoo user in one form or another since 96
Thanks
Dump all of the Yahoo Directory listings from Yahoo Search. Most are terribly outdated. I´m seeing some that are unchanged from when they were first listed over five years ago and now have little relevance to the present sites they represent. I find it bizarre that no one at Yahoo has noticed this yet.
I hope that you have place less emphasis on the URL name to stop content robbers ripping off sites putting the same content with more relevant URL and placing higher on the searches very frustrating.
I would like to see the longer hosted sites have more relevance than the newbies, also agree with Mr.Heath’s comment.
To be honest I don’t have a clue why Yahoo has been slurping my site for months . Not even a single user I received by yahoo se! Will this change after the weekend? I hope so
Hope
Thanks for your information,Is there any new terms included for crawling the websites./
This blog and Yahoo Buzz are the most interesting things happened to Yahoo. I like these. Moreover Yahoo searched is improved a lot in the recent years. I mostly search on Yahoo.
Definitely looking forward to see what will happen. Thanks for the improvements.
I am happy to see that Yahoo is at least trying to keep us in the loop as to what they are doing. This type of information is vital for those that are serious about tracking the progress and results in regard to our websites and businesses.
I have pretty much given up on Yahoo… one update I have good ranking another update it drops to the second page and then up on the first page during this update, although I should be happy but between the last 3 updates I have not touched my site but still the rank fluctuates, so I am really not sure if what ever I had done is right or wrong. Honestly, updates info like these are useless because it really does not tell me anything… Priyank, you are better off not telling us any thing because honestly its not helping since I am as ignorant as far as yahoo ranking is concerned as I was before you put up that weather report…
Good results, as far as I can see. Better than before the update.
You know what? Its great that yall are doing something but the fact is I just did a search for my top keywords and the SERP is:
1) Basically the same as they were before this update except that they now include things that have nothing to do with the keywords at all like (Domain Name Reservation Services and Snipr | Snipurl 2.0 | Snurl - Snippetty snip snip with your looong URLs!)
2) The descriptions that are being displayed under the titles of the websites with my keyword phrases are so shortened its a wonder that anyone can tell what the websites are about without having to guess. It would be great to see a normal description instead of two random incomplete sentences; 1 from the actual description the webmaster wrote that yahoo cuts to an average length of 74 Characters and 2 from a random sentence that is listed within the webpage that happens to have the keywords that were used to do the search and that is also cut to an average of 78-80 Characters. Why cant there just be one description (preferably the one that the webmaster embedded in their coding) that consists of about 150 Characters and makes it clear what the website is actually about? If the original description is longer than that then either cut it at 150 characters or drop the ranking a few spots until the webmaster complies with the type of description that Yahoo wants.
3) Lastly what is the sense of listing one website twice back to back if it comes from the same domain for the same keyword. When searching for my keyword in the SERP I found both the domain (www.blahblahblah.com) and right under that (www.blahblahblah.com/blah.htm) so that webmaster has to be very happy since they get the #3 and #4 spots on the first page of the results. A good search result to me would have been to see whichever webpage that had more weight for the keyword and another listing from someone else that deserved the next spot in the SERP.
There are other small things but this is shocking to me considering that upgrades are to make things better not more complicated for the searcher or the webmasters that supply the content for these engines.
you are still missing a lot of sites, I think most of the sites missing is sites where you have baned a whole IP blocks, which is pure stupid.
when I make a search I always have to think, what am I missing and then go to google.
Also your rankings are still not much worth, but you maybe know that when you compare to other SEs
It would be nice to see the SERPs updating a little more often. With most of the other major search engines provided your website has enough link strength any onsite changes you make affected your ranking within a few days of re-indexing. Cheers.
That’s a good news but i don’t think so their is any big changes in yahoo search cause it showing me the same results which i was getting before 2 weeks ago.
I noticed a big change in the number of inlinks throughout the day (i.e. 400-2000). My ranking also varies a lot (#2 in the morning and #20 in the evening). Is this normal as a result of the search update?
I cant find any change on my site’s indexing. Is this index is involved with all sites on the database?
No change in my sites indexing too. I am curious to see how this will change the indexing.
Thanks you keeping us up to date.
No changes yet either; looking forward to seeing some.
I am seeing more hits from yahoo. Normally I would get ziltch… today I have a whopping 3 hits… although when I search for the keywords myself, I can’t find my website in the SERPS
is the updadtion completed …are the ranks updated.cant you send personal ranks to every one who updates here
Well, I am seeing a little more yahoo referals to my site. Both of your major competitors seem to like my site and blog better though, and I do have lots of content!
And I have yahoo as my home page too! No loyalty back, I guess. You know Yahoo — the whole world is not about youtube and wicki-spam-pedia.
This a really bad update.. Authority sites in other engines rank really bad on my search sector.
But this update make what effect on our ranking. and what should we do to bring again our website’s ranking in the yahoo search result page
Never change nothing for my site position, eventhough Yahoo update their datacenter many times.
Looks like they have aging filters now on links. Some of my newer sites did not make it, older sites with less quality and fewer links are beating my new ones. Onpage is very close to the other sites also.
I wonder if yahoo is now using their version of LSI and a Sandbox (link aging filters)??
Its great to see pureplays starting to do well in the Yahoo! SERP, its about time the likes of Tesco, Argos, Amazon, eBay etc took a back seat for competitive keywords.
Apart from this, anyone seeing any major changes in the UK|
I’m seeing a several spam related content for some keywords.
Will this get fixed? Some of these keywords are pretty popular
Some of my sites changed their ranking in Yahoo. I am looking forward to understand why.
Can someone confirm if there is really the aging filters now?
Terrible update. 80% .edu ded sites in serps. Good sites gone to nowhere, shi… is on the top.
Some of my sites changed their ranking in Yahoo. I am looking forward to understand why?
Can someone confirm if there is really the aging filters now?
i wonder this questions..
I’m seeing a several spam related content for some keywords.
So far this is the best result in the last few updates…
Thanks for your information,Is there any new terms included for crawling the websites…
So far this is the best result in the last few updates…
Thanks for Nice article!
I’ve already known this feature.
I like it very much.
Please teach us good information again!
That’s a good news but i don’t think so their is any big changes in yahoo search cause it showing me the same results
Can someone confirm if there is really the aging filters now?
I’ve noticed more activity from yahoo spiders on my blogs. I wonder how much they increased the scanning of the page.. I think they also eat a bit more bandwidth now.