Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

  • Posted January 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: Weather Report

Welcome to our first weather report of 2008. Over the last few days, we’ve been rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.

To share your thoughts on this with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer forum.

Sharad Verma
Yahoo! Search

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Comment by Hawkeye
2008-01-22 08:02:53

Last few days… hmmm… I don’t see any change in the listing. Its seems to be the same. I will keep a close eye on the results… any one else?

 
Comment by Catfish
2008-01-22 09:01:58

Thank you for the update. Any comments on what changes we might see in the new algo?

 
Comment by Rooms in Scotland
2008-01-22 09:54:09

most of my rankings have remained the same over the past week, only a couple of noticable drops. did better with the last update!

 
Comment by uGuX SEO
2008-01-22 12:30:58

I’ve seen quite a bit of ranking changes in the Yahoo! Directory — maybe that’s where most of the updates have been.

 
Comment by Rantinpe
2008-01-22 14:46:20

I’ve noticed more international sites being integrated into the natural listings. Although with so many companies doing Paid Inclusion, kind of hard to see any drastic change.

 
Comment by Jamie Hudson
2008-01-22 17:30:35

I’ve noticed some positive ranking changes for most of our sites. It looks like Yahoo is starting to reward the webmasters who play by the rules!

 
Comment by gelinlik
2008-01-23 10:06:50

most of my rankings have remained the same over the past week, only a couple of noticable drops. did better with the last update! thank you

 
Comment by Office Supplies
2008-01-23 19:57:10

The results look like the search team is part of the workforce layoff!

 
Comment by Silicon Valley
2008-01-24 01:00:59

Beginning to see the effects of the new algos, now.

They are interesting. Perhaps the click tracking will be a measure of satisfaction more than any anecdotal comment on this page.

The SERPs do seem to be slightly more diverse – with less major sites occupying the top positions

 
2008-01-25 10:43:01

I’ve noticed for a few of my keywords, that I’ve increased rankings by about 1 page or so.

 
Comment by Cheryl Fuerte
2008-01-25 17:12:05

Yahoo! has optimized indeed. Thanks for moving me from #5 to #4, just right below wikipedia. 加油!

 
Comment by June
2008-01-26 01:31:36

For link spamming sites seems to work well for them. Don’t see any improvements in yahoo. Maybe this is just canada results but they are horrible.

 
Comment by Guido
2008-01-26 09:20:13

I’m just below the multi million budget guys…
Quite nice for a $20 budget webmaster…
I also gonna say that Yahoo Food is a tragedy for me……

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Comment by Meds for All
2008-01-28 05:04:53

i have noticed minor changes on my sites..and after completion ti will improve more…

 
Comment by Vikas Sah
2008-01-29 02:14:09

Some of our sites have seen fluctuations, some have remained stable.

 
Comment by Butter
2008-01-29 04:31:49

hmm not much changesin any of my websites at this moment

 
Comment by Steve
2008-01-29 14:21:20

After 2 years of watching Yahoo`s index iam getting tired . Nothing from our site is in the index. can you give me some hints mayby some help to come back in the index

STeve

 
Comment by chemistry ebooks
2008-01-30 07:30:24

I’ve noticed for a few of my keywords, that I’ve increased rankings by about 1 page or so.

 
Comment by Gino
2008-01-30 19:53:41

Gino,
Weather Report for Central America is dry and very high cloudes, some wind some times and some hot temps, but beautiful, a lot of people swiming at the beaches and taking a nice brown color too. Sumer is at the middle and we don’t expect any rain for a wile.
We want to take the opportunity and ask everyone to come ovr http://www.solidamerica.com and learn how to become a nature savior, by voting for THE COCO ISLAND fron COSTA RICA. In the middle of front page ” Home” you will find the link to how to vote.
Thanks.

 
2008-01-31 02:27:31

I have not noticed much difference compare to earlier when I compare ranking positions of my website.

Two of the keywords got second position to first while one keyword is got from fourth to fifth.

 
Comment by Irlanda
2008-02-03 04:40:10

Couldn’t you put a bunch of people on removing the main spam sites? Thanks!

 
Comment by bzdad
2008-02-05 13:55:23

not much changes for my site rangking but I do notice there is a country radio button below the search box.

 
Comment by SEO Company
2008-02-06 01:12:25

I have also noticed for a few of my keywords, link seo company India that increased rankings.

 
Comment by dev
2008-02-08 17:32:09

Nothing drastic here I guess because I haven’t noticed much of a change at all. Maybe next time!

 
Comment by ilan
2008-02-09 01:37:11

Two of the keywords got second position to first while one keyword is got from fourth to fifth.

 
Comment by Atlanta apartment
2008-02-09 14:43:52

I haven’t noticed big changes. There will probably be bigger changes if the Microsoft – Yahoo deal goes through.

 
2008-02-16 06:20:57

I have not noticed a change. Anyone else?

 
Comment by Aşk şiirleri
2008-02-16 12:49:29

I’ve seen quite a bit of ranking changes in the Yahoo! Directory — maybe that’s where most of the updates have been.

 
Comment by aşk mektupları
2008-02-17 13:24:35

not much changes for my site rangking but I do notice there is a country radio button below the search box.

 
Comment by Jordan Levy
2008-02-21 21:13:34

The majority of our Yahoo! listings have stayed the same, but we’ll see as the update progresses.

 
Comment by program indir
2008-02-22 00:57:58

I’ve noticed for a few of my keywords, that I’ve increased rankings by about 1 page or so.

 
Comment by şiir
2008-02-23 18:51:39

I haven’t noticed big changes. There will probably be bigger changes if the Microsoft – Yahoo deal goes through.

 
Comment by Kaloyan Banev
2008-02-25 01:24:46

I am not very happy with results for some keywords. It seems that a lot blackhat promo websites are still on top10 like website from myspace and friendster.

 
Comment by Vectorpedia
2008-02-28 06:00:08

Thanks for the info on Yahoo’s update…….I will be monitoring the situation

 
Comment by Porno
2008-03-11 05:10:14

I’ve noticed for a few of my keywords, that I’ve increased rankings by about 1 page or so.

 
Comment by Arizona Golf
2008-03-13 11:23:22

Very interesting. This does explain some ranking changes I noticed a while back. I had attributed it to some other efforts, but I’ll factor this in as well now.

 
Comment by Homebizseo.com
2008-03-17 00:32:41

More chandes are needed. Each website need to be crawled several times each day for improved web use.

 
Comment by charles chambers
2008-04-02 03:04:28

Not really noticed many changes however Yahoo still putting a lot of weighting on domain names.

 
Comment by steve jenings
2008-04-02 03:12:00

I’m still hoping Yahoo will notice the sites that are working hard on new content and linking instaed of some of these new guys who seem to jump straight up the rankings

 
Comment by güzel sözler
2008-04-07 11:57:40

I’m still hoping Yahoo will notice the sites that are working hard on new content and linking instaed of some of these new guys who seem to jump straight up the rankings

 
Comment by you tube
2008-04-07 12:01:09

Very interesting. This does explain some ranking changes I noticed a while back. I had attributed it to some other efforts, but I’ll factor this in as well now

 
Comment by oyunlar
2008-04-10 04:34:59

I’ve noticed for a few of my keywords, that I’ve increased rankings by about 1 page or so.

 
Comment by msn kur
2008-04-10 08:18:45

More chandes are needed. Each website need to be crawled several times each day for improved web use.

 
Comment by Geoffre Gonzales
2008-04-30 22:30:31

April 30th. My entire site has been de-indexed from Yahoo. GG

 
Comment by sachinKT
2008-05-05 19:59:24

I’ve seen quite a bit of ranking changes in the Yahoo! Directory

 
Comment by Logo Design Guru
2008-05-16 02:40:58

Yahoo Site Explorer is undoubtedly the most effective tool for link analysis and indexing that no other competitor can compete.

 
Comment by gopher
2008-05-19 00:58:22

A year has gone by, and Yahoo hasn’t crawled my site at all…G and MSN both picked it up within a couple of weeks

 
Comment by szita kalman
2008-05-27 00:07:32

There will probably be bigger changes if the Microsoft – Yahoo deal goes through.

 
Comment by Jonix K.
2008-06-03 11:48:12

Maybe i’m one of the few, but i still prefer the yahoo search and not the google one. Many times i search things related to computers, that i only can find at yahoo and not google.

Every change in the yahoo algorithm it’s good, but only if it give us some improvements.

 
Comment by Alice Spencer
2008-06-06 22:33:15

haven’t noticed any far reaching changes in terms of relevant content or more established sites getting higher value

 
Comment by Alex Griffin
2008-06-11 07:06:00

It looks like Yahoo is starting to reward the webmasters who play by the rules! Thank you for update.

 
Comment by Peter Wolf
2008-06-14 00:38:10

Two of the keywords got second position to first while one keyword is got from fourth to fifth.

 

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