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January 22, 2008

Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

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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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?

Posted by: Hawkeye | January 22, 2008 08:02 AM

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

Posted by: Catfish | January 22, 2008 09:01 AM

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

Posted by: Rooms in Scotland | January 22, 2008 09:54 AM

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

Posted by: uGuX SEO | January 22, 2008 12:30 PM

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.

Posted by: Rantinpe | January 22, 2008 02:46 PM

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!

Posted by: Jamie Hudson | January 22, 2008 05:30 PM

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

Posted by: gelinlik | January 23, 2008 10:06 AM

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

Posted by: Office Supplies | January 23, 2008 07:57 PM

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

Posted by: Silicon Valley | January 24, 2008 01:00 AM

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

Posted by: Reverse Phone Lookup Directory | January 25, 2008 10:43 AM

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

Posted by: Cheryl Fuerte | January 25, 2008 05:12 PM

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.

Posted by: June | January 26, 2008 01:31 AM

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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Posted by: Guido | January 26, 2008 09:20 AM

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

Posted by: Meds for All | January 28, 2008 05:04 AM

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

Posted by: Vikas Sah | January 29, 2008 02:14 AM

hmm not much changesin any of my websites at this moment

Posted by: Butter | January 29, 2008 04:31 AM

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

Posted by: Steve | January 29, 2008 02:21 PM

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

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Thanks.

Posted by: Gino | January 30, 2008 07:53 PM

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.

Posted by: Manual Directory Submission Services | January 31, 2008 02:27 AM

thanks

Posted by: mehmet | February 1, 2008 10:04 PM

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

Posted by: Irlanda | February 3, 2008 04:40 AM

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

Posted by: bzdad | February 5, 2008 01:55 PM

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

Posted by: SEO Company | February 6, 2008 01:12 AM

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

Posted by: dev | February 8, 2008 05:32 PM

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

Posted by: ilan | February 9, 2008 01:37 AM


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

Posted by: Atlanta apartment | February 9, 2008 02:43 PM

How many years is "soon" in Yahoo scaling

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Thanks for the update. Has anyone noticed changes?

Posted by: wow mining guide | February 16, 2008 06:19 AM

I have not noticed a change. Anyone else?

Posted by: montblanc meisterstuck | February 16, 2008 06:20 AM

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

Posted by: Aşk şiirleri | February 16, 2008 12:49 PM

I haven't noticed any major variations yet.

Posted by: steveh | February 17, 2008 11:56 AM

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

Posted by: aşk mektupları | February 17, 2008 01:24 PM

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

Posted by: Jordan Levy | February 21, 2008 09:13 PM

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

Posted by: program indir | February 22, 2008 12:57 AM

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

Posted by: şiir | February 23, 2008 06:51 PM

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.

Posted by: Kaloyan Banev | February 25, 2008 01:24 AM

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

Posted by: Vectorpedia | February 28, 2008 06:00 AM

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

Posted by: Porno | March 11, 2008 05:10 AM

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.

Posted by: Arizona Golf | March 13, 2008 11:23 AM

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

Posted by: Homebizseo.com | March 17, 2008 12:32 AM

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

Posted by: charles chambers | April 2, 2008 03:04 AM

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

Posted by: steve jenings | April 2, 2008 03:12 AM

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

Posted by: gzel szler | April 7, 2008 11:57 AM

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

Posted by: you tube | April 7, 2008 12:01 PM

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

Posted by: cep temaları | April 10, 2008 04:33 AM

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

Posted by: inndir.com | April 10, 2008 04:34 AM

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

Posted by: oyunlar | April 10, 2008 04:34 AM

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

Posted by: msn kur | April 10, 2008 08:18 AM

I havent noticed big chances...

Posted by: Trkische Chat | April 17, 2008 12:17 PM

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

Posted by: Geoffre Gonzales | April 30, 2008 10:30 PM

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

Posted by: sachinKT | May 5, 2008 07:59 PM

Thanks for infos.

Posted by: Yemek Oyunları | May 13, 2008 03:04 PM

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