Yahoo! takes organic listings with RSS and cross sells with My.Yahoo

Will Yahoo! give algo priorities to sites that benefit its other products?

[Nacho]

This is something that just came up to me today and never seen it before or found a post that talks about it. Today, when I did a query for my KW1 of one of my sites on Yahoo! I came across this that suddenly jumped up to the #1 spot:

1. Keyword 1 and Keywording 1
Keyword 1 news provided by Company Name - 1.800.company.com ... Posted by Company Name at 02:37 PM ... premier magazine addressing the needs of KW2 professionals in the United States" Posted by Company Name at 02:44 PM ...
RSS: View as XML - Add to My Yahoo! [Beta]
www.domain.net/ - 238k - Cached - More pages from this site

And noticed the “RSS: View as XML” and “Add to My Yahoo! [Beta]”, so I decided to give it a shot and add it to My Yahoo! and it came up right at the top of my news on the right. I thought this was very cool and a nice feature for all members.

I’m thinking, will Yahoo! give algo priorities or pluses to sites that can match their cross selling products (such as My Yahoo!, Finance, etc.)?

Has anyone done any testing to validate a boost?

[raftdude]

When I look at my site logs I see that I get hit alot from Yahoo's "feedfinder" crawling my feeds from MyYahoo. There may be some link from the feed directory to the seach directory since the pages the feeds are on are not directly linked to the "public" part of the site. (The RSS feeds are news summaries for employees but if others stumble on them its ok)

I am going to add feeds to the public side of our site to see if it will increase our pr.

[MaxM]

I definetly like how my current search result look like. The site title is "Widget1 Widget2 Widget3". (now this is my non-commercial/ad-free hobby site I have fun with so different Yahoo rules might apply (?).)

Example: A search for Widget1 Widget2 Widget3 brings at second position:

Widget1 Widget2 Widget3 - "plus a two word punch line"
Site meta name description that contains Widget1 Widget2 Widget3 lenght is
spanning two lines bla bla bla and so on...
Category: Widget1 > Widget2 and otherwidget
RSS: View as XML - Add to My Yahoo! [Beta]
Widget1Widget2.domain.com - 35k - Cached - More pages from this site

If nothing else this 6 line result maybe looks better and is more eye catching than those other 3 or 4 liners around me. :) This new updated search result appeared for me only a few days ago so can't say if it has had any impact yet.

This has probably been mentioned before but look at your logs. The end of YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 user agent shows how many are subscribing to your rss feed. "users xx; views yyyy"