Yahoo! natural listings

are there any left at all?

[webpundit]

Does Yahoo! search provide any natural listings any more? If I understand correctly, the listings under "Web Results" are from what the Slurp has indexed. But this is usually sites that have forked out the paid inclusion fee, right? How are these results ranked?

[WebGuerrilla]

>>But this is usually sites that have forked out the paid inclusion fee, right?

There certainly is paid listings in the web results, but they make up a fery small percentage of the overall listings. The majority of the results are still pages found by Slurp.

[webpundit]

How are the listings ranked? Same way as the Google organic listings (I'm not talking about exact algorithimic issues, but merely whether the same SEO techniques yield good results in Yahoo as well)

Most of us have seen the Bruce Clay search engine relationship chart. Is there a more updated version/explanation available anywhwere? I'm constantly getting confused by the changes in the industry.

[Marcia]

Plenty of free pages are doing just fine in Yahoo. Don't get confused - it's Google and Yahoo right now basically. Here's a recent simple list

[webmasterworld.com...]

Jeeves is on the prowl for sites now, MSN is coming up with something of their own - but for now, only those two are worth major attention.

Yahoo is similar to the old Ink, on-page SEO 101 with some link pop thrown in, but AFAIK not near as link-happy as Google is.

[webpundit]

Wow!

That is EXACTLY what I was looking for...thanks a ton, Marcia!

[Warren]

There certainly is paid listings in the web results, but they make up a fery small percentage of the overall listings. The majority of the results are still pages found by Slurp.

Tim said at Pub Con Orlando that PFI represented less than 1% of the index.

[rfgdxm1]

>Tim said at Pub Con Orlando that PFI represented less than 1% of the index.

Commercial sites that would pay for PFI are <1% of the pages on the web. Just think of the tons of content on .edu and .gov sites out there. Then consider all the personal sites that people have up. If Yahoo was just PFI, then the only folks that would search at Yahoo are those specifically looking to buy something. This would NOT be good for Yahoo which wants to be a portal for the masses. Yahoo's dream is that nobody would ever need to bother with using Google.