Out of SiteMatch & Bumped Up In Ranking

What's up w/ Yahoo?

[Williamsburg]

Hello...

I've decided to switch venders for my SiteMatch feed. In the intervening time, I'm totally out of the SiteMatch program as of yesterday.

Here's what I noticed today:

We rank on the first page of the SERP for one of our main keywords. This is an old Yahoo Index listing (starts w/ "offers black widgets..."). We've been bouncing in and out of this position for months.

Also, we are now ranking on the 1st page for another main keyword. This keyword we've never ranked well for in Y! or GOOG. The listings also starts w/ "offers black widgets...".

What are the dedupe rules for SiteMatch/Y!?

Anyone else see this?

[Yahoo_Mike]

Williamsburg,

SiteMatch doesn't obligate you to submit your homepage. Just a thought, but if you wanted you could include other, deeper pages. Congrats on being on the first page!

Yahoo! Mike

[Williamsburg]

Thanks for the reply. With my old vender, I didnt submit my homepage to SiteMatch. Which leads to the question...

Does SiteMatch look at things from a URL by URL prespective? Or, does the fact that I have other URLs in the system affect rackings?

[Warren]

Site Match is a per URL program - that is you pay for every URL you enter into the program.

If you don't submit every URL (such as your homepage for example), they may get picked up during the freecrawl process.

Regardless of how the URL gets into the set of results. the same ranking algorithm is used.