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Also, that whole title change thing [webmasterworld.com] looks like a plague spreading through the web at the moment.
Anyone else seeing it?
The results on Yahoo.com are very different from those on Yahoo.co.uk in the niche that I watch.
.com seems to be continuing to give weight to Yahoo Directory listing whereas for me .co.uk seems to ignore this.
FWIW I think that Yahoo have made a major blunder (or series of) recently. Their SERPs in the early part of last year were pretty good in our market but are now poor. If I was the person making the decisions at Yahoo I'd revert back to the previous algorithm for now and try a different direction for change. Sometimes you have to go back, turn right and go ahead again.
Cheers
Sid
[edited by: Hissingsid at 11:59 am (utc) on Jan. 24, 2007]
It does seem as though the title replacements have been fixed, at least in my corner of the world.
But still lot of Spam!
Where we are listed in the top 10 the pages are the wrong ones. What I mean by this is there are pages that fit the search term much better and which are in Yahoo directory.
For the most frequently used two word search term in our market our home page was #1 for about 6 years and it has been listed as #1 in the directory for all of that time. Now that page is still at #1 in the directory but is not in the top 100 in the Web search. Instead (on .co.uk) we have an inside page at #8 and a page on a different topic at #11.
On .com the #1 is a page from a suspended domain at #4 is a report on a completely unrelated at #8 is a Russian scrapper site page and at #10 is a page completely unrelated to the search term. Our home page is at #15.
Previously in our market there were no inappropriate pages in the first couple of pages and the majority of our on-line and offline competitors were listed.
I wouldn't belly ache about being knocked off top spot by a better page, I'd simply work out how to make mine better but when an error page from a suspended domain does it there has to be something wrong.
Cheers
Sid
PS Our home page has been at #1 on Google for most of the last 5 years and on Ask for most of that time etc etc and we have not recently changed it.
Went from #18 to #2 last week when the update began, then they decided to bump me back to #21... and a scraped article I wrote is STILL at #1 for my main keyword!
Same ol, same ol... YahooYoYo!
no clue what happens w. yahoo search.
our Google and MSN serps are fine
Yahoo, when I 301 something, it doesn't mean I want you to use the old URL and list the title of the current page. It measn the page has MOVED PERMANENTLY -- and after two and a half years, you should believe me that it has...
About a week ago, I have seen my Yahoo rankings drop where my targeted keyphrase used to rank high in all Google, Yahoo and MSN. All page 1 results, then Yahoo suddenly move my site to page 5, sometimes 6.
And just 2 days ago, I checked all entries in Yahoo's page 1 for my targeted keywords and one thing I noticed was Yahoo seems to be too sensitive now to the same anchor text from all your links and the top 10 has a lot of variations.
So I changed my anchor text a bit yesterday and added more variations, and today, my site is dancing on Yahoo from Page 6 to Page 1, while refreshing the page several times. Hopefully it stays back again on page 1 after a few days.
And as for Yahoo traffic, even if the market share is lower, that is still tons of people where you can profit from. Actually even MSN traffic has value to me.
maybe they are moving to do this on a two week basis instead of monthly?
this would explain why some of my commercial phrase targets lost a bunch of rankings overnight while non commercial only lost a spot or two.
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