my old girlfriend hates me... Y! now buries my dir listings too.

going from top 10s to buried in the *directory* results

[dogboy]

...ok.... I'm not talking about regular default search which brings up Google results... I'm talking about if you click the directory link at the top of the default SERPs and you go back into the old Yahoo directory results... just dropped from #1 to #125 on one site and seeing this across the board for a number of top 10s that are OLD... don't know if this is just specific to me, or others are seeing this as well... feedback?

[Lingerboy]

2_much...what's the gist of that thread. Yahoo Sponsored Listings are finally gonna give some value?

[2_much]

Nope, it's more about SEO and whether it's now finally dead.

Old school SEO had Yahoo as an integral part of its success - you optimized for Yahoo, got a LOT of traffic for a couple of words, made a ton of money based solely on your Yahoo listings.

Now this, as well as almost everything else reminiscent to old school SEO, is gone.

As someone was saying at Pubcon, maybe we should now call ourselves account managers, not SEO's.

I'm not quite ready to belive that, but this whole thing with Yahoo is just leaving Google and I'm scared that it might really be the beginning of the end. Heck I don't own this business so I'm not too worried, I could easily find another job. But I would be very sad to see this happen.

[2_much]

One more thing - it's really not that bad.

Like Dr.Cool said in another thread, you can build up the same traffic in Yahoo by optimizing for a variety of keywords in Google.

I don't like to wait until things settle down, I tend to react quickly, even if more changes follow, in order to be ahead of the game if the results remain constant.

The Directory listings were pretty useless anyways.

I have a site (highly niche'd) that was listed # 1 for its primary kw in Yahoo Dir. and got 879 hits fromo Yahoo from 10/1/02 to 10/8/02. After the change (10/9/02), it got 109 from 10/9/02 to 10/16/02 and it's still listed # 1 in the directory. The traffic from the Directory is just not as important as it used to be.

[pmac]

Looks to me like they have reverted back to the old directory listings. Anyone else?

[dogboy]

...she loves.... she loves me not.... she loves me...

[BruceWane]

>>Looks to me like they have reverted back to the old directory listings. Anyone else?<<

Yep. Sometime last week I moved from #8 to #4.......now back to #8.