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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Yahoo likes on-site optimisation

Monday, December 25, 2006

BLIP Stranegely, but Yahoo pays more attention to on-site factors than others. This a bit old-fashioned tactic possibly extends to meta tags as well. tags: blip Bookmark to:

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MSN likes link text

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

BLIP This observation is derived from MSN ranking higher for a particular keyword pages and sites that have keywords in link text and link title of external links as opposed to sites and pages these links are pointing to. This seems to be a reverse logic i. e. link text becomes a kind of a [...]

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Yahoo Tracks User Behaviour

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

BLIP Yahoo seems to be particularly keen on having and most likely using in-house data on relevancy of their SEPR by tracking user clicks. It is undeniable that they get this data, the question is how exactly they use it? My take is that this data can not be used in an obvious way – [...]

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Yahoo delivers Hand Crafted results too

Monday, December 4, 2006

BLIP It is a rather widespread rumour that inside the Yahoo corporate network the Yahoo searchpage is delivered with a link urging Yahoo employees to report inappropriate search results to the relevant department. Although to my knowledge it is the only evidence of handcrafting so fat I am inclined to believe it. More so considering [...]

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Jesus Search in Tags – Technorati goes Banner Blind

Saturday, December 2, 2006

It pays to keep your eyes open As banner-blindness increases in all of us it seems it also affects the banner-targeting algorithms. Honestly, I was just doing my little keyword research on Technorati when I inadvertently found Jesus! For those for whom the picture isn’t enough here is the full text: Looking for Jesus? www.ebay.com [...]

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