In my post Yahoo delivers Hand Crafted results too I already hinted on a fact that Yahoo uses hand-job on their results. By the time of writing I only had rumours to rely on, today a hard-proof is at hand. This screenshot published on Flickr by a rather unthoughtful Yahoo employee gives us the following: [...]
As you might have noticed from my post the other day I was a bit ironic about Google Webmaster Tools thingy. It’s been noticed by many that even those highly publicized innovations like backlink checker are not working as even a simple Yahoo Site Explorer search like this one gives you much more links that [...]
Another addition to my SEDD collection – Google itself produced a small guide to SEDD, I quote from their Webmaster Guidelines Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely [...]
As I noticed elsewhere already, Yahoo had gone crazy. Now it seems it’s a deliberate strategy. It looks like they’ve got offended by Google’s near-monopoly and decided to aid those who are more than happy to exhaust Googlebot and Google spam-filters with millions of pages of duplicate content. First Yahoo makes their Y360 blog service [...]
BLIP Going through my Backlinks on Yahoo Site Explorer I suddenly realized that it displays all backlinks regardless. There were open links, links with nofollow attribute in a tag as well as links from pages with meta robots nofollow. This doesn’t mean Yahoo ignores nofollow as it may still exclude it from their link popularity [...]
During the recent google dance not only we suffered the usual (i. e. disappearance of entire sites together with jumping PR) but also it stopped displaying backlinks in any comprehencible manner. I switched to Yahoo! Site Explorer to see my backlinks! But now, hurray! The announcement comes from the babe-swamped heart of Googleplex – you [...]
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