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The oldest of the web's major search engines, Yahoo is arguably the most successful competitor to Google, in terms of coverage of the web, use by searchers and advertising reach. For more background, see Yahoo news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2009 - 5:06 pm
Posted By: aczafra 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo
Yahoo, which we all know has been cutting back substantially and looking for sources of extra revenue, has devised a new plan to bring in some income by clearing out it closet of premium domain names on the open market. Last night, Yahoo sold Contes read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2009 - 10:58 pm
Posted By: MattSiltala 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2009 - 8:38 am
Posted By: robwatts 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: Yahoo
"I had the fortune of meeting Yahoo’s new CEO Carole Bartz last night. It was an interesting juxtaposition with the Google earnings call that was going on simultaneously and so I’ll provide a brief comment on both." read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2009 - 10:11 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
Bill Sklawski writes, "A newly published Yahoo patent application gives us some ideas on how it might extract keywords from the URLs of pages, and ranks them, as well as using information uncovered in the process to determine which pages to crawl fi read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2009 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: seobrien 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobrien.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
How to fix Yahoo by making them an online advertising powerhouse. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 5:35 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
Andy Beal writes, "Someone over at Yahoo made the bone-headed decision to start unilaterally messing with the keywords and bids of sponsored search customers. If that wasn’t bad enough, Yahoo just updated its Terms & Conditions–making advertisers fu read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 10:30 am
Posted By: ericbramlett 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Stay here and get straight to my answers? For really real? read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 17, 2008 - 7:51 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 228 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kara.allthingsd.com)
Category: Yahoo
"i will be participating in the search for my successor, and i will continue as ceo until the board selects a new ceo. once a successor is named, i will return to my previous role as chief yahoo and continue to serve as a director on the board." read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 2:34 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space.

This was largely due to the fact that if your content got the most “buzz” it had a chance to be featured on Ya read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo
Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites. This service helps to create a feedback mechanism read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: steveespinosa 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stephenespinosa.com)
Category: Yahoo
Learn how to increase your calls on Yahoo! Local in about 15 minuets. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: rustybrick 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Indenting has just begun at Yahoo Search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: cledford 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.3tailer.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
6 easy steps to 301ing your Yahoo! store. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: ViperChill 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A strange new bug in the search feature of the Yahoo Directory seems to be showing sites either hosted or extensively cross-linked with the site you are searching for. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 361 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: robsnell 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seminhouse.com)
Category: Yahoo
When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade! Think bigger than that! Roll out a nationwide chain of lemonade stands and cash out with an IPO. SEO Jessica Bowman was one of the first in the Yahoo! Brains to drain, but look who's laughing all read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:57 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: seanmag 379 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Stephen T, in-house SEO at LocateTV does an outstanding job visually walking us through the process of implementing enhanced listing parameters in Yahoo SearchMonkey, with SERP results that include photos, links, etc.

Applying these tactics cou read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 379 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 393 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
SEMpdx Member Tracy Chapman shares with the Yahoo PPC folks (and us) why she won't allow her Yahoo accounts to be optimized without her consent. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: annie7 393 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
The Yahoo patent application introduces the idea of a search category commercialization index, which could be calculated by looking at two or more metrics: (1) Number of searches within the category; (2) Number of total advertisers in the category; read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 6:06 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 430 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbgeeks.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Earlier this month, Yahoo! unveiled its new oneSearch, which includes voice-based search. Since this was an exclusive BlackBerry download, I decided to give it a test run. We were told by Yahoo! execs that oneSearch will learn my style of speech ove read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 432 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 3:40 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 445 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Yahoo has announced the launch of their new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp 3.0. 3.0 is slowly being pushed out over the course of the "next several weeks," including "some infrastructure updates," Yahoo said. I suspect the recent changes we reported with the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: rustybrick 446 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Lots of reports about a weekend Yahoo Search update. No official word from Yahoo yet, but it seems like we got a major Yahoo update going on. read more »
2 Comments     


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