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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: February 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: Gab 133 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Other
Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 13 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2008 - 8:05 am
Posted By: billslawski 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data.

A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 12:29 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
If you want real link data from Yahoo Site Explorer, it appears you now need to be logged into Site Explorer and authenticate your site.

They show different results based on that criteria now... read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2007 - 9:11 am
Posted By: SEMSpot 201 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Yahoo
So Yahoo! came to him and told him that 65% of his traffic was from stolen credit cards, they have no way to track where the traffic exactly came from and that they were going to cancel his account. You can read several email's with him and Michell read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: seanmag 14 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: January 20, 2008 - 9:47 am
Posted By: JeremyLuebke 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Yahoo
Techcrunch just got word that Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005). Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search resul read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: annie7 27 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 10, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: SnoopBloggyBlog 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.betanews.com)
Category: Yahoo
In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative." Microsoft isn't happy and quickly read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 66 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: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 27 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: October 2, 2007 - 6:14 am
Posted By: EricLander 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo
Yahoo today is rolling out a series of changes to their search technology which on the usability side addresses the need for educating the searcher and helping them perform the search query which will lead them to relevant results. And on the findab read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they a read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 7:36 am
Posted By: EricLander 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
This is my comprehensive guide to search engine optimization focusing on the new Yahoo! Search results, including, but not limited to, the Yahoo! Search Assist tools. Includes tips on optimizing Flickr, Yahoo Videos, Event Listings on Upcoming, and read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 12:09 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
The expected Yahoo layoffs started a few hours ago. Two very good people I know are among those cut. No doubt we're going to be hearing from many more. Not much more to report about it at the moment, but I expect over the coming day, we'll have a be read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 9:44 am
Posted By: aimClear 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON-Yahoo stock TUMBLED as 2 Chinese dissidents' families hoped congressional hearings into Yahoo's role in the men's imprisonment spurs their release. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: rustybrick 80 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     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:57 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 3 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: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: identity 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
With Flickr's recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo Site Explorer has just had a big backlink update making link counts a LOT lower. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - What I found most interesting about the document was the change in focus of a search engine from crawling and understanding individual pages to understanding how pages within a site relate to each other.

How do the topics and read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 10:01 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow th read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: bhartzer 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Yahoo
After weeks of speculation, Yahoo announced on their fourth quarter earnings conference call that they will indeed be making layoffs, though a specific number was not given, according to CNBC. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 12:31 am
Posted By: LtDraper 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
I think the title says it all. read more »
3 Comments     


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