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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: Gab 197 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 76 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: August 16, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: cledford 21 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 164 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 9:44 am
Posted By: aimClear 301 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: identity 196 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 10:01 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 175 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 12:31 am
Posted By: LtDraper 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
I think the title says it all. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 8:44 pm
Posted By: stuntdubl 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smart-keywords.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Frank Watson's counterpoint to the New York Post article about companies interested in buying Yahoo! now that it is below $24 a share.

Is the M$ Yahoo buyout imminent? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 6:06 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 127 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 12:34 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
This is a gift from me, XMCP, to you, the reader. Yahoo Directory costs $299 to get a site reviewed, and $299 for each year of inclusion. And I have a list of ones that have expired, and are already listed! So I'm passing a fair portion of them over read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 4:33 pm
Posted By: aimClear 296 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Other
MyBlogLog has been screwed up for 15 hours. check any site that uses it...ugly... I guess we get what we pay for :). [SEEMS TO BE FIXED 4PM EST] read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 29, 2007 - 10:24 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnbc.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
CNBC article has several comments from fuming Yahoo Store merchants: "What a complete disaster. All of a sudden, the bedrock of our company has been replaced with quicksand." And this: "...my business and reputation suffers as a result of a hosting read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2007 - 8:39 am
Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yodel.yahoo.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
In a bit of fun, Yahoo's Flickr staff create "Faceball", spread it around the world and lament Google's lack of balls. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aczafra 183 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Is this the sign of a new partnership between Yahoo and NewsCorp’s Fox Interactive, the parent company of MySpace, in an effort to build a stronger brand between the two and fight the Microsoft takeover? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo News Reports Microsoft Bid Change [SearchEngineWatch] read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
"For some, it’s the glory; for others it’s the danger. Still for others it’s the way members of the opposite sex find them a little more appealing."

After reading the above sentence, and you can all enjoy more pearls like this on the Help section read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Other
Former CEO of Yahoo! Terry Semel resigned from the board late Thursday, just hours before the announcement of Microsoft's $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo.

During his reign as CEO he fought hard against a merger of the two companies. Semel admitted read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mrconn 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Hard to believe but according to Search Engine Journal, Yahoo has lost some PageRank in their Yahoo Directory as seen in the screen shot on the article.Sometimes things like this are a little fluky, what do you think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2007 - 2:52 am
Posted By: rustybrick 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo wants to trademark the word "RISING" in all Caps. Nice find by Gary, again...

'From the way the application categories read, Yahoo is planning to launch a service to search service (and multimedia) for psychic phenomenon and disturbances a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nowsourcing 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Unbelievable. According to reports, many Yahoo! store merchants were going strong with their “cyber Monday” sales and suddenly the Yahoo! Stores have gone down. Some merchants report that they have lost more than 4 hours’ worth of online sales. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
In the future, Yahoo! mail will include a feed of info about your friends' activities, just like Facebook..In addition to a Facebook type friend feed, Yahoo! says that profile pages will proliferate. Click on anyone's name and you'll be able to see read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 203 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Jerry Yang pens a letter to worried shareholders, pledging much Yahoo growth to come and that it will be a "must buy" advertising venue. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yeepage 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Analysts are predicting large growth in 2008 in the U.S. graphical ad market, and expect the biggest winner of the bunch to be Yahoo. JP Morgan forecasts an $8.6 billion industry in 2008, which is an increase of about 20% over 2007. The average CPM read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
"What does Saddam Hussein, Britney Spears, Harry Potter and recycling all have to do with each other? They all made the Top Trends in Yahoo Search in 2007 list." read more »
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