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Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 12:29 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 331 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: seanmag 80 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 7:36 am
Posted By: EricLander 341 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: ViperChill 53 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: April 14, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: rustybrick 146 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 194 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 27, 2007 - 11:37 am
Posted By: aimClear 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Aaron Wall just posted anecdotes about some pretty big shifts in Yahoo rankings (including screwed up 301 redirects) and is asking for our input. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 4, 2008 - 9:27 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
These patent documents provide a peek at how some data collected about how people use the Web, and about the Web itself, may impact both search and advertising on the Web. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 1:13 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 194 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
That's right -- you heard it correctly -- the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be open. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:35 pm
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.threadwatcher.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Why is Yahoo! Site Explorer now adding this parameter to searches: “fr2=seo-rd-se”?

UPDATE: Since ThreadWatcher.com seems to be down for good, I'll go ahead and recreate my findings here.
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - How well can an algorithm determine how “cluttered” a web page is, as opposed to an actual person making the same determination? That’s hard to say for certain. With so many pages on the web, asking people to review pages for clut read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2007 - 7:52 pm
Posted By: DamnDomainer 354 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.damndomainer.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
When used properly, Yahoo answers can actually send more free targeted traffic than Yahoo organic search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2007 - 11:37 am
Posted By: rustybrick 383 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Too lazy to do 301s? Have Yahoo do them for you... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
When Aaron Wall talks, the SEO community listens. Mr. Wall has recently noticed some major changes in the Yahoo ranking algorithm which could have a major effect on sites which enjoy Yahoo rankings, or can’t seem to break the Yahoo Top 20. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Good roundup post from Ann Smarty with Firefix extensions to help you get more out of Yahoo Site Explorer. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: annie7 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
How might a search engine verify page ranking results of a search algorithm with respect to the specific needs or characteristics of specific groups of users? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2007 - 11:21 pm
Posted By: charropower 376 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Is Yahoo trying to confuse users with their organic results ?? Reading the Scott Hendison blog, I found another great finding about Yahoo Organic Results and Yahoo! Shortcut... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 298 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.platinax.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Looks like Yahoo! have changed how they treat 301 redirects, with the destination site now being listed instead of the redirect source. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Lengthy interview with Yahoo's Brian Gil about Yahoo! Local, local search tactics, reviews and ratings, and much more. "Do we spend too much time focusing on reviews?" Yep, we do..... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Bill Slawski talks about Yahoo possibly using information gathered from their toolbars and browser plugins to personalize and refine search results, but also to provide "Yahoo Answers" answers.

Bill rules! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A post in which I talk about a brand new site with low quantity and quality of inbound links, no click-thru data, and no other evidence to suggest it should rank well for a fairly competitive term. Yet it does. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Earlier this year Yahoo came out with a patent on Personalized PageRank... now they are adding to the mix with HarmonyRank.... but does it mean relevance for the end user? We shall see.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hugoguzman 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Though Barry claims that he reported it, this topic was manifested by a discussion between Hugo Guzman and Tristan Panasik from DigitalGrit.

It was then carried over to WebmasterWorld, where Lord Majestic shed additional light on the nature of t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
-SEO by the SEA - Bill takes a look at a new patent from Yahoo on AdServing...

Imagine that someone types in a query at a search engine, and a page from your web site shows up in the results. In addition to a link to your page, there’s an animat read more »
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Avatar Posted By: webconnoisseur 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Vanessa provides more details about the Yahoo Search Monkey project which features microformats and better symantics which may change some SEO tactics for Yahoo. Another layer of complexity for SEOs, but another opportunity to improve your rankings read more »
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