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Topics related to getting listed for free through Yahoo Search. For more background, see Yahoo SEO news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Some SEO Tips for yahoo :) Nothng Flashy but hope it helps few... read more »
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David Harry writes, "Yahoo wants your SEO job. You may remember last year (Feb 08) when we looked at Microsoft’s SEO Program and at the time it seemed a strange conflict of interest. There are certainly the same set of questions surrounding any sear read more »
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"Once more, it cannot be stressed enough, that following search patents should be part of any fastidious SEOs ongoing education. They help not only understand search engines, but can give a glimpse of potential processes in the future"...definitely read more »
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Yahoo! Web Analytics is an enterprise site analytics tool that provides real-time insight into visitor behavior on your website. With powerful and flexible tools and dashboards, Yahoo! Web Analytics helps online marketers and website designers enhan read more »
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Yahoo! updates! their! index!. Check! your! rankings! now! read more »
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Yahoo! Buzz and all of Yahoo's millions of daily visitors are now open to all website publishers, how can you benefit from it? Now any website publisher can hit Yahoo's front page with a little quality content and a lot of votes. Learn how to start read more »
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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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Yahoo! Local adds Web References and imports reviews just like Google Local now. The article summarizes what this means for Local SEO and the impact this has on rankings. read more »
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I've been playing around with Yahoo Site Explorer for a while now and looking at the backlinks that various sites have. It's a handy tool, but it does have its limitation (not least that it only allows you to view 1000 backlinks). But for getting a read more »
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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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Another excellent chat by EE. We learn that Yahoo sometimes ignores the NOINDEX tag, is relying less on links in its algorithm today than before, and that social sites like del.icio.us can impact the Yahoo algorithm. (and more!) read more »
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Yahoo has announced yet another Yahoo Search index update. Yahoo notified that "may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index." But as of this morning, no SEO has noticed any significant changes with their rankings. read more »
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Yahoo recently started adding "Dangerous Downloads" to their SERP's. Why keep those pages in the index? read more »
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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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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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With SearchMonkey, you can enhance your LinkedIn listing (in addition to many other listings). Here's a before and after screenshot. read more »
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Earlier this week, different sources were reporting the lost of pagerank in Yahoo!’s directory. Was it a penalty or something else…looks like it was something else. read more »
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Just a few weeks ago, people started noticing that the Yahoo Directory lost Google PageRank. Well, not the home page of the Yahoo Directory, but the inside directory listing pages. The pages that link to your site and, in the past, past PageRank and read more »
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Yahoo opens Yahoo Search Gallery for public to use in Yahoo Search Engine read more »
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Yahoo's Jeffrey Revoy told Web User: "SearchMonkey benefits both website owners and users by serving enhanced listings which enable everyone to receive better and more relevant search results first time." read more »
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Yahoo is rolling out a natural update. read more »
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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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A rundown of the Yahoo SearchMonkey launch party, and what small businesses can do to take advantage of the new enhanced search results SearchMonkey offers. read more »
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Links represent the largest factor of the ranking system for the most popular search engines. Yet link building can be tedious, and mind-numbing. How do you motivate your link marketers?

With the proper incentives, you can keep your link marketer read more »
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Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings I (and many other SEO’s) routinely tell clients and readers to join. read more »
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