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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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Avatar Posted By: pratt 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member stating that although his site was banned from Yahoo! Search and was denied re-inclusion into Yahoo's index, he was still able to guarantee inclusion through Yahoo's paid inclusion program.

Now tha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:35 pm
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 542 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 Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 539 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Yahoo update underway and due to finish the weekend of 21/22 July 07.

Yahoo wants feedback at: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/webmaster/webmaster-01.html read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 535 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
After wrongly assuming some new features in my account were part of Yahoo's current site maintenance, I realised it was because I've recently submitted my site to Yahoo Site Explorer. This post now lists 5 reasons why you should authenticate your si read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jstrebel 535 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://obusearch.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A little brag post. The rankings were a long time coming. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: CarrieHill 520 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
In part one of this series I helped everyone update their Google Local listing. This installment goes through Yahoo! Local and at the end I give some sites where you should consider checking & updating your IYP & other local/social search engine li read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesOmdahl 518 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insuremeblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A good example of what it looks like when the Yahoo! search results are out of whack. Also, accusations that Matt Cutts is made of liquid metal. Zoinks! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2007 - 11:37 am
Posted By: rustybrick 506 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: patrickaltoft 506 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Today comes a new dawn for search engines with the first-ever Beta launch of 'Dynamic URL Rewriting' in Site Explorer. The new feature provides the ability for site owners to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they'd like Yahoo! to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 505 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo SEO
I have submitted news sitemaps through Google Webmaster Tools which have proven to be successful. (Thanks Google, you guys and gals rock!) So I thought to myself "I wonder if these XML news sitemaps would work in Yahoo! Site Explorer?" So far, after read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 505 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Yahoo update and improved crawling coming. If, like me, you noticed Yahoo Slurp going mental last week then Yahoo's promise of more sane crawling is welcome!

Yahoo say, "We had a brief bout of increased crawl load while testing and rolling out u read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 500 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Dan Thies expresses slight gratitude to Yahoo for the recent "enhancement" to Site Explorer, but points out that it's meaningless until all the search engines come together on a standard. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2007 - 11:21 pm
Posted By: charropower 499 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: mjasra 497 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://manojjasra.blogspot.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Is Yahoo's search algorithm assigning low relevancy to blogspot blogs? Over the last 4 months, the number of Yahoo! referrals in relation to all search engine referrals to my blog has been 2% whereas Google's share is over 80%. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 491 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
People are noticing that their Yahoo Directory titles are showing in Yahoo Search results even though they have added the NOYDIR tag to their site. This seems to be a new occurrence. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 479 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo SEO
Is this the end of classic tool? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2007 - 7:52 pm
Posted By: DamnDomainer 477 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 Posted By: AriShohat 473 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo SEO
For many days now a number of people have speculated the tool has been either in a broken state or otherwise disabled. I personally didn't see any official notice of it being disabled, but for those who worried about it, I see it's working fine read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 27, 2007 - 11:37 am
Posted By: aimClear 470 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 Posted By: timcohn 470 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Since you never know what you are going to get from Yahoo's updates, shouldn't Yahoo just call theirs a ha!gorithm? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 470 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: todd 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
We've rolled out some changes to our index with fresh web data and updates to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We expect the update will be completed very soon. Throughout this process you may see some changes in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 7:36 am
Posted By: EricLander 464 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 Posted By: Eloi 464 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
It's time to have a good look at your results in Yahoo, as Yahoo changes the formula of its algorythm today, and promises "more relevant answers to queries and integrates audio, video and photo into its results page".

Lets just hope these changes read more »
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Avatar Posted By: floppy 457 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lobolinks.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Is yahoo measuring quantity vs quality? Some big sites have dropped a mass amount of backlinks. What happened here? Is this a fluke or a backlink update?

Did your site suffer any? read more »
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