There are many individuals who cannot comprehend who or what selects the top stories for their front page. And now with the recent announcement that Yahoo! is employing automated algorithms that operate in real time, we know how stories are picked. (more…)
Originally posted 2008-07-28 08:23:42.
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Yahoo! filed a patent application on May 12, 2005 for using My Yahoo! data to help improve search relevancy. Bill Slawski links to the patent and reviews it at:
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24500
The major search engines are working hard to get a large enough collection of user data to be able to use it to augment link analysis in determining search relevancy.
Originally posted 2008-06-19 01:43:24.
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……continued from PART 1
At the 2004 Las Vegas WebmasterWorld World of Search Conference, Yahoo! stated that they prefer if you have somewhat shallow directory paths of three or so levels deep or less.
example 1:
www.mysite.com/cheese/cheddar/sharp/yummie.html = good
example 2:
www.mysite.com/chs/chd/shrp/eat/now/today/yummie.html = bad
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Originally posted 2008-06-13 23:06:23.
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Backlinks is another way of saying "links into a page".
When you check backlinks in Google (link:www.whateversite.com,) it only shows a small sampling of your total backlinks. Many links that do not show up when you use the "link:" function in Google still count for your relevancy scoring. In addition, there is a time delay between when links are created and when they will show up in search results.
To get a more accurate picture of links, you will also want to check backlinks using Yahoo! or MSN. Yahoo! typically shows many more backlinks than Google. The code to check Yahoo! backlinks to a site is "linkdomain:www.site.com."
Originally posted 2008-03-11 02:14:43.
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Yahoo's patent applications provides a list of 51 web page elements that can be analyzed to determine the clutter of a web page:
Originally posted 2008-05-09 14:08:10.
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Yahoo! has a tool called Yahoo! Mindset that allows you to place greater emphasis on commercial or informational results.
By default, Google tends to bias the search results heavily toward informational resources. This makes business sense for them for many reasons:
Originally posted 2008-06-09 08:21:20.
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Recently in July 2008 it was reported that Google was top of the list in terms of total web searched that occurred in the previous month of June at an amazing but not surprising amount of 61.5%. A little lower down, Yahoo! ranked second with (more…)
Originally posted 2008-08-08 18:29:48.
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Yahoo! was awarded yet another patent and this time it is for coming up with a technique that will elaborate how text links usage is vital in raising relevancy of a certain webpage. Six years after filing the patent in 2002, Yahoo! is now owner of that particular method after they bought over the now extinct Altavista. (more…)
Originally posted 2008-07-29 22:20:59.
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Since different search engines weigh different parts of their algorithms differently, they can all have similar relevancy while having significantly different search results.
Some people are quick to ask how their sites are being penalized in one search engine because they rank well in others. While many sites do get penalized for aggressive spamming techniques, most sites that do not rank well usually just fail to satisfy the specific ranking algorithm for that specific engine in question.
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Originally posted 2008-06-25 02:39:30.
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