Yahoo! Playing With Algorithm

**VegasMack** · 02-21-2005, 04:49 AM

Well Yahoo! is playing with their algorithm.

This morning I saw never seen before SERPs when checking

**HHI Golf Guy** · 02-21-2005, 05:23 AM

Our first page results are still the same for our 3 primary KW's. ("We're #1! We're #1!).

My big beef with Yahoo is that they take forever to index and rank new sites.

**VegasMack** · 02-21-2005, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by HHI Golf Guy

Our first page results are still the same for our 3 primary KW's. ("We're #1! We're #1!).

My big beef with Yahoo is that they take forever to index and rank new sites.

Congrats on the #1!

Well they must just be doing it in some markets (or it hasn

**ffang2** · 02-21-2005, 12:46 PM

Mack,

I don't notice any difference in the top 10. Your group of sites is still #1, #3, #5, and #13........

Your seeing something totally different from this?

**Las Vegas Homes** · 02-21-2005, 04:54 PM

Yahoo is tweaking an algo. I think they are testing this on a few DCs. Over the last couple of days Yahoo has increased its pages indexed from 2 mill to over 6 mill. They seem to be following google everytime google increases its index so does yahoo and then the dust settles.

**HHI Golf Guy** · 02-22-2005, 02:48 AM

It does look like Y! is beginning to bring new and updated pages into their index. Unlike Google (which constantly indexes and updates new sites), Yahoo bots seem to gather information that is "stored" by Yahoo. Every 4-7 weeks Yahoo takes the new and updated pages and populates them in their main index.

**VegasMack** · 02-22-2005, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by ffang2

Mack,

I don't notice any difference in the top 10. Your group of sites is still #1, #3, #5, and #13........

Your seeing something totally different from this?

Yes ffang2 I am on a different DC an am seeing completely different results.

~VegasMack

**judyo** · 02-22-2005, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by HHI Golf Guy

It does look like Y! is beginning to bring new and updated pages into their index. Unlike Google (which constantly indexes and updates new sites), Yahoo bots seem to gather information that is "stored" by Yahoo. Every 4-7 weeks Yahoo takes the new and updated pages and populates them in their main index.

Maybe that's why I had been #1 on Yahoo for certain kw's for a long time (under my old domain name) but recently fell to #6 & my old domain is still showing even though my new domain is cached. My old domain has a 301 permanent redirect to the new domain. Google & MSN show my new domain.

**apascu** · 02-25-2005, 09:53 AM

I've been pretty disappointed with Yahoo as of late, too. I hope they get their algorithm right because I find all kinds of irrelevant searches. They also tend to pull up internal pages more often - anyone else finding this to be true?

**HHI Golf Guy** · 02-25-2005, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by apascu

They also tend to pull up internal pages more often - anyone else finding this to be true?

That's a good thing. Let's say you sell in 5 or 6 different towns in your area. You can create 5 or 6 pages and optimize one town for each page. That's much easier than trying to optimize your main page for 5 or 6 towns.

We also use this method to optimize for names of private communities and developments.