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Yahoo’s Directory Worth Submitting To?
There are numerous reasons for webmasters to submit their sites to various web
directories populating the Internet.
Info.com:
Consumer Focused Meta Search
Recently, a new meta search engine was launched under the name of Info.com. For
those unaware, meta search engines pool the results of other search engines (Google,
Yahoo) into a single result set.
Google
Rekindling the Microsoft Fire
Google … The All Powerful Microsoft Killer … Tell us it ain’t true Bill. The revenue
growth, the huge profits and great new products like Desktop Search have created
a buzz like the Internet has not seen since Marc Andreesen stumbled upon Netscape. |
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Google Results Vs Yahoo Results
According to a Nielsen//Netratings
study, Google holds the top spot for search engine destinations. However,
if you take a closer look at N//N's findings, you see that Yahoo and MSN share
the second and third positions, respectively. Because MSN search is still using
Overture to serve their search results more people are vicariously using the Yahoo
method of search than they do Google.
What search results do you prefer or find more relevant? Yahoo/Overture or
Google? Share your thoughts at WebProWorld.
To most in the search industry, it is common knowledge that Google values "off-page"
optimization (backlinks, in-bound links), while Yahoo seems to prefer on-page
optimization (title tags, keyword density). Although there are some indications
that Yahoo is placing more value
on links.
This topic of search engine preference has been discussed extensively. In this
WebProWorld forum
thread, a comment about using both engines equally and receiving satisfactory
results was made, leading to a discussion about the relevancy of Google's results.
Poster Downstrike had these thoughts:
 "Time
was - and it was quite some time - Google was the best place to do most any search.
The kind of people who send spam to our Inboxes quickly realized that sending
spam to our search results was even better.
[In this regard,] Google's reaction [has been similar to] email networks trying
to filter out virus messages. For several months earlier this year, they were
filtering out more legitimate emails with attachments than viruses… If you want
to see all of the best results, you'll need to get a second opinion. In your case,
it's Yahoo."
Several forum participants share Strike's opinion with comments like; "Google
is slowly dropping the ball" and "I agree that Google is not the same it used
to be".
Yahoo's results didn't necessarily receive the highest marks either. On ihelpyou,
moderator Chrishirst said, "IMO, Yahoo results seem to be more about the $$$ than
relevancy and notably the same site doesn't even appear in the first couple of
hundred results at Google." If you take a quick scan of the SEO forums, the Yahoo
categories are littered with topics like, "I've just lost all my Yahoo listings.
Please help." These situations indicate that each engine still has some growing
pains to work through.
Which set of results do you find more useful? In the WebProWorld
discussion, Venividi summed the state of search results quite nicely, "Normal
sites are buried deep beyond the first 6 to 10 pages. Google and Yahoo have become
a list of portals and other search engines, which is really a waste of time."
 To
be fair, Google results aren't the only ones being taken to task. In a post on
WebmasterWorld, Isitreal offered a scathing evaluation of search engine users,
"Who uses Yahoo/MSN? People who don't change their default browser search settings.
IE is set to MSN. Yahoo website users [use Yahoo search], and that portal [has]
heavy traffic… People who know nothing about search engines, and just [search
with] what they're used to."
Another poster on WebProWorld defends Google, saying, "Until MSN and Yahoo can
update their results daily (like Google does) they will not compare to the big
G." However, the point made about results updating is disputed in the HighRankings
forum, where Semko says, "Yahoo search results are very dynamic, they get updated
nearly every second, as tons of info are constantly added to Yahoo." The truth
undoubtedly lies somewhere in between.
With the increased search engine bot activity Google and Yahoo may be trying to
streamline their indexes in order to root out spam and provide more relevant results.
In the end, it comes down to preference. The search engine gives you the results
you are looking for, no matter your level of experience, is likely to be the one
you use.
The question remains,
which engine gives you these results?
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Jumpstart
your Link Building (without getting sandboxed)
By Andy
Hagans
Link popularity has been written about ad nauseum, but most articles address the
subject from a perspective circa 2001. The available information usually focuses
on topics such as reciprocal linking or the current price of a PR6 link. But following
outdated link building advice is more likely to get your Web site penalized than
it is to help you gain top rankings.
Google's increasingly sophisticated algorithm has largely caught on to PageRank
brokers and has successfully filtered out the benefits of many bought links, as
well as those of reciprocal links. The risk of obtaining these types of links
is even greater for a new site, as detection of an "unnatural" link structure
has recently gotten many sites "sandboxed" to the bottom of the SERPs. For this
reason, a link popularity campaign must be conducted carefully and yield relevant,
"natural" links.
The methods described in this article will give your Web site backlinks that fit
the following criteria, which are important for keeping a site out of the "sandbox":
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the Full Article
About the Author:
Andy Hagans is a search engine optimization consultant who specializes in link
building and risk management. Visit http://www.andyhagans.com/
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Out with the old in with the new.
Our post today comes from sjk.
About three or four years ago they changed
a website from static html pages over to dynamic ones that were automatically
generated. After the site was redone they left the old static html pages up on
the server, and everything
worked fine. Recently however, they removed those static html pages and changed
the dynamic pages back to static ones for SEO purposes. Google seems to have handled
the changes really
well, but all the rest seem to want to hold on to the older pages. Their question
now is how can they get the new pages indexed and the old
pages removed from the search engines. Think you can help sjk with their problem?
Tell us your thoughts
at WebProWorld.
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Slurp
and 404s w/ meta refresh redirect
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sjk
I'm hoping someone may have some insight on this. I changed this website for the
Great Lakes Cisco Users Group [www.glcug.com] from your standard HTML pages (which
were in the root directory) to dynamic content. I did this about 3 or 4 years
ago. It was a good three months ago when I finally deleted all the pages in the
root directory that were of the old website and changed most of the dynamic content
pages (which happened to be .php extensions) to static .html pages using mod_rewrite
to allow better indexing for SEs. ..Which googlebot handled and continues to index
beautifully, by the way.
My question is this, how in the heck can I get Inktomi Slurp to drop all the old
pages and index the new website? I've submitted it about 5 or 6 times in the last
three months and the bot is scanning my site about once or twice a week, but the
search results only contain all the old pages. There's probably about 2 pages
of listings on Yahoo! ...
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