Yahoo! Organic Listings Disappear in Certain Markets

May 31, 2007 1 comment

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How To Distinguish Paid vs Organic Listings
A lot of people probably don’t even realize that the listings are paid and not organic. The listings themselves may look the same if the manager has used the same Titles & Descriptions for their pages. You can be identify these paid listings by this in the [...]

Yahoo’s SEO Responds to Cloaking Post

May 24, 2007 6 comments

Laura Lippay, Yahoo’s SEO manager, posted a response to the recent topic about Yahoo! Autos cloaking.
There are dozens of groups within Yahoo who manage hundreds of products and properties that maintain some of the largest, most trafficked sites on the internet consisting of millions of pages and gobs of new content being pushed out all [...]

Yahoo! Caught Cloaking. Will They Ban Themselves?

May 21, 2007 56 comments

I was doing some research to prepare for another post, but to my surprise I found something even juicier. Yahoo! is cloaking their (fixed typo for the professor) Autos pages, serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users. I was browsing as Yahoo!’s Slurp crawler and [...]

Yahoo! May Buy Bebo

May 20, 2007 No comments yet

Just finished reading some speculation and rumors floating around at Mashable.com and Telegraph.co.uk regarding a possible takeover of social networking site Bebo.com by Yahoo!.  It’s not coming cheap either.  Yahoo is reported to be in discussing a $1 billion acquisition.  Telegraph.co.uk reports that Bebo has an estimated 25 million users worldwide, compared with MySpace.com’s 100 [...]

Duplicate Content Misinformation & FUD

May 15, 2007 No comments yet

I just read this article by David Tischler entitled “Beware the Duplicate Content Filter“. The overall message of the post is correct: Proceed with Caution. That said, what he states just isn’t true.
There was one part, however, that made the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Here’s a [...]

MSN, Yahoo, & Google’s Stranglehold on the Market

May 8, 2007 No comments yet

While discussing a vertical search idea with someone, I couldn’t resist thinking about how the idea may be doomed to second-tier success. Before it even began.
No one will topple Google in the search space for the same reason that no one will topple Microsoft in the personal computing space. There was a [...]


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