Yahoo's Index has been updated yet again

DMC_34 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-29-2005, 07:15 AM

I am seeing a totally different set of results. Not so sure these changes are very good. Sporadic results at best.

wrmineo · #2 (**permalink**) 07-29-2005, 10:12 AM

Ironically, and this may be purely coincidental, but I'm beginning to see an alignment of my SERP in Y! and Google ... "x" term in Yahoo ranking within one or two positions of the same in Google, despite a vast difference in the number of results.

This is something completely different for me, because I previously kicked butt in Yahoo rankings but lagged at Google. Now, I am ranking better at Google, but see that I've dropped in many cases at Y! ...

I think they [Yahoo!] are trying to better position themselves as a viable alternative, if not serious competitor, to the Google search engine.

I think MSNs new initiatives have all of them scrambling a bit - I love competition!

DMC_34 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-29-2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wrmineo

Ironically, and this may be purely coincidental, but I'm beginning to see an alignment of my SERP in Y! and Google ... "x" term in Yahoo ranking within one or two positions of the same in Google, despite a vast difference in the number of results.

This is something completely different for me, because I previously kicked butt in Yahoo rankings but lagged at Google. Now, I am ranking better at Google, but see that I've dropped in many cases at Y! ...

I think they [Yahoo!] are trying to better position themselves as a viable alternative, if not serious competitor, to the Google search engine.

I think MSNs new initiatives have all of them scrambling a bit - I love competition!

I went from a bunch of top 10 spots to nowhere fast :(

**incrediblehelp** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-30-2005, 05:28 PM

I am hoping they are still updating, some spam has been removed but some of my client results are still not back for one reason or another.

dburdon · #5 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 06:14 AM

All,

see my post regarding backlinks.

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=49789

coder · #6 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 09:41 AM

This is awesome, before we were number 1 out of 13+ million. Now we are #1 out of 33,300,000. Now that carries some bragging rights with it.

dburdon · #7 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 07:26 PM

Phantom,
congratulations on your no.1 status. But does it mean anything? In most markets you are probably only in real competition with half a dozen other contenders. Whether its 3 million or 33 million, its fictional competition.

**incrediblehelp** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 07:32 PM

Phantom I would also hope you would be number since your domain name is the exact keyword your after. You only issue is the un-luckiness to have a very popular software named after your products.

I am sure viagra.com is happy to be number one for the keyword "viagra", but it is not rocket science to figure out why there are there regardless of the competition numbers or efforts.

coder · #9 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Phantom I would also hope you would be number since your domain name is the exact keyword your after. You only issue is the un-luckiness to have a very popular software named after your products.

I am sure viagra.com is happy to be number one for the keyword "viagra", but it is not rocket science to figure out why there are there regardless of the competition numbers or efforts.

I do agree having the domain does help a lot in ranking, but before I started an extensive seo campaign on the site we were not ranked nearly as high as we are now.

Does the owners of computers.com rank #1 for computers?
or does searchengineoptimization.com rank #1 seo.

Having the right domain is only part of the package.

**brian.mark** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Phantom

This is awesome, before we were number 1 out of 13+ million. Now we are #1 out of 33,300,000. Now that carries some bragging rights with it.

Yeah... we are now #1 out of 48,400,000 for tool parts. Excellent. Now, if that were just our primary revenue generating key phrase.

Brian.

megagaldon47 · #11 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005, 02:16 AM

Just a thought to every newbie and SEO clients. Never has the major Search Engines ever deleted their top websites if they created their website according to their prior information and have always kept their word about how to build a website and work with them and build your website along their lines of information. I hate the new Search Engine news that blasts the major search engines and think they have taken advantage of them. Keep your website as you always did in the past, keep FLASH and JAVA from Not letting your potential customers from meeting you that do not still at this date are not connected ask or talk to you about a better place to be.

freehits · #12 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by megagaldon47

Never has the major Search Engines ever deleted their top websites if they created their website according to their prior information and have always kept their word about how to build a website and work with them and build your website along their lines of information.

Well tell that to every update casualty ever. How can millions of sites fall or drop of the map in a major update be guilty of something?

They cant be.

All Quality control seems balanced with a "few acceptable losses" of conforming good sites.

So this post needs some serious rethinking.