Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag
Oct 14, 2009 at 2:31pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Oh, that this weren't true. Last week, Yahoo made news by disclosing that it had quietly dropped support for the meta keywords tag. As a long time hater of that tag and the insane questions it has produced, I was thrilled! But today, I see conclusively that Yahoo still supports the tag.
The test was simple. I placed a unique word in the meta keywords tag on the home page of Search Engine Land. This word -- xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk -- generated no results on Yahoo when I looked earlier this week. Today, when I searched, it brought back the Search Engine Land home page. Thus, Yahoo indeed ind [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
Yahoo Search No Longer Uses Meta Keywords Tag
Oct 6, 2009 at 2:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz
And then there were none. Yahoo has long been the only major search engine that supported the meta keywords tag. However, the search engine revealed today that like the other majors, it no longer supports it.
The news came during the Ask The Search Engines session at SMX East in New York today. The search engines were all asked about their support of the tag. Moderator Danny Sullivan noted that only Yahoo provided support of the tag -- prompting Cris Pierry, senior director of search at Yahoo, to announce that support actually had been ended unannounced "several" months ago.
Bing doesn't [...]
Filed in: SEO: General, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
Yahoo Search Update : September 2009
Sep 3, 2009 at 2:19pm ET by Barry Schwartz
The Yahoo Search blog just announced a "weather report" confirming earlier reports of a Yahoo update taking place.
Yahoo said they are "rolling out a web index update over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index."
So be on the look out for any major changes. The last confirmed update prior to this one was in June 2009, so it has been a bit longer than the normal monthly updates we expect from Yahoo. [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Search
Yahoo Search June 2009 Update
Jun 2, 2009 at 3:30pm ET by Barry Schwartz
The Yahoo Search Blog has announced an index and algorithm update, aka a "weather report." Yahoo said, "we’re rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index."
I spotted this update a couple days ago via a WebmasterWorld thread, so now we have official confirmation. The last Yahoo Search update was in early April. [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Search
Yahoo Announces March 2009 Search Update
Apr 8, 2009 at 8:44am ET by Barry Schwartz
A little over a week ago we reported on the March '09 Yahoo Search update. Yahoo has finally confirmed the update with a weather report on the Yahoo Search Blog.
Dan Rampton from Yahoo Search said:
We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.
I checked the forums this morning and found no new discussion around Yahoo Search. This implies to me that the update is over and I do [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: SEO
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