Yahoo: SEO

Yahoo 2016 Year in Review: ‘2016 Election’ top search term & ‘Election Day’ No. 1 news story

Yahoo says "Donald Trump" ranked as its second most popular search of the year, while "Hillary Clinton" barely made the top 10....

Amy Gesenhues | Dec 7, 2016 at 11:10 am ET

Yahoo testing new search bar with logo on the right, not the left

Days after Verizon announces it will acquire Yahoo, Yahoo is testing a new search bar at the top with a missing logo at the...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 1, 2016 at 9:01 am ET

Yahoo Image Search Adds Personalized Photos From Your Flickr Collection

Flickr users can now search Yahoo Image Search and find images from their own personal collection or their friends' collections, if there are...

Barry Schwartz | Nov 6, 2015 at 1:24 pm ET

Yahoo Says It Has Its Own Algorithm For Mobile Search Results

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer says they have their own mobile search algorithm which helps them provide a unique search experience for their...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 21, 2015 at 9:11 am ET

Yahoo Has Their Own Knowledge Graph, Not Without Their Own Embarrassing Issues

Yahoo has their own knowledge graph box at the top of the search results, but some of the results make you wonder if they need to rethink their...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 14, 2015 at 9:07 am ET

Study: Top 5 Search Engines See Search Traffic Drop By As Much As 31% Since December 2013

A newly released report from Shareaholic claims the top five search engines — Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL — have all...

Amy Gesenhues | Jun 24, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

A Marketer’s Guide To Using Regular Expressions In SEO

Regular expressions (regex) are one of the most powerful tools we have in our SEO arsenal,  but they’re incredibly intimidating! Here are...

Jenny Halasz | Jun 9, 2014 at 9:50 am ET

US Senate Committee Asks Google, Yahoo & Bing To Fight Bait-And-Switch Moving Scams

The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation has written to the major US search engines of Google, Yahoo and Bing asking...

Danny Sullivan | Sep 26, 2012 at 12:00 am ET

The Difference In Keyword Research For SEO vs. PPC

Often when I complete a keyword research project for a client, they ask me about keywords I may not have included, or they want to know what the...

Jenny Halasz | Aug 28, 2012 at 11:11 am ET

Bing Webmaster Tools Integrates Yahoo Traffic Data

Bing Webmaster Tools now has fully integrated in Yahoo’s traffic numbers as well. So if you have seen a spike in your Bing Webmaster Tools...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 25, 2011 at 9:54 am ET

Google Showing “Total Links” & Yahoo Fixes Site Explorer, Plus More SEO Topics

In the past week, several SEO related topics are in need of summarizing. Here is a list of quick SEO takes in bullet format, for you busy SEOs...

Barry Schwartz | Nov 1, 2010 at 9:27 am ET

Official: Yahoo’s Results Now Come From Bing

Yahoo just announced the transition from Yahoo Search powered results to Bing powered organic Yahoo search results is now complete. The search...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 24, 2010 at 12:34 pm ET

Yahoo Using Search To Help Determine News Coverage

Yahoo has been investing in news, including original content development. Consistent with its content strategy the company paid roughly $100...

Greg Sterling | Jul 5, 2010 at 11:00 am ET

Yahoo Publishes Online Style Guide As Printed Book, Gives SEO Advice

On July 6th, you’ll be able to purchase a printed book written by Yahoo called The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for...

Vanessa Fox | Jun 30, 2010 at 11:13 am ET

Yahoo Search Update: 4/29/2010 Weather Report

Yahoo announced a new search index and algorithm update today. The update involves crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms changes over the...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 29, 2010 at 11:11 am ET

March 2010 Yahoo Search Update

Yahoo announced a search update to their index. The update includes possible updates to Yahoo’s crawling, indexing, and ranking...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 11, 2010 at 9:49 am ET

Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag

More than a year since the three major search engines united to announce the canonical tag, neither Bing nor Yahoo formally support it. But that...

Matt McGee | Mar 5, 2010 at 8:37 am ET

Finally! Yahoo Search Weather Report : January 2010

The Yahoo Search Blog dusts itself off to announce a search update happening right now. The last “weather report” Yahoo announced...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm ET

Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag

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...

Danny Sullivan | Oct 14, 2009 at 2:31 pm ET

Yahoo Search No Longer Uses Meta Keywords Tag

And then there were none. Yahoo has long been the only major search engine that supported the meta keywords tag. However, the search engine...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 6, 2009 at 2:15 pm ET