SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 5, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Yahoo Directory
7 Things I Love About Small Business SEO
It’s Valentine’s Day, and what better day to give a big smooch to small businesses? Having worked exclusively with small businesses for the first nine years of my online marketing career, and with several small business owners in my family, I have a lot of appreciation for the hard work it takes to succeed. The […]
Yahoo Tests Delicious Integration In Search Results
Yahoo has sent word that they are testing integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarking site within the Yahoo search results pages. For some users, a search will now show whether a page listed in Yahoo results is also on Delicious and how it has been tagged. It brings back memories of Yahoo My […]
There’s No Such Thing As A Worthless Link
With certain linking strategies under fire and others frowned on by the search engines, I thought I’d focus on what links do count and share how and where I find them. The short answer to the question “what works” is: they all do. All the link building tactics we’re fond of jeering at still work; […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo Directory Places Images On Sponsored Ads
Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings from Search Engine Journal reports the Yahoo Directory is displaying image ads near the sponsored results. The images appear on the left hand side of each sponsored result within the directory pages. The images appear to be hosted by ImageAdvantage and draw your eyes to those ads. For […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines
I’m having a bad day. Aside from my desktop crashing, we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching pad for a series of videos on how Facebook potentially could be a killer search engine — regardless of the fact he seems to […]
Yahoo Monday: Today’s Google Free Alternative
As part of our Google Free Mondays series this month, today is the day to try Yahoo. What are Google Free Mondays all about? My past post explains the intent of the series more. The short scoop is NOT to be anti-Google but rather stress that trying alternatives is good, because there might be something […]
Google Checkout’s Title Goes Missing On Google
Something look odd in the search results for google checkout? Yes, that’s the official Google Checkout home page listed first, but it’s most definitely NOT the right title for the Google Checkout page. That’s got folks at Digg wondering if Google Checkout has been hijacked, sparked from Jon West’s original post here. No. It’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yahoo Removes Directory Links From Individual Search Results
Yahoo Removes Category (Directory) Links From Under Search Results at Search Engine Roundtable reports that Yahoo has removed the links from the individual search listings to the Yahoo Directory.
Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More
Last week, I covered a new command for the meta robots tag — one to prevent search engines from using Yahoo titles and descriptions. In doing that, a number of questions came up about the meta robots tag syntax itself. Google Webmaster Central has now posted “Using the robots meta tag,” providing some clarity from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yahoo Provides NOYDIR Opt-Out Of Yahoo Directory Titles & Descriptions
Yahoo! Search Support for ‘NOYDIR’ Meta Tags and Weather Update from the Yahoo Search Blog covers how at long last, you can now tell Yahoo to not use Yahoo Directory information to make a title and/or description for your web page listings. It also cover how Yahoo’s currently doing a reindexing change that might impact […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 18, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yahoo Says No Directory Tag Coming January 2007
I reported this morning at Search Engine Roundtable that Tim Mayer from Yahoo posted in a WebmasterWorld thread saying support for a “No Yahoo Directory” tag will be coming this January. A No Yahoo Directory tag will enable webmasters to tell Yahoo not to use their Yahoo Directory title in the search results. Yahoo began […]