Wazzup With Yahoo Now?????
 

Hey there SEO'ers,

I went on vacation to Arkansas (of all Places) last week and when I got back to my Serps checking I found that I just got destroyed in Yahoo! When I mean destroyed I mean DESRTOYED!

I went for a #1-#4 position for my main KW to #68!??? I have, for the most part, always done very well on Yahoo.

Anybody else experience this massive shift in your Serps?

This really has me baffled. Slurp has been hitting my site daily and even tho I have a "store" there is a good deal of content and new content being added on a semi-regular basis.

Actually Google and Yahoo are sucking up pages:

Inktomi Slurp 3459+1108 54.86 MB 16 Jul 2006 - 18:32
Googlebot 1641+30 27.77 MB 16 Jul 2006 - 17:53

Anybody with some insight on this phenomenon? I can't see any problems myself.

Thanks in advance all,

Chris

I noticed some minor shifts but all have been positive for me. Not sure what they base the rankings on right now. I am still researching it.

Web Gazelle,

Cool. . . .Somebody else is "on" the mystery too. I'm gonna step back for a day or two and see whet happens. I got "Yahoo On The Brain" right now and I am starting to do full circles in my logic thinking. :confused:

Also I didn't notice the thread right below this one <duh> which I should have hit first.

Chris

I went from #1 and #2 for lot of keywqord to #34, #15, #45...and now they are starting to bounce back up. I even emailed the people at Yahoo and they said there was nothing wrong with my site, so I feel your pain!! I am trying to find out what the change was. I'll definitely let you know anything that I find out.

Jessica Hurff
Director of Relationships
Brightmove, Inc.

Didn't this just happen within the ast couple of days? Is it possible their still updating?

Snap,

You bring up a good point that I over looked. Hell I think I might have even started the thread! However, in the past, I have not seen such dramatic swings in the Serp's.
It particularly affects me as over 20% of my traffic and $$$$ come from Yahoo! Google at 37% now (thank God).

If ya take a peak over at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000327.html
you will see that the vast majority of people are none too happy. My response was:



And mine was one of the "nicer" ones.

Well I'm sticking to my plan and just waiting it out. I am doing well enough on Google that I can lose (but rather not) some traffic from Yahoo.

Chris

P.S. One thing that I do notice is a bunch of brand spankin' new sites that are fresh out of the gate. I did some "WhoIs" and found sites created in may and april. No bl's either. Maybe we should all just start new sites??

I'm the opposite, for whatever reason i have not ranked well in Google since the Florida update several years ago. I have been relying on Yahoo and MSN for most of my traffic. I sure hope it straightens itself out in the next couple of days.

Well i was doin pretty well with yahoo for a very long time, had soo many top 10 spots and since last week there all gone :(

and the funny thing is while dumping the quality sites wit content, they hv put rubbish sites such as MSN groups and geo sites with 1 or 2 pages lol This is rediculous, and there's this other site which has only 2 pages and has Google PR 6 hehehe with over 1500 back links hmmmmm now howz that possible..?

When u do a search on yahoo for "free adult webcams" you get some DNS site as well for domain related services lol

Something is realy wrong :rolleyes:

I had no big placements in yahoo, so I don't have anything to cry about.. I actually LOVE Inktomi since it's the most active bot for my site.. it indexes faster than the other 2..

No change for me. My site is still on 1st page :)