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Like many webmasters, I use Yahoo! Site Explorer on a regular basis to check the incoming links for our websites. Last week I noticed a sharp increase in the number of indexed links to our site and after checking the Yahoo! search blog, I can confirm Yahoo! have released an update to their search algorithm.
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With the upcoming…

There has been speculation across various search marketing blogs that Yahoo! has recently updated their ranking algorithm. According to reports on Webmaster World and Digital Point forums, many different webmasters have noticed a change in their Yahoo! rankings.
The update appears to have started around the 29th March and resulted in a general shuffle of the SERPs with no major changes being reported. Here are some reports on the…
Yahoo! have confirmed rumors of a ranking and algorithm update yesterday, with many users noticing changes in their search results since August 1st. Sharad Verma from the Yahoo! search team posted,
“We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but…
Yahoo! have been busy updating their search results index and search engine spider recently, with changes to their ranking algorithm and crawler frequency. This update is especially significant for webmasters as it will change how the Yahoo! spider crawls websites.
A driving force behind the update has been feedback received by Yahoo! from webmasters. Website owners were concerned about the large amount of IP addresses that the Yahoo!…
The Yahoo! Search Blog announced they have completed an update to their algorithm last week. The update is set to effect how their algorithm ranks web pages and determines which sites are included in the search index.
From the Yahoo! Search blog:
“We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking…
Yahoo! have announced a global search update which will begin to re-index the web and result in immediate ranking changes amongst search results. The search update is taking place so Yahoo! can implement a new meta tag, allowing webmasters to decide how their page is shown in search results.
The ‘NOYDIR’ meta tag is the latest to be supported by Yahoo! and will be used to inform the…