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« on: February 26, 2010, 06:11:54 PM » |
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I just did a search for the phrase 'real estate' on Yahoo. It's about a broad a term as you can get, and boy are their results lousy. Coming up at #9 was the domain dora sells homes.com (remove spaces). The home page is essentially a splash page, and their are only 26 inbound links to the site. So how the heck does it get a top 10 ranking for that term? Does Yahoo consider the title tag that important?
I noticed something else when I did that search. Beginning on page two of the results I began seeing local sites show up in the organic results. Interesting.
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« on: February 26, 2010, 06:11:54 PM » |
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2010, 11:35:42 AM » |
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That's why Google is the king these days!  |
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2010, 03:47:40 PM » |
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Very true. I've often found a well established site that gets a great deal of traffic from Google will only see a trickle coming from Yahoo (and bing). I have often wondered if this is because most people are using google but when you consider irrelevant results being returned then it's not surprising.
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HHI Golf Guy
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2010, 07:18:21 PM » |
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What I'm getting at is that Yahoo - and Bing - really ARE that bad.
A few years ago we let an old domain expire that we had no interest in keeping. All the site had on it was brief info about our publishing company and info about our magazines and web sites.
The other day I noticed that site is in the top 15 on Bing for an important local real estate KW phrase. But here's the interesting part: The content that is now on that domain is 2006 content from our main HiltonHead360.com web site!
They went to the Wayback Machine (internet archive), viewed the source of the old pages in the cache, then posted them as a "new" site. Of course, they have straight HTML and none of the PHP or database functions working so even the date on the page is 2006.
There's not much we can do about it except file a DMCA complaint. The current domain owners are in Thailand, and even though the web host is in the US they won't do anything without a DMCA judgement.
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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 06:40:31 AM » |
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Yahoo and Bing gives much value to how old the domain is, even to the extent that these domains now are not existing anymore, plus the fact that some of their contents are not up-to-date and does not comply with the recent knowledge, events, and technology. Even though they contain general knowledge, there are still other better and much updated sites out there which can match the quality of the contents of these out-dated domains.
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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 11:08:11 AM » |
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Now yahoo is using bing search results, so if this problem is with yahoo then definitely same will be with bing also. Google also do the same with some sites, some time value of those 26 link is so much that our 100 links are useless in front of them.
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 01:22:23 PM » |
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Now yahoo is using bing search results, so if this problem is with yahoo then definitely same will be with bing also. Google also do the same with some sites, some time value of those 26 link is so much that our 100 links are useless in front of them.
I know this is in the pipeline but I have yet to see any changes in results for sites I monitor. Rankings are still completley different for Yahoo and Bing. I guess time will tell though huh. |
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 02:29:17 PM » |
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I know US Yahoo results are supposed to be powered by Bing now but something we've been chatting about in the office recently is whether the results will be identical. I wonder if they're leaving any elements of Yahoos algo? If the results are exactly the same then SEO just got a whole lot easier! We've got 2 real players to optimise for and that's it. |
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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2010, 09:50:27 PM » |
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yes it certainly would  Mind you, I can't see them being identical to be honest. |
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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2010, 09:50:27 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2011, 10:45:03 AM » |
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I have often found a well established site that receives a large amount of traffic Google will only see a trickle from Yahoo. I've often wondered if this is because most people are using Google, but if we take into account irrelevant results are returned then it is not surprising.
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« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2012, 03:28:08 PM » |
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Google is always changing the games.
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