‘Yahoo’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Adding an image to a blog post can add interest and help get the point across effectively and can make a post look more attractive to visitors. Finding the exactly the right image takes imagination flare and a knowledge of copyright restrictions. There are many times where the image you want to use is subject to copyright and cannot be used. You can now cut out your frustration by using Yahoo’s creative commons image filter. Creative commons is a licensing which allows use of the copyright owners work under certain restrictions. Creative Commons license fall into one of four different types: Attribution…

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Excerpt: This is not really new but it is really useful and something that many SEOs are unaware of. We all know about Google’s advanced search operators that allow you to refine your search in such a way as to search for links in Google and pages that have been indexed. Yahoo’s Site Explorer offers an easy to use link finder but two search modifiers are available from the Yahoo search bar. These are: site: linkdomain: Used in combination they can be used to create powerful link analysis queries. linkdomain:seothegame.com -site:seothegame.com This will create a search for the links that are connected to the domain…

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Excerpt: News of how Google and Yahoo index web sites. Suppose you want to sell your product to several different countries that speak the same language.  To get the best from local search and domain authority one would need to have separate websites with completely different content. However, this seems ridiculous. Re-write the entire content because the search engine might think that you are spamming by only changing country specific variations in language and currency. Fortunately, search engineers Greg Grothaus and Priyank Garg at Google and Yahoo respectively said that this is no longer the case.  Previously, I and many other SEO’s…

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Excerpt: The three major search engines: Live, Yahoo and Google have agreed to adopt a new standard to highlight URLs that contain duplicate content. Duplicate content issues often occur when the same pages of content is accessed can be reached by multiple URLs or session IDs, particularly common in e-commerce sites, for example, where the same product might exist in different categories. There was always a concern that this could result in duplicate content penalties. The new attribute value is ‘canonical’ is used with the rel attribute in the links tag. It specifies the location of the page that this is a…

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Excerpt: As a postscript to my last post, I cited how one could use Yahoo Answers as a  legitimate source of relevant traffic. If you have a website in that niche area of the question, I believe it is valid to add a link to it, even though it will be no-followed. Nothing black-hat about that. When I logged into today, I find that my account was suspended. Naturally, I am pretty miffed. Searching for ‘Yahoo Answers account suspended’, it appears that there are a lot of sad cliquey losers that use this service and run multiple IDs. They can gang-report you…