‘Yahoo’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Yahoo Answers allows people ask and answer questions on a variety of subjects. For those that don’t know about it, someone asks a question (they are  usually quite simple questions). The question remains open for a set period of time usually , meaning that anyone with a Yahoo ID can answer. After this time the question is subject to voting where users which have reached level 2 are allowed to vote on the answers and eventually a best answer is chosen. After this the question is closed and no more answers can be added. Use the search facility to find open questions on…

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Excerpt: While Google is undoubtedly the dominant search engine and brings in the most traffic for most websites, the dangers of optimising a website for a single search engine are clear. With Google collecting such a lot of user information it is fast becoming a monopolistic power. For small web sites that are just starting, trying to take on Google is tall order and even for well optimised sites there are other ways to bring in traffic to your site. Submitting your site to many search engines is not going to set the world on fire but at the same time it should…

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Excerpt: While carrying out a search using Yahoo, I noticed that Yahoo supports advanced query modification in a similar way that Google does. With some trial and error I have discovered the following operators seem to work: intext:query – finds the search query text within a document. anchor:query – finds the search term within the URL of the document. intitle:query – finds the search term within the title of the document. site:query – send you to the yahoo site explorer where you can find links and pages indexed by Yahoo. I could not find any documentation for these operators, but it could be a feauture that…

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Excerpt: Introduction When you are looking at a site for the first time or you need to see how your SEO campaign is going you can get an idea of the strength of a site to a indeed your competitors site using a backlink analysis program. There are quite a few out there. The basic information you need to know include: the number of links pointing to the site, the link URL, the anchor text, the number of outbound links, whether the link is followed or not. Additional useful information would include a measure of the link quality. Most use PageRank either from…

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Excerpt: It is reported in the Yahoo blog, that a survey found that 85% of people need help with searches. To answer this problem, Yahoo introduced Yahoo Assist in 2007, which became global in March 2008.  For those that haven’t used it, it is simply a means of suggesting searches related to what you are currently typing. As shown below: I am trying to use Yahoo on a more regular basis so that I spread my searches over more than one search engine. I would advise anyone else to do the same just to get a feeling for the major search engines…