A search engine located at http://www.yahoo.com/
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Is Yahoo Search the same as Bing Search now?
We had some serious issues with Yahoo's (incredibly) badly written spider in the past, and as a result we blocked them. Marco Arment of Tumblr also shared his frustrations with us on 8/31/2009, which ...
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Is it common, or “smart”, for high-traffic sites use externally-hosted js/css frameworks?
Many popular JS/CSS frameworks are offered via Google's Libraries API (jQuery, Dojo, MooTools etc.). Yahoo also hosts it's own YUI toolkit, as do many others.
Do any high volume/traffic sites ...
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robots “INDEX,FOLLOW” vs “ALL” is there any difference?
Hey folks,
Is there any if so, what is the difference between these two?
In order to allow everything a search engines wishes for
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">
<META ...
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Does google value blog comments as backlinks?
I recently read an article which said that google doesn't count blog comments as backlinks. I'm not sure about that since, I have 3 sites that rank first with all their backlinks being blog comments. ...
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Just overhauled our entire site. How do I keep Google, Bing and Yahoo from demoting us?
We just overhauled our entire site. The new site structure doesn't resemble the old one in the slightest. What do I need to do with Google, Bing and Yahoo to keep our ranking from sliding?
We have ...
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How do I track Yahoo Adwords campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data?
I'm currently diving into Yahoo's adwords program and am wondering if its possible to track their ad campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data so I can trace my costs to my revenue. Has anyone ...
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What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet
Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian.
Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative ...
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SEO: Firefox addon/plugin to see Google results with a position number?
Do you know a Firefox addon that adds postion number to Google/Yahoo results.
When I do SEO report for www.some-site.com by keyphrase "some-keyphrase" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results ...
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How can I force Yahoo to recrawl a site
I have a site that was hacked (someone hid a bunch of Viagra links and text on my pages). I cleaned it up a few weeks ago, but the Yahoo results are still displaying the Viagra text in their ...
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Is there any reason to allow Yahoo! Slurp to crawl my site?
I thought a year or more ago Yahoo! would be using another search engine for results, and no longer using their own Slurp bot. However, a couple of the sites I manage Yahoo! Slurp continues to crawl ...
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Do Yahoo! and Bing also support pretty AJAX URLs like Google's bot does?
I wonder if Ajax crawling suggested by Google is also applicable to Yahoo and Bing. It seems that only Google can crawl my Ajax page after I implemented that.
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What is good side of PageRank?
I am doing research about backlinks/PR/SEO/Search Result position and all I read about is that PageRank is not important, that it worth before but now it's not important at all.
Only thing I found ...
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SEO: What are SEO benefits of submitting to Yahoo Directory?
How important is Yahoo Directory these days for SEO?
It was important maybe 5 years ago, but what about today?
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Google Instant Preview (Image) - What screen dimension? e.g 1024x768?
I'm wondering what screen dimensions Google Instant Preview takes a snapshot of your website at e.g 1024px x 768px...?
http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews
FYI: ...
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Will Signing up for Yahoo Directory Significantly Improve SERP for a Flex Site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO: What are SEO benefits of submitting to Yahoo Directory?
Is Yahoo Directory worth the $299? Will it generate any traffic?
I've got a Flex 3 site, so unfortunately, ...
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How would you connect 2 mailing lists?
A friend of mine and I have two mailinglists (one on google groups, one on yahoogroups) concerning a similar topic.
It would be convenient to connect those mailing lists, so that every message is ...
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How to Optimize A Site For Yahoo Search?
What are on-site on-page guidelines that can optimize a site for Yahoo search?
Its been over 6 years since I have been running a number of websites and for some reason the traffic and ranking from ...
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Validating sitemap with Yahoo Explorer
I have a sitemap index on my website, which I successfully validated with "Google webmasters tools".
The declarations at the top are:
<sitemapindex ...
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YAHOO and BING support for Index, Image and Mobile sitemaps
I know Google webmaster supports submitting Image, mobile, video and other types of sitemaps. YAHOO also mentions about mobile site map here. But does it support Image and video sitemaps.
I could not ...
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SEO question regarding huge number of URLs
I'm wondering the best way to handle this situation. I'm about to release a new section on a website where there are literally hundreds of millions of URL combinations that can possibly be crawled ...
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Email not sending to/from all Microsoft domains after adding dedicated IP and SSL (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!)
I have never experienced this type of issue before, so I don't know where to begin searching to be able to troubleshoot or fix the problem. Also, I hope this is the correct SE website for this type of ...
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Customized 404 page on yahoo webhosting
I want to add my customized 404 error page. On Apache server an entry made in .htaccess file does this task.I have my website on yahoo web hosting.
Yahoo does not support .htaccess file.
Can anyone ...
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Why has Yahoo only managed to index TWO pages on my site?
I launched my site a few months ago, and Google already has over 1K indexed pages - whereas Yahoo has only managed to index 2 pages (when I check with Yahoo Site Explorer).
I have checked (using ...
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How to resolve canonical issue of a website hosted in yahoo small business (Shared Hosting)
I have a website www.myapp.com hosted in yahoo small business, which is shared hosting and I don't have access to .htaccess file to modify. I called up yahoo team regarding the issue But It cannot be ...
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How to Join Yahoo! Right Media Exchange as a Publisher?
I'm trying to get involved in Right Media as a publisher as an alterntive to adsense and other ad networks. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to signup. I've tried contacting them with no avail.
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Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo [duplicate]
When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas?
Here's my site:mytgp.ph query ...
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How long does it take Google, Yahoo or Bing to reindex my website?
I made some changes recently to my website that were substantial.
My page rank for my business's name is now #1.
However, Google shows wrong information in the search results, as do Bing and Yahoo.
...
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Yahoo sitemap validation
I am trying to submit sitemap.xml (index) to Yahoo Site Explorer but with no luck.
I tried using website feed option in the site explorer to submit the sitemap, but I got validation errors. However, ...
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Is Smush it a reliabe service? [closed]
Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline.
In their FAQ there is a question about ...
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How to be on google first page results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I searched the web and find a lot of "techniques" to be on the first page results of google or ...
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How many days would update if I modify page meta:title and meta:description?
If I adjust the meta:title and meta:description in my page for SEO, how many days would google, yahoo, bing search engine update?
BTW: if my sitemap set this page's changefreq is daily? Thanks.
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Is it free to use Yahoo! smilies in our forum? (caused by copyright issues)
Will there be any problems (I'm talking about copyright...) if we use the lovely smilies of Yahoo! in any of our web apps? eg. forums and so on?
I couldn't find any site that says it is ...
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Site Indexed in Yahoo and Bing but not Google [duplicate]
I have a site www.holiday-tuscany.com that has been online for less than a month.
If you put the keyword Holiday Tuscany in Google the site doesn't appear in any of Google rankings. If I do the same ...
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Allow only 5 countries to access my page may lead to get lost or removed from search engines?
Because my resource are limited, I need to cut off strangers (inc. USA) for visiting my page. People from the middle of Europe are allowed (Germany, France, Hungary, Poland etc) are allowed. If they ...
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Help! Requesting a change of URL on Yahoo Directory!
I submitted a couple websites on yahoo directory a month ago. For some reason, the url they listed was not the url I asked for, they listed the Japanese version instead of the submitted English ...
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Only First Link Counts
If anyone hasn't seen yet the following blog:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule
It is describing that from at least two links (so two or more) that are located on ...
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What is the Google version of Yahoo's Data tables?
I find Yahoo! Data tables very useful. You can access them using YQL (Yahoo query language) to retrieve information such as stock markets, currency rates, etc. See ...
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Yahoo search: different results shown in two identical searches
searching on http://www.yahoo.it for villa matrimonio bologna I noticed Yahoo shows different results. You need to retry few times to get this done maybe exiting the browser and openeing it again, or ...
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Yahoo Bizmail import contacts list into email clients [closed]
My company abc.com has signed up with Yahoo Business Email.
Everyone in my company is assigned an email address user1@abc.com, user2@abc.com ...etc.
I have a few questions:
It is required that ...
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How would i rank my keywords in Yahoo search engine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I am working as search engine optimizer team lead in a company and facing problem in a project ...
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How to specifically search email Ids of Human Resource managers over internet? [closed]
Is it possible to search specific email Ids of company managers on Google or yahoo ?
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Text doesn't fit on ONE page - This same text is too large
Lets say I am describing the text in, for example, 2100 words for the same keyword. My purpose would be to have 700 words per page. Obviously I need to have 3 pages so I can devide the text with, in ...
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How do i get facebook icon on my desktop [closed]
how do I get the facebook icon on my desktop? I do not know how please help
