ijwinkleri
06-21-2006, 09:34 AM
Okay, I've tried a couple other forums and noone seems to have a handle on this, so here goes.
I'm relatively new to SEO, but I don't consider myself to be unintelligent. I've read in a few articles and other forums of a Yahoo Index update in the works. Anyone seen any evidence that it's out in full force yet?
My reason for asking is that six of the company's websites had a decent showing in Yahoo, until this week. This week in report after report, I've watched the number of top 100 Yahoo ranked spots drop by as much as 85% of spots from the week before. An entire weeks worth of ranking reporting and the subsequent traffic reporting and other metrics that we use inhouse looks like Yahoo all but dropped our entire corporation.
Just to make it clear, these six e-commerce sites were not clones of each other or duplicating content, etc. They used 4 different programming technologies, covered three completely different product lines, and none of the SEO efforts for them were identically developed or enacted. As a company we're still learning about SEO and analizing what we see...but our sites are fairly old and we've had decent success in getting ranked and adding traffic...and this week's issues are just baffling.
One quirky thing, three of these six sites were overwhelmingly added to the Google index in these same reports. Anything to that?
I'm relatively new to SEO, but I don't consider myself to be unintelligent. I've read in a few articles and other forums of a Yahoo Index update in the works. Anyone seen any evidence that it's out in full force yet?
My reason for asking is that six of the company's websites had a decent showing in Yahoo, until this week. This week in report after report, I've watched the number of top 100 Yahoo ranked spots drop by as much as 85% of spots from the week before. An entire weeks worth of ranking reporting and the subsequent traffic reporting and other metrics that we use inhouse looks like Yahoo all but dropped our entire corporation.
Just to make it clear, these six e-commerce sites were not clones of each other or duplicating content, etc. They used 4 different programming technologies, covered three completely different product lines, and none of the SEO efforts for them were identically developed or enacted. As a company we're still learning about SEO and analizing what we see...but our sites are fairly old and we've had decent success in getting ranked and adding traffic...and this week's issues are just baffling.
One quirky thing, three of these six sites were overwhelmingly added to the Google index in these same reports. Anything to that?