Strange Yahoo! SERPs Results


When searching to see which sites were listed for a Yahoo! search on SEOptimise I found that none of the results were relevant and they all had something to do with soroptimist instead!

Here’s a screenshot of the Yahoo! SERPs (click image for full size):
Strange Yahoo SERPs

The uk.yahoo.com results list the sites I would have expected to see with a suggestion of “Did you mean: soroptimist”. This makes far more sense to show the correct results alongside the suggestion rather than just forwarding to what they thought I meant.

I’ve submitted for a Yahoo! directory listing this week so hopefully this will help to return results related to SEOptimise when searching on Yahoo.com.

I also found another surprising result listed for the same search and an “SEOptimise blog” query on Yahoo! UK. Instead of listing the correct page title it displayed the blog owner/poster name instead, the correct title is listed however for the label page in 2nd place:
Yahoo! Strange results: SEOptimise Blog search

Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.

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  1. PPCblogger says:

    Have you seen the suggestion on Google for your blog?!

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=seoptimise+blog&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

  2. Kev says:

    Yep, and I didn’t mean deoptimise! :D

    It’s a bit annoying as a search for seoptimise on Google brings up 17,900 results while a search for deoptimise only has 812, so I’m not sure if the suggestion is really needed as it seems quite obvious it’s not a typo.

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