The Yahoo directory meta tag is now here, with the Yahoo! Search blog confirming that a NOYDIR meta tag can now be used.
“So, as promised, we’re providing support for ‘NOYDIR’ which will recognize the following Meta tags on your pages:
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOYDIR”>
or
<META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOYDIR”>
For pages with this tag, we will not use Yahoo! Directory titles or abstracts for your URL in web search results.”
I’m pretty sure this isn’t new but after having problems in the past trying to update a Yahoo! Directory listing, I’ve found there is a changing your Yahoo! listing page. This should definitely be easier to use in the future than finding a contact email address or phone number! :)
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):
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:
Aaron Wall has just posted that Wordtracker have launched new free version of their keyword tool.
Mike Mindel from Wordtracker commented about this to confirm that “We’re offering 100 results free, adult filtered with drill down into the long tail.”
This is excellent timing as the Overture keyword tool has been regularly unavailable for the last couple of days, although Yahoo! have confirmed that this has not gone but “the responsiveness of this free tool is diminished due to the sheer volume of hits it receives each day, therefore browsers may time out and error pages may appear but it doesn’t mean that this tool has been removed.”
Here is the Wordtracker keyword tool, this looks to be an excellent way to quickly find the popularity of search terms, based upon Dogpile.com and Metacrawler.com figures, and I especially like the way you can easily drilldown to the long tail results, as Mike said.
I noticed a new badge link on Yahoo! Site Explorer while checking a site’s backlinks this morning. This allows you to “Add a live badge to your blog or website that queries Site Explorer for the number of links to your site or page on the web.”
Here is the Yahoo! Site Explorer badge code which is the same for each site as it’s based upon the domain (or URL for links to a page). Unfortunately I can’t use JavaScript in a Blogger post but here is a screenshot of what the badges look like:
Yahoo! yesterday confirmed recent rumours by announcing they have joined forces with MyBlogLog in a deal believed to be worth over $10 million.
I’ve been using MyBlogLog for around a month on this blog and have found this to be an excellent way to view the identity of the sites users. To see how MyBlogLog works here’s a link to my profile, showing information about the sites I author, my communities and contacts.
Google, Yahoo and MSN yesterday officially agreed to all support the sitemap 0.90 protocol, for more information please read the search engines united story at the official Google blog.
Yahoo today launched Yahoo Food containing “recipes, advice from regional celebrity chefs, video cooking guides and easy-to-use Web tools.”
We can now offer clients a Google AdWords promotional code worth £50 in free clicks providing you have a newly created account. The promo code can be applied to pay per click management clients through our Google AdWords qualified company client centre.
If you would like us to apply this to your account please submit for a Google AdWords Account Review today!
Yahoo Search Marketing Promo Code
Alternatively, you can also sign-up for £50 worth of free clicks with the following Yahoo! Search Marketing promo code: removed as now expired.
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