Yahoo has made some changes to its index and crawler behavior with some updates to their ranking algorithm and crawler frequency.
Priyank Garg posts on the Yahoo Search Blog :
We’re reducing our crawling machines by a significant amount with this update, so you might have observed a significant reduction in crawl load from us along with fewer machine IP addresses hitting you over the last few days.
The new crawler continues to improve comprehensiveness and freshness of coverage while also enhancing crawl efficiency, which reduces spurious load on websites.
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tyler dewitt on Aug 22, 2007 at 4:41 pm
They made some changes alright cause now I am the 2nd page for keyword website design. Which should be quite higher, it is in Google anyways.
Bin on Aug 23, 2007 at 2:42 am
YAHOO reducing 212 pages of my blog,but yahoo’s indexed speed is very slow,frequently after two monthe still cann’t indexed 50 pages if it is a new site.But google is crawled efficiency,very fast to index.
Mukesh on Aug 24, 2007 at 5:42 am
Their crawlers already used to crawl less of new sites. Now they hav completely stopped. Yahoo is certainly not a webmaster friendly search engine. While google picks up a site in a week, yahoo takes around 3 to 6 months. Reminds you of primitive ages..
Loren what happened to the comments, they seem to be nofollowed!! Come on, Searchenginejournal is a people’s blog, please don’t make it a blog for machines.
gill on Aug 27, 2007 at 2:45 am
Is there a layman explaination of this enhancement?
gill on Aug 27, 2007 at 2:46 am
Is there a layman explaination of this enhancement? What impact should we see?
Mukesh on Aug 27, 2007 at 3:38 am
With yahoo, the impact really does not matter. The lousy engine hardly gives you any traffic. You got to be atleast 2 years old with loads of links to get picked actively and ranking in serps. Sucks!
MSN hacken on Feb 11, 2008 at 6:46 am
I hope it will be better solution for me. Because of the fact my websites are loadness of it.
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