Yahoo Search Weather Report : Crawling & Ranking Algorithm Update Today

January 22nd, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

Today Yahoo is planning to roll out its first major Yahoo ‘Weather Report’ of 2008 which will include some changes to its crawling and ranking algorithms.

Yahoo says that the changes are currently being made, but webmasters may notice a shuffling of their rankings throughout the day as Yahoo will be doing some “ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.”

Are you noticing changes in your rankings at Yahoo? If so, this may be the cause.

Let’s hope for some more relevant results from Yahoo after this update and perhaps maybe even a widespread inclusion of Delicious information.

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Barry Schwartz on Jan 22, 2008 at 9:35 am

Just an FYI, the update actually started late last week. See http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016009.html
Loren Baker, Editor on Jan 22, 2008 at 9:37 am

Thanks Barry, let’s hope that when they make the announcement on the YSearchBlog, they give more information on what those tweaks to the crawling and ranking are.
Egyptian Mau Breeder on Jan 22, 2008 at 6:35 pm

No changes yet and glad. For some reason, my new website “egyptian mau breeders directory” has hit number one as soon as yahoo indexed it. I wouldn’t want anything to mess up that luck.
Ken Teegardin on Jan 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm

For me, the Yahoo algorithm change was huge. I lost 60% of my traffic on January 23rd. Many of my pages went from rank # 2 to #26. I an about to give up on caring about Yahoo and just focus on Google.