Jul
17
I just checked Yahoo, and with a site of mine that’s as clean and fresh as newly washed linens hung out in the sun and fresh air to dry, a site 100% non-commercial and totally for the benefit of users, newly listed in ODP, there are already scraped sites turning up at Yahoo - subsidized and funded by Google AdSense.
This is criminal. It is not only tainting the integrity of the quality of carefully screened ODP-listed sites, but in my opinion is misusing the data freely made available to them. Not to mention tainting the sites they’re listing.
Thank goodness for Yahoo Search showing those or we wouldn’t know it’s happening. My gripe is with Google for subsidizing useless swill with nothing more than scraped content and no value for users.
What’s really sad is that these sites get listed at Yahoo right off showing up as back-links, while the actual updated ODP categores are not yet showing up.
Jul
16
Keeping Visitors on Your Site
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It has just been posted at WebmasterWorld, and this is one of the finest, most helpful forum posts to hit the net in ages, particularly touching on user friendly site navigation, one of the things that so many people have problems with. Definite bookmark quality and a must - read by mack, the moderator of the newbies forum
Jul
12
The new revised edition of the Yahoo Search Marketing Advertisers Handbook is now available in downloadable form.
This was announced by YahooSarah at Search Engine Watch Forums earlier today.
Jul
10
This looks to me like a more important topic than meets the eye, not only for using a 301 redirect from one domain to another and for changes or moves with individual pages or sections on sites, but right now I personally believe that Google is doing some odd things with “sitewide” considerations that need more understanding than we’ve had.
Discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums:
Does age in URL transfer with a 301?