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[ultimateandrew]

Hi there. I don't know if it's too soon to tell, but has Yahoo recently changed the way it handles search results? (And I'm talking about its post-Google engine).

Originally when Yahoo went live with its own search, my site's pages were showing up in the #1-#3 slots for dozens of different keywords. It was glorious. We didn't change a single thing on our site, and now all of a sudden we're basically off the map. I can barely find us in Yahoo at all with the same keyword searches, and if so, I actually have to put keyword phrases in quotes for us to show up (and even then, we're lucky if we get ranked as high as #85 or so).

Has this drastic drop happened to anyone else recently?

Also, any tips/tricks of late to help placement in Yahoo Search?

Thanks so much!

-Andrew

[davidbrett]

Hi Andrew

This seems normal enough for the new Yahoo Search Engine. All you can do us wait and see what happens.

One things i have noticed is that yahoo seems to be putting weight back on meta descriptions. Maybe this is something you can look at while you're waiting.

[awall19]

make sure your site is registered with directories too.

[ultimateandrew]

Thanks, guys. As I've hardly seen mention of it anywhere, I figure it's way too soon to tell. I just wasn't sure if this problem was happenign to anyone else is all. I'll make sure to double check meta tags and directory though. Thanks!

[Dyan]

I don't know if my actual rankings dropped, but the overall traffic from Yahoo has stayed steady. I get about 35% of my traffic from them, and it's at 33% at the moment. So that's within normal fluxuation range. The only thing that I see interesting is that I'm getting an increase in Google traffic. A small and slow increase to be sure, but it's there nonetheless.