Entries Tagged as 'Yahoo'

Google Announces Backlink Tool for Webmasters

February 9, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Google has released a new feature in their Webmasters Central that allows you to see the backlinks to your site. Although this is a huge advancement to their console, Matt Cutts is quick to put things into perspective:

Do not assume just because you see a backlink that it’s carrying weight. I’m going to say that again: Do not assume just because you see a backlink that it’s carrying weight. Sometime in the next year, someone will say “But I saw an insert-link-fad-here backlink show up in Google’s backlink tool, so it must count. Right?” And then I’ll point them back here, where I say do not assume just because you see a backlink that it’s carrying weight.

This is a very nice feature that Google has added compared to their link: operator, which only gives you a sample of your backlinks. But why is Google still preventing us from seeing all of our backlinks? Yahoo’s Site Explorer still shows a much larger percentage of backlinks, but are they as legitimate?

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Yahoo Updates Its Index

January 23, 2007 // Drew Stauffer

Last Friday on the Yahoo Search blog, Priyank Garg announced that they are updating their index.

“We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may be seeing some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update began last night and should be complete very soon.”

Have your sites been affected?

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