SEO Dance

Yahoo! Site Explorer is one of the SEO tools most preferred due to its record of backlinks. Now this Yahoo! service has been bejeweled with more coveted features:

Site Authentication using META tags: For those of you who cannot upload an authentication file to your site, such as a blog, you will now be able to authenticate your site in Site Explorer by including an authentication key as part of a META tag on the home page of your site. This is in addition to the existing mechanism of putting a file on your site home directory.

Detailed Authentication Errors: We now provide detailed errors on authentication failures, making it much easier to diagnose possible problems.

Delete URLs: For your authenticated sites, you can now delete any URLs from the index. Simply locate the URL in Site Explorer and click on the ‘Delete URL’ button. The URL and all its subpaths will be deleted shortly thereafter. This is meant to work in conjunction with the robots.txt file while providing greater responsiveness. Please continue to use the robots.txt protocol to ensure that our crawler does not crawl pages you want to keep out of our index.

Site Explorer Badge: Get a Site Explorer badge for your Website and retrieve the count of live links from the whole web. Go ahead, watch as your site becomes more popular, and show off your link wealth to your visitors.

This Yahoo! effort is one way of showing that they do care about the needs of their users. More power to Yahoo!

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After Google’s pagerank update, (is it even over yet?) here comes Yahoo! announcing its search index update.

Just checked this SEO blog’s and fortunately, it’s holding that coveted top spot as opposed to its previous second and third placement during the past few months.

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There was a MyBlogLog sold to Yahoo! rumor last November. Now it’s official - Yahoo! bought MyBlogLog at $10 million according to sources.

MyBlogLog is a social network offering a blog tool that allows one check blog stats and gives faces to blog visitors who signed up this service.

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Tagometer, a new widget from Del.icio.us , has been released to further boost the ego of bloggers with the most of bookmarked posts.

The Tagometer opens things up from there - using a JSON data feed from del.icio.us, the Tagometer includes an up-to-date count of others who’ve already bookmarked the page, as well as a fresh list of the top tags applied.

It has two kinds: the one-line badge and the tall badge. See samples of these Tagometer varieties and how to get one.

via Yahoo! Search Blog

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If you’ve been blogging or running a website that has had a traffic surge, most likely, you tackled topics like:

- celebrities and whatever they flash
- celebrity babies (Suri and Shiloh)
- death of famous people (Steve Irwin, Anna Nicole’s son and recently CNET’s James Kim)
- seasonal preparations (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas)

Yes, they are the most searched topics. Now, here if you’d like to know the top searched keywords on Yahoo! for 2006 and here’s Google’s monthly version of most popular keywords in every theme - Zeitgeist.

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These past few days are full of exploration for the two biggies of the search world - Google and Yahoo. Aside from joining forces for the use of Sitemaps, both are found to be tweaking on their search engine results.

Google is working on adding blog search results from Blogger Search maybe? Here’s a screenshot of the caught blog result add-on.

While Yahoo has been caught redhanded adding some Yahoo!Answers on its SERPs.

Finally, Google and Yahoo are realizing that real answers and fresh information should be given some attention. This will definitely boost the morale of bloggers and hopefully make the blogosphere gain more traction as the bloggers’ effort becomes more recognized by Google. Now, don’t start brewing abuse of these new features, please.

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I’m starting to fall in love with the keyphrase coveted trifecta not because it’s the major goal of many SEO webmasters but because it’s simply fun to say. If you have been patiently following this SEO blog, (a big thanks to you and some hugs, too.) I’ve already mentioned something about coveted trifecta in a post regarding off-page SEO beating on-page SEO.

However, I will not be discussing further about this SEO goal of reaching the top of the three major search engine’s SERPS.

But this still has something to do with the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo and MSN AND their synergy in supporting the use of sitemaps.

According to a press release from Google, Google, Yahoo and MSN will be joining forces in supporting Sitemaps 9.0.

“Sitemaps 9.0 is a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their websites and be indexed more comprehensively and efficiently, resulting in better representation in search indices.”

This is the first joint effort to improve the crawling process of the 3 major search engines. But, a webmaster should be reminded that using Sitemaps 9.0 protocol is not the best way to get into the top of the search results. It is only one
method of facilitating the way of informing the search engines when a site gets updated.

Crawl, er, read the full press release about the unity of the 3 major SEs in using sitemaps.

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