Tool To Check Your Yahoo! WebRank

[digitalpoint]

Here's a new one for everyone that lets you check your Yahoo WebRank...

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/webrank/

- Shawn

[viggen]

wow, that one was quick! :)

so how do you know? (the rank)

and why cant i see the rank on my yahoo toolbar, it says with every page (not ranked by yahoo, even yahoo.com)

cheers
viggen
p.s postet your tool in the german abakus forum, so if some question arise i forward them to here, if it is ok.

[digitalpoint]

It wasn't terribly hard to make... was about 5 minutes for the function to get the WebRank, and 5 minutes to put a web page around it. :)

I see Yahoo WebRank for pages... make sure you have the new beta toolbar installed (I think they just put it out this morning):

http://edit.companion.yahoo.com/?.cpdl=b543

And I'll be happy to answer any questions for the Abakus users... :)

- Shawn

[viggen]

hi digital, thanks for the quick reply,

well i have the version 5.4.9.0 (think it is the latest)

none of the pages are ranked. (location thing? austria is my location)

[digitalpoint]

Interesting, it must be a location thing... They must be geotargeting by your IP address or something. Maybe the WebRank is specific to the country you are in (like a site could have a different WebRank for German users, but something else for US users).

Do you know anyone else outside of the US that is seeing the same thing you do?

Probably a dumb question, but when you installed it, did you install it with WebRank enabled?

- Shawn

[viggen]

Yes i did enable the webrank, and i know one other who doesnt see ranking, he is from germany, (not very scientific yet, but who knows, maybe you need to be in the US to see it?)

[digitalpoint]

Much too much time on my hands... I made a script that generates the WebRank output to a graphic file that looks like the one on the Yahoo toolbar. Except mine is 64x64 instead of 16x16.

- Shawn

[GuyFromChicago]

Cool...thanks for another helpful tool.

[Such Great Heights]

Here's a new one for everyone that lets you check your Yahoo WebRank...

Shawn, you rule.
You should make your own light weight toolbar with your tools on it.

It can give the Google PR, Yahoo! Webrank, a "check all" button to log you in and check all your keywords for the day with the rank tracker, etc. etc.

And people might say "I don't need another toolbar for my browser..." but if it was a light version with little overhead ... I'd use it.

So yeah I'm sure you can expand off this ...

Good job.

[jason@strangelogic.com]

Firstly let me say thankyou.

A wonderful service to your community here. I found your site purely because of your new tool and after browsing around I am glad I have :)

I have tested a few sites with the tool and a few of them multiple times. It seems the Webrank feature truly is in its beta stages as the same page returned 5 different scores within minutes of each other.

Out of curiosity would you mind sharing the call to the Yahoo server that gets the information on Web Rank ?

Thanks

Jason

[digitalpoint]

The jumping around is curious... I've seen it too, but for whatever reason some sites (such as digitalpoint.com) seem to stay constant. It's something I've been looking into to make sure it's not something on my end (although I don't see how it could be since it gets the data from Yahoo).

As far as putting out the code, maybe someday, but not quite yet...

- Shawn

[irish_ladie]

Looks like the beta tool is full ---
Thank you for inquiring about the 5.4 external Beta test. The Beta testing group is now full

I downloaded it yesterday and could not enable it............however the tool makes up for it - thanks Shawn

[turulillo]

Hi everibody,

Have you noticed a little problem with the tool (or Yahoo's WebRank) ?
When I try this site,I always get different results (and sometimes with other sites but not today) :
-www.les-logos-sonneries.net

[digitalpoint]

Yeah... it was mentioned in this thread previously... it's being worked on.

- Shawn

[hans]

hi nice webrank tool

while google PR ( online tools ) provide steady output

our online yahoo webrank tool ...

testing my webrank from outside US (being permanent guest in the PH .. )
i get results from exactly 1 - 10 within minutes for one and the same site ..
usually the first query is the highest
then it jumps down and around

[hans]

Irish ladie

yep it says that on yahoo page
BUT
it also gives you a link ( even twice companion.yahoo.com ) to download the companion from yahoo
i guess the "companion"

may be the webrank tool

just a guess - because i can NOT download as i have the wrong browser/OS it :) the one free of viruses

[Honor Hart]

Dumb questions, I know

I take it the higher the rank the better? Just checking since one of my sites ranks 9 and this suprised me.

Also, how old is the ranking system for Yahoo? I haven't paid much attention till lately...now that they are no longer using Google results.

Also, is the ranking based upon their new spider in use now?

Thanks all...just found this great site and great tools.

Honor

[digitalpoint]

Check this thread...

- Shawn

[Honor Hart]

Thanks Shawn

[misohoni]

How does this tool work? Do I have to wait 5 mins or something. Each time I search, my ranking is different 2 or 10 or 0 etc.,

[Julie Hooke]

I have been trying for some years now to get the powers that be where I work to realise that they need to up their game to get a more useful and more interesting website. They seem to think that poor English, pathetic jpgs and the 2002 Annual Report in dot point form for the various departments is scintillating stuff!

So, I have been most interested in the Google PageRank as an indicator of how we are doing, and now the Yahoo! Webrank. This Webrank tool is fascinating but like Jason I seem to get a different result each time I request a rank for the same page. Initially I got an 8 for one page that got a 0 on Google, so I re-entered it and got a 2, then a 6, then a 4. So how do I know which one is correct? I would just love to be able to add this info to the survey of our web pages that I am doing at the moment. There's nothing like stats to make these people take an interest. Of course they think that 149 hits per quarter on a department's home page is wonderful....... little do they know that most of these were probably acquired by the department staff checking and copying off sections for revision. ;-) Any suggestions?

Julie

[digitalpoint]

Well right now, Yahoo seems to be feeding random results for some sites. But others (like www.digitalpoint.com) stay constant. Not exactly sure why at this point though.

Personally, I wouldn't put too much weight on WebRank at all...

- Shawn

[misohoni]

Does it really work?

[schlottke]

Is this thing work, its been coming up blank lately.

[Glitterz]

Hello everyone. I came here in search of a tool to find out my Yahoo Webrank. I had found the Digital Point one before here, but I was looking for a tool bar.

What my question is:

My site http://www.glitterzlingerie.com shows up as a zero on the Yahoo Webrank Checker. But I show up on the top 10 (I vary up and down between 1 & 10) on search results for many many of my chosen keywords. If that is so, then why is my webrank so low?

Does anyone know why and what difference it makes then to have a high rank?

Thanks,

April
Glitterz Lingerie

[dinux]

Hopefully DigitalPoint will reply to this. I am trying to put a Yahoo! Web Rank tool on my web application that I have developed for my current position at iCrossing, Inc. However, the application will be internal when completed so I can't just put a link on the page to the one here at DigitalPoint.Com. If you could help me write one in PHP I would greatly appreciate it. Or, if you know where I could find a script as an example. Thanks

[T0PS3O]

As far as I know WebRank is as dead as can be.

IMO you guys should have more important stuff to worry about!

[dinux]

Ahh, if WebRank is dead then yes, I will worry about other stuff. Thanks

[T0PS3O]

See:

Results 1 - 10 of about 32,100 for yahoo webrank. (0.60 seconds) (This thread #1)

VS:

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,540,000 for google pagerank. (0.24 seconds)

Obviously dead/of no interest IMO.

[digitalpoint]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Yahoo abandoned it.

[ZuraX]

Works wonders for www.domainname.com but doesnt work for www.domainname.com/dir/

[Glitterz]

Yes, there may be a point about Yahoo abandonment, because as far as I can see, there is no indication of a rank on their Yahoo Companion thingy. (unless I have totally missed it.)

I have too worried about the rank thing for a while. And I have ranked 2 to 3 on Google, then I dropped to zero for some reason for the last month then now, surprisingly I went back up to a 2. And it worried the crap out of me this whole time.

Oh yea. Just to a warning to all that are concerned about search engine ranking. BEWARE OF CERTAIN SCRIPTS!!! I added this neat little script I found on a free script source. It was a cool layer script that looked like a window, but was actualy a layer that people could click and drag and close if wanted. I thought it was so neat. I was using it to display my new products and announcements. I was ranking #1 on Yahoo and other engines on my keywords, then suddenly I was no where to be found on the engines and my rank went NEGATIVE (in so many words). come to find out, it was that script, it was considered to be "hidden" text. Since it covered up some of my text on my site, it almost banned me from search engines.
When I discovered what was happening, I removed it and made sure I removed any back up copies from my server. It took about 2 months to reappear, but I finally did and all is well.
But my suggestion is, nt to have any ackward (non-standard java) on your site. Matter of fact, I have a harmless jave scrip on my front page for a music site and I think I am going to remove it and see if I get better results from Google when I do.

April

www.glitterzlingerie.com