What is going on with Yahoo SERP?

abstroose

Jul 27th 2007, 11:43 pm

Yahoo was the only search engine I was actually ranking okay in. After analyzing my competitors I noticed that backlinks seems to be a big factor of ranking high, so over the past couple of weeks I've been monitoring my backlinks and rank for my target keyword:

Date - Backlinks - Position

05/07/2007 - 464 - 56
12/07/2007 - 466 - 57
19/07/2007 - 518 - 60
26/07/2007 - 532 - 151

I was a little curious that my position was increasing with my backlinks, but somehow I've suddenly jumped 90 ranks back?!

I've been doing a lot of work, and updating my site regularly. Have I been penalized? Or is Yahoo messing around with the way sites are ranked?

Teh-Uploader

Jul 28th 2007, 1:59 am

Yahoo was the only search engine I was actually ranking okay in. After analyzing my competitors I noticed that backlinks seems to be a big factor of ranking high, so over the past couple of weeks I've been monitoring my backlinks and rank for my target keyword:

Date - Backlinks - Position

05/07/2007 - 464 - 56
12/07/2007 - 466 - 57
19/07/2007 - 518 - 60
26/07/2007 - 532 - 151

I was a little curious that my position was increasing with my backlinks, but somehow I've suddenly jumped 90 ranks back?!

I've been doing a lot of work, and updating my site regularly. Have I been penalized? Or is Yahoo messing around with the way sites are ranked?
How do you check this?

might be becasue when you get backlinks your site get's biger and pr?

abstroose

Jul 29th 2007, 5:22 am

I check the backlinks using Yahoo Site Explorer, and I check the rank using multiple websites I found on Google.

longcall911

Jul 30th 2007, 4:38 am

I've been doing a lot of work, and updating my site regularly. Have I been penalized? Or is Yahoo messing around with the way sites are ranked?
The same happened to me a couple of months ago. I have been building backlinks regularly and made one change to my title. Suddenly, I went from #3 to #33.

The change to my title was definitely an SEO type change, so I'm guessing that there's an over-optimization filter of some sort at work here.

The same happened on live.com, at the same time.

/*tom*/

abstroose

Jul 31st 2007, 11:42 am

Just a little update...

Backlinks: 569
Rank: 189

This is getting stupid, within the last month I have gained over 100 more backlinks yet jumped 133 positions backwards?!

qazu

Jul 31st 2007, 12:16 pm

Just a little update...

Backlinks: 569
Rank: 189

This is getting stupid, within the last month I have gained over 100 more backlinks yet jumped 133 positions backwards?!That's not so bad, at least you're still ranked! I've gone from 15, 31, 42, 42, 43 and 101 to nowhere in a week. :( I've only kept one ranking that went down from 78 to 84! It's a good thing Yahoo doesn't send much traffic my way. :D