This might be old news so someone link me to the relevant thread if it is. Have a look at this search, uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A1f4cfabvexICFMBaoFLBQx.?p=bt+310+phones&y=Search&fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&rd=r1 Now, I don't know if I have noticed if I didn't have Aaron Wall's SEO Firefox plugin installed but I noticed some of the listings within the natural results aren't what I'd consider to be "natural". Notice the results with no mention of a file size or Cache link after the URL? When I checked the third result down, I hovered over the link and rather than see the domain name as shown in the listing, in the browser's status bar, I got this, uk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A1f4cfvAvexILc4AojVLBQx.; _ylu=X3oDMTEwdnVjdm00BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2ly ZAR2dGlkAwRpdAMx/SIG=1eoub43cc/EXP=1223561024/** http%3A//rdrird.yahoo.com/click%3Fu=http%3A//1.pttf.com /rdn%253Fe%253Dt0%2526i%253D7079I0-176763114%2526d %253D0-0%2526t%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fppc. postclicktracking.com%25252F40133983%25252F%25253Food c%25253D2406%252526source%25253Dpt%252526hash%252 53Dfsljua%26y=024A37045BBD602E%26i=453%26c=21580%26 q=02%255ESSHPM%255BL7%257Dk%253F,./%253Fowpqzl6%2 6e=utf-8%26r=2%26d=wownrm-en-gb%26n=MS74RRHTK7M4H T1N%26s=104%26t=%26m=48ECBDC1%26x=01D86F7B58EB4356 Anyone shed any light? It hasn't escaped my notice that there's a variety of tracking domains in there. rdird.yahoo.com - anyone heard of that? Are yahoo! sneaking paid links into their natural results? Should I get my tin foil hat out for this one?
I have noticed similar yahoo tracking links showing up in competitors list of backlinks. Perhaps they just use tracking urls for any page that is not cached. Then if people are actually going to that page, their robot may then cache that particular page.
I can see where you're coming from but Google must have indexed the page to some extent to be able to produce the descriptions unless the URLs were submitted with descriptions somehow. So why not just show what it found? and if it didn't cache them, why rank them that high in the first place? For those who can't see what I'm getting at, here's a pic, farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/2923927245_c740d80119_o.jpg Note that the the ranking numbers at the side ignore the listings in question. I should have also pointed out that bar misco.co.uk and eurooffice.co.uk, all the odd results are from shopping sites, nextag.co.uk shopping.msn.co.uk shop-com.co.uk dooyoo.co.uk shopzilla.co.uk search-desc.ebay.co.uk Have Yahoo! said anything recently about testing new results?