I just saw this for the first time the other day... I received traffic from a yahoo search to my main page. The thing is, one of the keywords they used (lets call it "blah") wasn't on my page at all. I went and did the search myself, and when I clicked on the "Cached" link next to my site, in the yahoo message at the top, there was something that said "Websites linking to this site contained the term 'blah'". Now, from what I've read, more links is better than relevant links, but if yahoo is ranking people based on the content of the sites linking to them, that tells me that relevant links is more important. Thoughts on this? P.S. I'm talking only about Yahoo, not Google or MSN.
Interesting.. can you provide a link to the page that says "Websites linking to this site contained the term 'blah'" ?
It was a couple of weeks ago that I saw this, but I just went through my logs and I can't see it now. As I was looking through my logs I saw one from Google which was similar, so it could be that's the one I was thinking of... which would then make this post a little off topic, oops... this isn't my site, but you can see an example of what I mean in google here... http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=clamwin+antivirus+reviews&meta=cr%3DcountryCA Click on the "Cached" link beside the fourth result. Notice how it says... These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: antivirus So, I guess we've changed the search engine we are talking about, but the same question still applies. I'm sure I also saw this on Yahoo, but I could be on crack.
Yes, because Yahoo/Google/MSN care more about what's writing in the <a href=""> also ... if you read about how Yahoo works first give you good websites that got your keyword in the title and so on , after that at end of the page it's trying to guess. Also if you are searching for word aka , and there is a page containg a full word like baka, it will return it! Ofcoruse that the backups results are only showed when no good results are avaible
This is the first time I have seen this. Interesting and great find! Although I never use the only canadian results.