Tag Archives: Yahoo SEO

Yahoo adds a little subdomains button

By richardbaxterseo | Published June 24, 2009

I’m not completely sure when this happened but it looks like Yahoo rolled out a small change to Site Explorer with the addition of a “Subdomains” button.

subdomains button yahoo

That “subdomains” button is pretty new – here’s what the the interface looked like according to this post on SEOptimise a while ago:

yahoo-site-explorer-subdomain

I don’t think it’s a big deal, though I’m not entirely convinced I know what the button is trying to do:

subdomains

It looks like it’s a stab at a domain diversity metric – perhaps 142 total inlinks from 24 subdomains to my root domain. According to Linkscape it’s closer to 221 inlinks from 59 FQD’s. Any ideas? I admit, it’s been a long time since I last looked at Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Yahoo SEO – Thinking about class="robots-nocontent"

By richardbaxterseo | Published February 7, 2009

The “robots-nocontent” class attribute is a non robots.org standard supported by Yahoo only and launched in May 2007. The sole purpose of this attribute is to allow the webmaster to highlight areas of content that are considered irrelevant to the main subject of the page to Yahoo’s crawler, Slurp.

There hasn’t been much noise (if any) about the use of robots=”nocontent” since it’s launch, but I thought I’d take a look at this “class” attribute as part of my SEO research and do some tests on my site to see if it made any actual difference.

Why would a search engine ask webmasters to use a class attribute in their on-page SEO?  Read the full post...