I am still having issues with Yahoo Site Explorer providing me with link data for all of my pages. I do notice some distinct changes in the the links that Yahoo is showing for my root domain though. I decided to dig a little deeper and noticed some interesting things (to me at least). All in all Yahoo is reporting almost 50% more links to my home page.
The biggest difference I have seen is that it appears that Yahoo has picked up their crawling and indexing of social networking sites and videos. Many of the links in my profiles at different networking sites are now being reported in Yahoo. Links from comments and discussions on other social media sites seem to have been picked up more readily as well. On top of that this is the first time I have seen the videos I added to YouTube months ago being reported. The addition of the social networking and YouTube links in my links data seems to make up the majority of the increase that Yahoo is reporting.
Another thing I noticed is that Yahoo is still having a problem with a 301 redirect that was done at least two months ago. Google, MSN, and Ask all seem to have updated and everything is working fine. But not Yahoo. They still show pages from both sites in their index. The funny thing is that it does not appear to be hurting the site as pages from both versions seem to do well. Of course, Yahoo sends such a minscule amount of traffic to me I could not really tell if this was in fact hurting or not.
While Yahoo seems to be improving their ability to find and index pages and link (or at least report them) they still seem to be having problems with 301 redirects. I remember reading about 301 redirects and the fact that Yahoo does not recognize them years ago but it is insane that they still don’t have the ability process a proper 301 redirect. I am glad that they seem the crawling more and more pages more frequently but I really hope they can catch up with the other engines when it comes proper redirect and server response issues.
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