Alternative Tools After Yahoo Site Explorer Shut Down
One of the most popular SEO tools when it comes to discovering competitors backlink data will cease to exist later today. Since its launch in 2005, Yahoo Site Explorer – one of the first tools to report on backlinks, became very popular within the SEO community. Part of its success was the fact that its data came from a major search engine, with the added benefit of being free and quite reliable.... November 21st, 2011 by admin
The End of an Era: Yahoo Site Explorer Closes Today
We knew it was coming, but today will be an historical day. Today Yahoo officially closes Yahoo Site Explorer. Most of the Site Explorer functionalities will be returning in Bing Webmaster Tools. However, one of the main reasons people used Site Explorer is the link-data: who links to what site. That specific element will not [...]Related posts:Yahoo ends Site Explorer: Yahoo says Move to Bing Webmaster... November 21st, 2011 by admin
Search Engine Market Share
I last posted about search engine share in the UK back in February 2011, so it is time to revisit the market share of the search engines. Market share is important, because from an SEO point of view, it informs you on how much time and effort you should spend on each search engine to optimise for each engine. Likewise, you can get an indication from the average percentages whether a site you are working... October 20th, 2011 by admin
The State of The Search Engines: Google vs Bing vs Yahoo
There were days in which we could actually talk about a “War on Search Engines”. Google was fighting the likes of Yahoo, Altavista, MSN and even Ask for the trust of the users. We can now easily say Google has won that war. They are the biggest one out there. At least, they are for [...]Related posts:Google or Bing: The Royal Wedding – UPDATE Bing now also fastest growing in the... October 20th, 2011 by admin
Is Microsoft Going For A Second Attempt to Buy Yahoo?
When Carol Bartz was fired in a way the “Bold and the Beautiful” writers could have thought of immediately rumors started about Yahoo possibly being up for sale. So far there is no official news around that, but now there are rumors that Yahoo’s partner in crime when it comes to search, Microsoft, might be [...]Related posts:Not pretty: Carol Bartz Fired as CEO of Yahoo on the... October 6th, 2011 by admin
Not pretty: Carol Bartz Fired as CEO of Yahoo on the Phone, responds via email
If she was successful or not is open for discussion. Fact is that the board of directors from Yahoo thought it was enough: they sacked Carol Bartz. CFO Tim Morse is temporarily taking over. Apparently Bartz has been sacked by Chairman of the Yahoo! Board Roy Bostock, together with none other than Jerry Yang himself. [...]Related posts:Why Bartz Won’t Sell Yahoo! (Just Yet) Yahoo! introduces... September 7th, 2011 by admin
Who is Giving Facebook the Most Referrals? Google!
Google and Facebook have become huge competitors in the past few years. Where they started of as two completely different services on the web they now are connected like no other. The biggest battle is not between Google and Bing, but between Google and Facebook. But a study performed by Pagelever shows something interesting: the [...]Related posts:Bing vs Google: an eyetracking study: more staring... August 23rd, 2011 by admin
State of Search radioshow – episode 65: The Bing – Yahoo transition with Cedric Chambaz
Bas and Roy were joined by Microsoft’s EMEA Marketing lead Cedric Chambaz. Cedric discussed the Bing - Yahoo transition in which the ‘backend’ of Bing and Yahoo is merged, making that you will find the same results on both websites. Cedric explained what they had done and also explained the difference between the transition and [...]Related posts:State of Search radioshow – episode... August 18th, 2011 by admin
Searches on Bing More Successful than on Google
There has been a lot of discussion about Bing lately. According to some experts Microsoft’s search engine was driving on a dead end street. They were going nowhere and Microsoft should consider selling Bing. But things might not be that bad after all. Research from Experian Hitwise shows that Bing is not only growing, it [...]Related posts:Bing gaining share in the US: success rate much higher... August 16th, 2011 by admin
Yahoo Organic Search Results Now Powered by Bing
It has slipped by relatively unnoticed, but on Wednesday (August 3 2011), Yahoo’s organic search results in the UK changed to be powered by Bing. This brings the total number of countries where Yahoo is Bing-powered to 17; this is another stage of the deal struck by Microsoft and Yahoo back in 2009. It is important to note that it is just the organic results at this stage – Yahoo’s paid results... August 5th, 2011 by admin
Yahoo is officially transitioning its organic results to Bing from today!
Over two years ago Microsoft and Yahoo! signed a deal to become partners instead of competitors in their shared domain of search. They formed the new Search Alliance. One part of the deal was that Microsoft’s Bing would become the search engine behind Yahoo!. The transition started in August 2010 in USA and Canada, but [...]Related posts:Bing takes first steps on the continent: launches in France:... August 3rd, 2011 by admin
Yahoo! UK Changing to Bing Results Starting Today
Yahoo! sent out an update to its advertisers letting them know that the Yahoo UK web results will start top switch over starting today, 3rd August 2011. They have 3 recommendations to make sure . (1) Compare your results between the 2 engines, (2) adjust your paid ads accordingly, and (3) check out Bing Webmaster Tools. Apparently Bing Webmaster Tools helps you “optimise your website for the Bing... August 3rd, 2011 by admin
Yahoo Earnings Released
Apple wasn’t the only big tech company to release its earnings report today. Yahoo released its report, though technically the company considers itself a media company. Either way, Yahoo revenue, excluding acquisition costs was $1,076 million for the second quarter, down … July 19th, 2011 by Chris Crum
Search Engine Market Share
A quick update on the UK popularity of each of the major search engines for the last 12 months. No prizes for guessing the leader; Google is still hugely dominant with over 90% of market share. Bing & Yahoo make a notable contribution with just over roughly 3% each, leaving the other two major search engines, AOL & Ask, trailing with less than 1% each. These of course all still way ahead of... July 13th, 2011 by admin
Yahoo ends Site Explorer: Yahoo says Move to Bing Webmaster Center
When Yahoo and Bing first announced they would partner up many in the industry expected this was bad news for Yahoo Site Explorer. That would inevitably be shut down. It took a while but Yahoo now indeed has announced it will be closing Yahoo Site Explorer. The closing down of Site Explorer means that Yahoo [...] July 11th, 2011 by admin
