Yahoo Search Spam of the Week

Alright, I couldn't help but post this site I found in Yahoo just a few minutes ago. The spam is SO BAD, its mind boggling that it actually shows up in the index. It doesn't rank for anything important, but it hasn't tripped to many filters. You will see what I mean. I will not do a direct link to the site so you will have to cut and paste. But this is a good example of WHAT not to do.

http://searchengineoptimazation.com/great/lawyer/

Lovely! That looks like one of those doorway pages created by one of the automated programs that just grabs text and throws it together into a page designed to fool the search engines into believing it is real human-readable text - which of course it isn't. Great example of seo gone bad - thanks Phoenix.

Hey Phoenix, do you know how to measure yahoo rankings for a given word? Like digitalpoint.com for google.

Andy

Hey Andy,

Very good question. Well I think the best bet is going to be overture data at the moment in terms of amount of searches per particular keyword in Yahoo. The data is still a month or two behind however, and its not always exactly accurate. Plus Overture data encompasses more than just Yahoo. Some better data is when using Overture PPC Precision Match. This way you can get keyword popularity and the cost per click on the keywords everyone is after. "There is some gold in them hills" as the saying goes for finding good keyphrases that can convert but also be relatively uncompetitive.
Wordtracker also gives good data, and you can also try the Google Sandbox.
https://adwords.google.com/select/m...=KeywordSandbox

Here is also an article I did on the subject that relates more to international keyword research, but at the end there is a link to a directory of keyword suggestions sites, but most don't give popularity data. Just thought I would point it out.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/000964.html

At the moment I am seeing about 25% of traffic as reported in the Overture for Yahoo for a #1 position. So that means if Overture suggestion tool says 1000 searches a day, you might be getting 250 of that. Also depends on other factors.

Hope that helps.

Andy, its quite late here, sorry I think I misunderstood your question and posted instead. ;-) hehe. I think you meant on how to get reports for Yahoo rankings.

Well personally I use Web Position Gold for my reports. It works pretty good, but its a bit expensive for the software, and frankly the reports IMHO are the only thing most people use it for.

You might try:

http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/

Its free, and you can run it every couple weeks and get a log in Excel.

I mean a free tool like digitaloint.com. You are a pro. I am an amateur and will not pay for it.

With the level of detail and ongoing reporting as in Digitalpoints tool. I don't know of a tool that does so, besides paid ones. Reason being: Most of the tools out there that report for Yahoo screen scrape the results, and pick out your site for a quick rank check. Doing this is fine for quick checks, but not so good for consistent ongoing checks daily or weekly. It taxes the search engine and most likely they have a policy against it in such huge amounts. The other reason is that Yahoo doesn't allow its API to be used by the public, unless you want to pay mega mega bucks to get it (I onced checked with Inktomi about this), and if you do get it, its not worth it to give it out free, like Google does for reporting like that. I am not even sure if Yahootomi does this anymore either, as I have not asked.