seorefugee.com — Accoriding to a thread in our SEO Forum and a post at SEO-Scoop, Yahoo is including pay-per click ads in it?s organic listings. To the casual observer, the ads are indistinguishable from regular listings leading some to question whether Yahoo! is selling rankings in their search engine result pages (SERPs) as well.
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jimbocookFeb 21, 2007
According to Yahoo?s Search Submit Pro page:?Your Web site listings are displayed based on the relevancy of your site content to search terms."But in the cases we?ve seen, it?s clearly not the site content that is determining where the listings are displayed. Rather it appears to be the title selected for the page listing (not the actual title or page content) that governs the link?s placement in search results.Also from the same page:?Search Submit Pro is typically for customers with search marketing budgets of $5,000 per month or more, or advertisers who submit more than 1,000 Web pages to the program.?Clearly it sounds like Yahoo! is selling search results to big spenders.
robdavyFeb 21, 2007
"Yahoo! Search 21.1%"Quite a few people it seems...(Source: OneStat—May 2005 - kinda old I know, but you get the idea)
kufurexFeb 21, 2007
This has been going on for a while. The service is actually an express inclusion. Yahoo! reviews and includes your site in their index within 48 hours, and then IF the site happens to rank and get clicked on the client would pay a CPC charge. Retarded? Yes! I've been saying this for a year now. lol
cynoclastFeb 21, 2007
SEO is a euphemism for link spam. Nothing more. If you're a a links spammer, you are scum. Even if you refer to yourself as a "Search Engine Optimizer" you're still link spamming scum. Kill yourself. (Thanks, Hicks)
timdorrFeb 21, 2007
I stopped when they sourced rds.yahoo.com as "evidence". That's their redirection system. It lets them keep track of what people are clicking on in the search results. Google does the exact same thing. If anything, this is just someone gaming their results. Not really news, since it happens *all* the time...
lqqkout4elfyFeb 21, 2007
Yahoo does have a paid inclusion product that I believe affect their organic results somewhat (one factor out of many).
alterattiFeb 21, 2007
since when did Yahoo *have* any, to start selling in the first place..repeat after me:"Google is God, Google is God"
bradleylsFeb 21, 2007
You pay to get into their index - not for your placement. And this isn't new. The yahoo SSP program has been around for at least a year.
jimbocookFeb 21, 2007
"This is paid inclusion, they are not selling search results.""You pay to get into their index - not for your placement."Everyone who knows this to be true because - by-golly - Yahoo said so, click your ruby-red slippers together three times and say, "There's no place like Yahoo!"
flemingoOct 3, 2008
If anything, this is just someone gaming their results. Not really news, since it happens *all* the time...<a class="user" href="http://www.xlntseo.com">http://www.xlntseo.com</a>