June 7th, 2007 by James Omdahl
As if our indexing problems with Google weren’t enough to worry about, from the looks of things, Yahoo! has decided to mix things up with a fairly substantial algorithm change.
From what I have been reading, early in the update there were a couple versions of the algorithm showing, with one being overrun by spam sites and one showing decent, yet decidedly different results from the last algorithm. Now it seems like the higher quality results are showing and things are starting to get consistent across datacenters.
I’ve got to admit, I liked the old algorithm better - mainly because we ranked a lot better with it. Interestingly, in the insurance vertical I am seeing a lot of sites that are appearing high in the rankings that have come out of nowhere.
I’ll be sitting tight and seeing how everything settles on this one. Hopefully good old www.InsureMe.com will work its way back up…but if not, well, guess we just have to wait for the next update (trying to keep the “glass half full” on this one).
