Back on the third of this month Yahoo! put out one of its “weather updates” – announcing indexing, crawling and algorithm changes that were pending. After the announcement, there were very few visible changes to the search results, but starting last week, the changes starting taking hold.

After doing my Monday morning scan of our rankings, I definitely noticed some changes. Specifically, some of the sites that have historically given Yahoo! some issues, Xanga being the best example, are ranking well again…something that took Yahoo! a while to fix after the last update.

Also, there seems to be more sites getting multiple pages ranked well, versus the past when most sites just had their homepage ranking well for key terms. This is a mixed blessing I’d say – since it gives site owners a better chance to have your inner pages indexed, but also seems to be filling up the top rankings with multiple pages from some highly influential websites.

Also, the number of inbound links, at least for our site, has decreased quite a bit. I’m not sure if this will just be temporary, which is usually the case, or if Yahoo! is being more aggressive when filtering out or reporting links.

Either way, if you’ve been doing SEO for your sites, and you haven’t checked your Yahoo! rankings lately, today may be a good day to do so.

Oh yeah, and if you want to see something kind of funny/sad, look in the post comments and see how much spam the post has gotten that hasn't been cleaned up. Kinda makes you wonder if Yahoo! is collecting those site URLs and blacklisting them or something.