In a patent filed by Yahoo a few years back, (and excellently uncovered and covered by Bill Slawski) signals for success include site engagement metrics and a recognition of user interaction as a key metric to measuring satisfaction.
That pales in comparison with Yahoo Answers' 69 million and Answers.com's 49 million users. Users can post questions in these threads, reply to questions, write reviews, rate answers and share this content in and outside Quora.
Yahoo Directory, ODP). Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. It's a matter of "getting" your audience, and crafting meaningful copy that...
EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but still lose search share to Google and Microsoft. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach...
At the welcome desk stood Liz Walton who said that their software assists customers structure their business profiles on websites like Yahoo, White Pages, and Patch. The self-described “decision search engine”, Bing helps people with answers...
How about Bing or Yahoo? Q: Glenn, did you know that the number one keyword searched for on Yahoo is Google? Nobody raised their hand for Bing or Yahoo last time. And not one did for Yahoo. For example, here are a few of the questions I asked the...
That’s obviously good news for Google (and for Yahoo! New formats, different ad styles and, as mentioned, competition from Yahoo! And the answers, for the most part, are very encouraging. Questions rattled around: Why should I pay for what used to...
During his three and a half years at Yahoo, Seth's responsibilities included overseeing such products as Yahoo Search, Local, Shopping, Mail, Flickr, Answers and many more. Another executive is out at Yahoo.
I also really like to advise small businesses to keep track of question-and-answer sites like Answers.com, Yahoo Answers, or Question.com. You can just as easily fail as excel in social media. Setting yourself up for success will make all the...
On June 26, 2000 Yahoo Selected Google to provide its organic search results (replacing Inktomi) with its impressive index of more than 25 million pages; again, huge for the time. Where once business owners and marketers had to consider whether it...
Searches with a mapping/navigation intent on the Big 5 Engines (Google/Bing/Yahoo/Ask/AOL) are down 34 percent over the past 15 months, going from 74.8 million to 49.5 million in August. Apple’s recent foray into the maps market, in which they...
DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! In the next few years, I hope we can build upon some of those focuses that we feel have contributed to that...
DataPop was founded late in 2008, by former Yahoo/Overture staffers. As its loyal subjects, writers and marketers must get on board with the technologies that will allow us to feed searchers’ insatiable need for the right answers, in the right...
Search Yahoo Answers for unanswered questions relevant to your industry and create an image answering the question. Fresh content not only helps with your search engine optimization strategy; it shows your social following you are active and...
Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers may be big, and are still the dominant players in the reference space, but there is an opportunity for niche sites like Quora, which focus on premium Q&A content, to emerge as well.
Make sure you're listed in all the local services like Yahoo Local and Google Places. Maybe you can provide fantastic answers on Quora. There's no debate links are a big signal of quality to search engines, so you need to know your ABCs.
I like to look at the kinds of questions people are asking on Yahoo Answers and on Twitter. Growth. One of the most important factors for any online business. Increasing relevant traffic often correlates with an increased bottom line.
Make sure your Bing and Yahoo Local listings are up to date. Write a "how-to" article that addresses your niche for Wikihow.com or Answers.com. I do like most of the answers on the two sites mentioned above.
Yahoo Yahoo Yahoo search has a very different look from the others. It offers a tab-based interface that displays “trending now,” followed by a series of tappable search queries topping the Yahoo search trends at the time.
Yahoo OK, Bing powers Yahoo's organic result, so naturally Nextag is the fourth result. However, Yahoo's search results are even more cluttered up with ads, shopping results, and even local results and a map.
