Comments on: Yahoo! Launches New Crawler

By: My Money Note

My Money Note — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:58:33 +0000

Yahoo! Engineered a New Spider…

Yahoo! has launched a new Spider, called Yahoo! Slurp, earlier this week. The new spider will:Crawl fasterMore efficient at visiting websitesReduce bandwidth co……

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:38:25 +0000

Maybe that explains the sudden decrease in Yahoo traffic my best-earning site started experiencing about 9 days ago… I’m still watching anxiously, hoping it will recover. *sob*

By: allaboutryder

allaboutryder — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:24:54 +0000

You are spot on about the spelling driving the traffic. Also, misspelled celebrity names- bang on every time!

By: A Samuel

A Samuel — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:43:17 +0000

Darren,

In my experience, Yahoo SEO is all about links and anchor text.

The more quality links with targeted anchor text you get the better the rankings, this is also something MSN has liked in the past. So if you want to rank in Yahoo for “widgets” for example, use link anchor text like:

widgets, blue widgets, widget fun, more great widgets etc…

Just my 2cents

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:49:18 +0000

Yes, the “old” crawler was indeed called Slurp. Perhaps they meant to say something like: “This is a new version of Slurp.”

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:26:24 +0000

I still haven’t notice any changes.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:49:12 +0000

Yep, I’ve noticed that I’m getting much more traffic from Yahoo on one of my websites (it’s not a blog).
I haven’t notice any changes on my blogs. 90% -Google, 5% – Yahoo, 5% – MSN.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:48:29 +0000

That’s pretty weird. I too had Slurp scouring my site at least seven months ago, yet the blog post above is quite clearly on an official Yahoo blog.

Perhaps it’s just a new version with the same name and somebody at Yahoo got their wires crossed.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:54:26 +0000

I have definitely noticed a significant increase in my Yahoo traffic. I have never been properly indexed in Yahoo – but they to be making up for lost time. However, the increase started early in the month so I am not entirely sure that this is the result of the new slurp or the old one. Perhaps it’s just a coincidence.

By: Quais

Quais — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:46:20 +0000

Yeah I had heard of Slurp quite long ago. There is an article about Slurp on Jim Hedger’s blog (news.stepforth.com/) that dates back to Novermber 29th of 2004. And interestingly even Yahoo calls it a new crawler.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:23:34 +0000

Slurp is new? This is a bit of a shock to me, it’s been indexing me for months now. What was the previuos version of Yahoo!’s spider called?