Off-Page Optimization ’ Category

Yahoo-Bing Search Update & the Best Linkdomain Replacement

Yahoo has been implementing some very major changes on its search architecture starting this week — Yahoo search in North America is now powered by Bing. This is in part of Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance 10 year deal which was closed last July 29, 2009 to take on search giant Google.

Yahoo Linkdomain query not working

I havent heard any news lately about Yahoo and Bing partnership, until one of my search queries which I mainly depended on for gathering prospect edu/gov links were not working in Yahoo! Search US just of today.

1. linkdomain:competingsite.com +site:.edu -site:.com -site:competingsite.com
2. linkdomain:competingsite.com +site:.gov -site:.com -site:competingsite.com

If you enter the above queries in http://search.yahoo.com and http://ca.search.yahoo.com, no results will be found. Take notice of the “Powered By Bing” text on the footer section for each result page.

Finding the Most Relevant Contact for Link Request

In order of priority

  1. Use emails listed in “Link page” , or follow any links for contact forms or links which the site admin suggested for link suggestions.
    • For link suggestions, email admin@web.com.
    • Contact admin@web.com for comments and feedbacks.
    • admin@web.com (even any email ad which the ADMIN listed in link page)
    • For more information, e-mail admin@web.com
    • Use contact form(with link to http://www.web.com/contact-link-request) for link recommendations
    • Email found in sidebar of link page
      E) sbdc@tcnj.edu
    • Found in footer section of Link Page
      “Suggest links, articles or ideas to include on this site”
      Note: Following this will lead to https://jedi.tcnj.edu/webteam/cgi-bin/formgenie/formgenie.pl?form=11520 which is a form for link request