Crazy Yahoo Update
Just when I thought Yahoo had started to like me, yesterday Acne-Vitamins basically dropped off into oblivion in the Yahoo serps. I had slowly been moving up through the ranks and was finally number one for my domain name and other closely related keywords. Now the site is totally gone from the results. My backlinks dropped from about 700 to less than 90, and indexed pages dropped from about 80 to 3 (ha!). Not sure what’s going on with this update, but on the bright side it seems all my competitors (and basically all relevant sites) have taken a hit as well. I can’t imagine it staying like this as the serps have basically been replaced with eBay items and Blogs (not this one, of course). Hopefully the major changes I made to the navigation-link structure havent set off any alarms (don’t know why they would).
Update: Yahoo seems to be shifting back to normal (I hope!). My site is still a far cry from where it was, but the indexed pages at Acne-Vitamins have jumped up from 3 to about 25, and I’m back in the search results for at least my less-competitive serch terms. It seems every other webmaster on the net was also freaking out, so it’s unlikely to have anything to do with the site changes. Just a very jumbled search engine update…
